No Glossing Over It: How Football Cheated Leeds United

Between 1964 and 1992, Leeds United won eleven fabulous trophies, but the team were runners-up just as often. They missed out on many more titles and cups, not least club football's greatest prize, the European Cup, in 1975.

In No Glossing Over It, lifelong Leeds United fan Gary Edwards reveals why the club has dramatically lost out on victory in many of these competitions and how it has been the victim of a pattern of serial abuse by the footballing authorities - most recently seen in the unprecedented 15-point sanction meted out at the start of the 2007-08 season.

Featuring the views of former Leeds players and managers, as well as top-flight referees and diehard fans, No Glossing Over It examines the injustices that have befallen Leeds United and sheds new light on the shocking events that have long rankled with the club's supporters.

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No Glossing Over It: How Football Cheated Leeds United

Between 1964 and 1992, Leeds United won eleven fabulous trophies, but the team were runners-up just as often. They missed out on many more titles and cups, not least club football's greatest prize, the European Cup, in 1975.

In No Glossing Over It, lifelong Leeds United fan Gary Edwards reveals why the club has dramatically lost out on victory in many of these competitions and how it has been the victim of a pattern of serial abuse by the footballing authorities - most recently seen in the unprecedented 15-point sanction meted out at the start of the 2007-08 season.

Featuring the views of former Leeds players and managers, as well as top-flight referees and diehard fans, No Glossing Over It examines the injustices that have befallen Leeds United and sheds new light on the shocking events that have long rankled with the club's supporters.

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No Glossing Over It: How Football Cheated Leeds United

No Glossing Over It: How Football Cheated Leeds United

by Gary Edwards
No Glossing Over It: How Football Cheated Leeds United

No Glossing Over It: How Football Cheated Leeds United

by Gary Edwards

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Overview

Between 1964 and 1992, Leeds United won eleven fabulous trophies, but the team were runners-up just as often. They missed out on many more titles and cups, not least club football's greatest prize, the European Cup, in 1975.

In No Glossing Over It, lifelong Leeds United fan Gary Edwards reveals why the club has dramatically lost out on victory in many of these competitions and how it has been the victim of a pattern of serial abuse by the footballing authorities - most recently seen in the unprecedented 15-point sanction meted out at the start of the 2007-08 season.

Featuring the views of former Leeds players and managers, as well as top-flight referees and diehard fans, No Glossing Over It examines the injustices that have befallen Leeds United and sheds new light on the shocking events that have long rankled with the club's supporters.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781780571461
Publisher: Mainstream Publishing Company, Limited
Publication date: 08/04/2011
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 240
File size: 335 KB

About the Author

Gary Edwards is the author of two football-related memoirs, Paint It White: Following Leeds Everywhere and Leeds United: The Second Coat. He writes for Leeds Leeds Leeds, the official magazine of Leeds United, and for the club's match-day programmes.

Table of Contents

Foreword Eddie Gray 13

1 An Unfair Game 15

2 The Middle Man 20

3 Doubting Thomas 25

4 Mr Pickwick 34

5 A Winter's Tale or Two 42

6 Grass Routes 55

7 Double Trouble 69

8 The Dictator 76

9 The Italian Fix 87

10 The Lure of the Lira 97

11 A Town Called Paris 106

12 The Damned Truth 113

13 The Press Gang 126

14 Don Revie: Part 1 139

15 Don Revie: Part 2 147

16 Don Revie: Part 3 159

17 Don Revie: Part 4 171

18 Beaten Hands Down 181

19 New Century, Same Old Story 188

20 Marching on Together 213

Revielogue 224

Bibliography 239

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