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Manchester United: The Biography: The Complete Story of the World's Greatest Football Club |  | Author: Jim White
Publisher: Sphere
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Pages: 464
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Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5 x 1.3
ISBN: 0751539112
Dewey Decimal Number: 796
EAN: 9780751539110
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Publication Date: September 3, 2009
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* The story of the biggest football club in the world. * Covers everything from the birth of the club through to the 2008 Champions' League final in Moscow.
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 Amazing August 15, 2010
TrueRedDevil
Very thorough history of Manchester United, a must read for any fan wanting to know about the clubs history.
10 out of 5 for this book - 20 out of 5 even
Very very impressed
 MANCHESTER'S BEST EXPORT WERE FOUNDED BY A SCOUSER LOL. April 2, 2010
Jay (London)
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
Man United were founded by a scouser lol.
The parish was the birthplace of the Newton Heath Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Football Club which was established in 1878 and later become the world famous Manchester United. It began life as a football team formed by Frederick Attock, a Liverpudlian who was a superintendent engineer of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway(L&YR). The team played on a pitch at North Road, and were initially outfitted in green and gold jerseys. By 1892, they had been admitted to the Football League. The club remained in the area until 1893, when it moved to new premises at Bank Street in nearby Clayton. The name was changed to Manchester United Football Club in 1902.
United - Manchester's other soap opera? March 26, 2010
Bantam Dave (Bradford, UK)
As this book shows Coronation Street is not the only soap opera based in Manchester, because not far away from that famous street is Old Trafford, the home of Manchester United, a football club whose history reads like the product of the minds of over imaginative scriptwriters.
Started as a means of recreation for railway workers United's rise to current status has been marked by more than their fair share of struggle and tragedy. During United's history players have gone on strike for more money (money is a dominant and recurrent theme in United's history), their ground has been rendered unusable due to wartime bombing and even today there is an uneasy peace as not too many people are happy with the clubs present owners, the Glazer family. Over and above all of this is the Munich air disaster, in which many players and back room staff were amongst those killed.
The story of Manchester United is also littered with many wonderful characters; players like the rebellious, toothpick chewing Billy Meredith, the bald-headed Irishman Johnny Carey, who looked more like a bank manager than a footballer, the teenage colossus Duncan Edwards, whose early death deprived the world of one of football's greatest talents and the `holy trinity' of Denis Law, George Best and Bobby Charlton. More than any of these though, probably the two most influential people in the history of Manchester United are two Scots, Sir Matt Busby and Sir Alex Ferguson, managers who both in their own way made United into the worldwide phenomenon they are today.
With so much material to call on it is no surprise that this book is an enthralling read. Obviously a fan and therefore definitely biased, Jim White nevertheless makes an excellent job of tying all the information together to produce a book that should be of interest fans of all football clubs, not just Manchester United.
Excellent November 25, 2009
N. Brett (Wiltshire, England)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a well paced an interesting history of Manchester United. The author is a fan, but tries very hard to remain objective throughout this as he takes us from United's origins as the "Heathens" through to the Champions League win over Chelsea in Moscow. The evolving history of the club and Old Trafford is told with many interesting anecdotes and good insight into all the characters involved. As a fan myself I have read quite a few books, but none have covered the history as well as this one. I particularily enjoyed the early years and White's chapter on "The flowers of Manchester" was both moving and poignant.
There are some very minor errors (as other reviewers have pointed out) but they do not detract from a book that should be of interest to both fans and people interested in English football. What the author does so well is spend the right amount of time on things, he doesn't regurgitate George Best's history, or go through pages of statistics, he hits the important notes and fleshes them out with perfect pace.
I picked this up thinking I would dip into it over a couple of weeks, but ended up finishing it in two days. Recommended.
red review February 13, 2009
Mr. Alex Pylypiw
Manchester United-Autobiography by Jim White is a fantastic history of the greatest football club in the world.Written in White's unique style and laced with dry wit it is a must for all football fans despite several statistical errors.
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