The Golden Years: Hibernian in the Days of the Famous Five - Hardcover

Wright, Tom

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1859837883 ISBN 13: 9781859837887

Verlag: DB Publishing, 2010

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The Golden Years: Hibernian in the Days of the Famous Five is the story of a football team that came back from the brink to become the most successful side in the entire country during the immediate post-war years. Under the leadership of a sometimes brash but charismatic chairman, Hibernian would burst to the forefront of Scottish football during what was arguably the game's finest-ever period. With the game experiencing an unprecedented post-war crowd boom, these were indeed exciting times, and there was no more excitement to be found on a football field than at Easter Road. Fronted by a forward line who would in time earn the sobriquet 'The Famous Five', Hibernian would win three League Championships, narrowly miss out on another only on goal average, and another by a solitary point, all inside a six-year period, to become the most successful side by far in the club's long and illustrious history. Although many thousands of column inches have been devoted to the magical quintet and their teammates, this is the first book to define the period in such detail. From the enterprising chairman Harry Swan joining the board in 1931 to Willie Ormond, the last surviving member of the five, retiring from the playing side of the game in 1961, it is all here. Inside you can read about the great games, the financial disputes, the transfers, the modern advent of floodlit football, the introduction of competitive European football, the perceived danger to the game from the television cameras, and much more. Quite obviously the successful Hibernian side of the period was about much more than a celebrated forward line, but perhaps the greatest accolade that can ever be paid to the Famous Five is that today, almost 60 years after they last played together, even the youngest of supporters still know the names Gordon Smith, Bobby Johnstone, Lawrie Reilly, Eddie Turnbull and Willie Ormond.

Biografía del autor

TOM WRIGHT is married to his wife Liz, has two daughters and three young grandchildren, all of whom he fervently hopes will follow him in supporting the club. Taken to his first game aged nine, a friendly against Leicester City at Easter Road in February 1957, Tom did not realise at the time that football, and Hibs in particular, would become such a major influence in his life from that day on. Former secretary of the Hibs Former Players' Association, he is now the official club historian and curator of the Hibernian Historical Trust, a supporter-led initiative whose aims are to protect, preserve and promote the proud history of Hibernian Football Club.

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• Verlag: DB Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1859837883
• ISBN 13: 9781859837887
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 192