Summer Reading List: The Glory Game

Periodically during the summer, I will be featuring a book about the sport that I intend to reread in the near future

In working and writing about football, I’m constantly learning and evolving in my views and perspectives. That comes with age and experience and I am finding many books that I read about football 10, 15 or 20 years ago need to be reread to have the proper context or more perspective.

With Spurs recent European triumph, and my Beatles succession that led me to one logical book to start my orientation with… The Glory Game.

What links Spurs and the Beatles…well Hunter Davies does. He was the groups official biographer and his 1968 work entitled The Beatles: The Authorised Biography remains a work that is poured over almost 60 years later.

Four years later, Davies The Glory Game about Spurs magical march to the 1972 UEFA Cup Final where they defeated Wolves in the first all-English European final was at the time the first truly “intellectual” mass-produced book about the sport in the English language.

So the book all these later especially in an era of club-focused documentaries and borderline propaganda films feels like a meaningful reread.

And therefore it is at the top of my summer reading list.