Bobby Moore: The Man in Full, by Matt Dickinson
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The definitive biography of England's greatest soccer player and World Cup winning captain by one of the country's most-respected soccer writers "Immaculate footballer – Imperial defender – Immortal hero of 1966... National treasure – Master of Wembley – Lord of the game – Captain extraordinary – Gentleman for all time" So reads the inscription beneath Bobby Moore’s statue at Wembley stadium. Since his death at 51 from pancreatic cancer, this has been the accepted view of a British national hero. But how much do we really know of England’s only World Cup-winning skipper? We know that Bobby Moore was an extraordinary captain and defender, but alongside his legendary feats on the field he knew scandal, death threats, bankruptcy business, and the sack. He divorced after a long affair, was rumored to have friends in the underworld, and he loved a drink. The tragedy of his life was to be ignored by the sports world in his latter years and to drift into obscurity. After he applied to be England manager, the FA didn’t even bother to send a rejection letter. There was no job in the game and, famously, no knighthood. As well as the undeniable moments of glory, this long overdue, definitive biography doesn't shy away from the grit. Tracing his journey from the East End to a pedestal outside Wembley Stadium, it looks, for the first time, at Moore’s life from all sides, through the testimony of teammates, rivals, family, and friends. What was Moore like to play with, to drink with? What was he like as a husband, father, opponent, and captain? A struggling manager and a failed businessman? This is the story of an Essex boy who became the patron saint of English soccer, revealing a lifetime of intrigue, triumph, and tragedy in between.
Bobby Moore: The Man in Full, by Matt Dickinson- Amazon Sales Rank: #1276125 in Books
- Brand: Dickinson, Matt
- Published on: 2015-09-01
- Released on: 2015-06-08
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 7.80" h x .99" w x 5.10" l, .81 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 336 pages
Review "Brilliant" -- Oliver Holt Daily Mirror "Devastating. No ghosted autobiography can match the nuanced insight of the latest book on Bobby Moore, a hero flawed by alcohol" -- Ian Herbert Independent "Well-researched and written, this book brings us the real Bobby Moore" -- Matthew Syed The Times "A tragic tale, admirably researched and poignantly told" -- Nick Pitt Sunday Times "It's an immaculately researched voyage of discovery into a footballing enigma. We'll never know the man in full, but this comes close" -- Ben East Metro
About the Author Matt Dickinson is chief soccer correspondent for the Times. He won Young Sports Writer of the Year (1993) and Sports Journalist of the Year (2000). He is most famous for conducting the interview with England Manager Glenn Hoddle which led to the latter’s resignation.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. but that's not to say it's a bad book. Far from it By The Big F A lightweight book on a huge man, but that's not to say it's a bad book. Far from it. Moore wasn't the kind of guy to open himself up to exposure, so Dickinson gets his stories from those who knew Moore and we get a fresh insight into one of England's few footballing legends (if you think Wayne Rooney's a legend, then you probably should read this book). Dickinson fills in as many gaps as he can without the help of his subject matter and we get a good insight into Moore and the events that dominated his life. Ultimately, it's a sad book. The glory days contrast sharply with his life after football. But Bobby Moore didn't achieve greatness through his untimely death; he was a footballing god and this book goes some way to reminding us of that.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. The title of this book would be more honest if it was followed by a question mark as it is clearly not the Man In Full By stormymonday The truth is Moore was essentially unknowable to most of the people who met him as even the author admits at the end.The book does not do a bad job of outlining Moore's career and setting out some of the footballing, financial and personal issues faced both by him, his teams and his managers. However, at the end of the day it is a journalistic biography that relies heavily on anecdotes, quotes taken from other players biographies and the work of other journalists who knew Moore personally and wrote about him in the 1960s and 1970s. Obviously it is clear Dickinson is far too young to have met his subject but it would have been nice to have had some proper footnotes to identify where and when some of the information in this biography originated. The bibliography does give a clue but clearly the suspicion is that some of the book is based on recent recollections of events that are decades old. Moreover, the book is strangely light on hard statistical information about Moore's career, If you want to know how many games Moore played for his clubs or what number of goals he scored you will not find it here. Nor does the book really cover the day to day details of Moore's career. If you read this book it would appear that Moore was never injured as a player because the matter is scarcely mentioned. This is in stark contrast with a work such as Hunter Davies Glory Game where the threat of injury and sudden career termination hangs like an ever present Sword of Damocles over all professional players. The latter work makes clear that many footballers of the 1970s became disenchanted with the game the longer they played particularly as they discovered that the rewards of game was never going to make even the most famous of them financially secure. In that context Moore's increasing disillusion at West Ham in the late 1960s and early 1970s is more understandable as also were some his woeful attempts to make money outside the game. There is no doubt that Moore would have probably fared much better financially if he had accepted Mark McCormack's offer to let IMG manage his business affairs but he was doubtless poorly advised by some of his so called 'friends' He would probably also had more productive second half to his football career if he had managed to quit West Ham in the the mid 1960s and gone to another club as he clearly wanted to do. Since this was not an era of free contracts it is hardly Moore's fault that West Ham would not release him. Given that impasse it is not unsurprising his enthusiasm for the domestic game diminished as he got olderWith regard to Moore's boozing he was not the only player of that era prone to that activity though doubtless he would have been able to hold his own with other legendary contemporary drinkers such as Peter Osgood. The author gives the impression that the booze culture was somehow particularly exceptional at West Ham when Moore was captain though even a cursory glance at the footballing accounts of the era would confirm it was flourishing strongly in nearly all major London clubs. This is one of the areas in which the author fails to put his subject in its proper geographical and historical context. Another is the account of Moore's obsession with neatness, tidiness and order. Now there is no doubt that Moore took this to extremes but he was hardly alone amongst white working class males in the East End of the early 1960s in being concerned about looking immaculately turned out and wishing to make a statement about his identity through his appearance. I also fail to see what relevance the fact that the pub where Booby and Tina Moore had their wedding reception now has Karaoke nights and a big screen football TV has to do with an event that was staged there 50 years earlier. I think all one needs to know about the Cambridge University educated Mr Dickinsons attitude to the working class Moore is revealed in that one aside. In this respect the author merely reveals the yawning gap in both time and social class between himself and his subject.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Bobby Moore - The Man in Full By Peter O - HKG The Man in Full. This, I thought was to be real expose of Bobby Moore. The critics/reviews were giving us tasty morsels!!! All about Bobby's business indiscretions, his boozing, his aloofness, his losing all his money, his oh too coolness to the point of lacking passion. But after reading this book, Bobby Moore was (and still is) my hero. A brilliant footballer in spite of a lack of pace, couldn't head a ball, & mostly one footed. But he could read a game that split second before anyone else could and anticipated almost everything before it happened and cleaned it all up - no fuss, no posing. A "that's my job" way of performing. Hard for many to get to know the man really well but a football genius in his own way. The perfect captain of England under Ramsey inspite of a few "tiff"s. So he was OCD about some things, obsessively neat. So he liked a booze up and drank heavily at times- not I believe alcoholically. So he wasn't always one of the lads, sometimes quietly aloof but often in with drinking expeditions at night (naughty), standing at the bar smiling. Big deal. This man was possibly one of, in not the greatest, English footballer we've had since the 1960's. However he was treated disgracefully. Bobbie's treatment by Greenwood, West Ham United and England was a disgrace. He was left on his own in Colombia to sort up a trumped up charge of stealing a bracelet. His manager no where to be seen - gone to Mexico. With all stress that must caused him, he handled it like true man & a few days after being released played one the games of his life against Brazil and Pele. Further, his subsequent treatment by Ron Greenwood, West Ham United, and the England FA was yet again disgusting. West Ham, who have now have named one of their stands the "Bobbie Moore Stand" once told Bobby to leave the ground during a home match when he was there talking with Harry Rednapp. He''d arrived after the start and had wandered in and went over to Redknapp in the stand for a cuppa tea. An official was sent over to ask him to leave as he didn't have a ticket. (He never went back and who could blame him). Jeez" what a bunch West Ham's board must be). Long overdue recognition from the English FA eventually came (many years after his death) & Bobby now has statue at Wembley (wrong foot - left - on the ball? He was mostly right footed, but never mind, let's not quibble). So the book was pretty good but if you're looking for "dirt" on The Man in Full, I for the life of me thought most it was petty and irrelevant. There are no big dramas about the way Booby Moore lived his life. There's tragedy yes as a good honest decent man had his amazing talents exploited to his own financial and personal detriment. Plus the lack of loyalty & recognition from his Employers" was a disgrace. Must be some very "proud" officials out there who were involved in this. The nobheads,
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