Does Your Rabbi Know You're Here?: The Story of English Football's Forgotten Tribe

Does Your Rabbi Know You're Here?: The Story of English Football's Forgotten Tribe

by Anthony Clavane
Does Your Rabbi Know You're Here?: The Story of English Football's Forgotten Tribe

Does Your Rabbi Know You're Here?: The Story of English Football's Forgotten Tribe

by Anthony Clavane

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Overview

Ever since the children of penniless immigrants caught the train from Whitechapel to White Hart Lane - to be greeted with the refrain: 'Does Your Rabbi Know You're Here?' - this forgotten tribe have helped to shape the Beautiful Game.

In telling the fascinating lives of these largely unsung trailblazers, Clavane uncovers a hidden history of Jewish involvement in English football. From Louis Bookman, the first Jew to play in England's top division, to the pugnacious winger Mark Lazarus, whose last-gasp goal won the 1967 League Cup for QPR, to shady figures like One-Armed Lou, a ticket tout who never told the story of his missing limb the same way twice, through to the businessmen who helped form the breakaway Premier League, and in the process changed the English game for ever.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781623655396
Publisher: Quercus
Publication date: 08/19/2014
Sold by: Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format: eBook
Pages: 320
File size: 4 MB

About the Author

Anthony Clavane was born in Leeds. He started life as a history teacher and is now chief sports writer for the Sunday Mirror. He has won Press Gazette Feature Writer of the Year and BT Regional Sportswriter of the Year awards. His previous book Promised Land was named Sports Book of the Year by the National Sporting Club and the Radio 2 Book Club.
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