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Down Memory Lane
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Product Description
Ever since Fever Pitch there have been a handful of accomplished personal accounts of an individual’s love-affair with their football club. They have all followed in the footsteps of Nick Hornby’s classic, seen through a one dimensional fan’s perspective. This account is different. Very different. Excitingly different. Here, Harry Harris, arguably the nation’s Number 1 football story getter for a generation, gives a fan’s view of life as a Spurs supporter for 50 years, but with a unique insight into players, managers and personalities behind the scenes gleaned through his unique inside track on events within a football club with his unrivalled access. Harry has been so influential within White Hart Lane that he has advised and influenced many a Spurs chairman, including Sir Alan Sugar and Irving Scholar. Harry also reveals the remarkable and sensational behind the scenes secrets of takeovers and player transfers. This book is a must for all Spurs fans who have followed the club since the Glory, Glory days of the 1960s, and for those who want to know what really made Bill Nicholson tick, but also for any football fan interested in the truth about the power struggles being mirrored today at clubs like Manchester City, Manchester United, Arsenal and Portsmouth. Harry has rubbed shoulders with Pelé, Maradona, Johan Cruyff and George Best, but also includes Glenn Hoddle, Ossie Ardiles, Gary Mabbutt, Paul Gascoigne, Gary Lineker and Steve Perryman, among his all time favourite footballers and personal friends with interesting accounts of their feats on the field and what they are really like off it. Down Memory Lane is a riveting account of one man’s on and off love affair and its nostalgic approach is matched with behind the scenes knowledge of players, directors and owners. With exclusive interviews with former managers Gerry Francis, Glenn Hoddle, Ossie Ardiles, Paul Miller and many more including the new manager Harry Redknapp, Down Memory Lane is sure to become another bestseller from Harry Harris!
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #65227 in Books
- Published on: 2009-03-02
- Original language: English
- Binding: Hardcover
- 304 pages
Editorial Reviews
From the Back Cover
Ever since Fever Pitch there have been a handful of accomplished personal accounts of an individual’s love-affair with their football club. They have all followed in the footsteps of Nick Hornby’s classic, seen through a one dimensional fan’s perspective. This account is different. Very different. Excitingly different. Here, Harry Harris, arguably the nation’s Number 1 football story getter for a generation, gives a fan’s view of life as a Spurs supporter for 50 years, but with a unique insight into players, managers and personalities behind the scenes gleaned through his unique inside track on events within a football club with his unrivalled access. Harry has been so influential within White Hart Lane that he has advised and influenced many a Spurs chairman, including Sir Alan Sugar and Irving Scholar. Harry also reveals the remarkable and sensational behind the scenes secrets of takeovers and player transfers. This book is a must for all Spurs fans who have followed the club since the Glory, Glory days of the 1960s, and for those who want to know what really made Bill Nicholson tick, but also for any football fan interested in the truth about the power struggles being mirrored today at clubs like Manchester City, Manchester United, Arsenal and Portsmouth. Harry has rubbed shoulders with Pelé, Maradona, Johan Cruyff and George Best, but also includes Glenn Hoddle, Ossie Ardiles, Gary Mabbutt, Paul Gascoigne, Gary Lineker and Steve Perryman, among his all time favourite footballers and personal friends with interesting accounts of their feats on the field and what they are really like off it. Down Memory Lane is a riveting account of one man’s on and off love affair and its nostalgic approach is matched with behind the scenes knowledge of players, directors and owners. With exclusive interviews with former managers Gerry Francis, Glenn Hoddle, Ossie Ardiles, Paul Miller and many more including the new manager Harry Redknapp, Down Memory Lane is sure to become another bestseller from Harry Harris!
Customer Reviews
A truly dreadful book
With Chapters entitled "How I signed Chris Waddle for Spurs" and "How I Pursueded Daniel Levy to buy Spurs" it gives you an idea of the ego maniac we are dealing with here. It is also full of historical inaccuracies, including one where the so called author stated Gary Mabbutt was the first person to score at both ends in the FA Cup Final. This man is supposed to be a Spurs fan and yet forgets our most famous cup final win in 1981 was because Tommy Hutchinson managed the feet a full 6 years before Gary Mabbutt. Maybe it was because it was not in reply that everyone remembers but in the first game.
If this book was on any other subject apart from Spurs I would take it to the Charity shop.
He has spent his entire life writing for down market publications and has produced a very down market book.
This is a lazy, poorly written and badly constructed book.
Disappointing book
A massively disappointing book, especially given the writer's unprecedented access to Spurs' players, managers, and directors over many decades. The book's structure is flawed, and is carelessly written, and far too much an ego trip for the writer. The author has a fine track record as a journalist, and I expected many crackling insights and a sense of historical perspective on a fine football club. This guy could write the definitive history of Spurs if he could detach himself properly from his subject. Maybe one day he will. But will I live long enough?
Harry's Delusions
This is typical Harry Harris stuff. He has advised and ran Tottenham Hotspur from behind the scene's for close on 40 years now.
Who is Harry trying to kid. This book is a figment of his imagination,except for the negative input he had in the Sugar/Venables affair, when he should have minded his own business.
Instead he felt the need to hang Venables out to dry, and only because he had the tools (Daily Mirror) to do so and didn't like the man.
Still cannot see 'to this day' what this saga had to do with Harry.
