End of Innocence

Tim Quelch

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Jimmy Greaves was England's most prodigious goalscorer of the 1950s and 1960s. In his autobiography, Greavsie, he writes that the 1959/60 English football season was the final year of football's age of innocence. He saw the open, attacking football of the 1950s give way to a much more defensively minded game. It was an era which also saw the advent of the tracksuit manager and specialist coaches. An End of Innocence examines English football in the 1950s and a transition through the 1960s; looking at the international and domestic landscape, through the lens of a selection of teams. It considers different managerial styles, team formations, coaching and training methods, and the developments in tactics, diet and health care; as well as a significant change in footballers' lifestyles, that came after the abolition of the maximum wage in 1961. Set against a backdrop of social and political change, An End of Innocence reflects a changing nation and a game that was evolving, and the lasting impact that has had upon English football, its players and supporters.

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• Publié par: Pitch Publishing
• Date de parution: 22 février 2021
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781785319020
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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First published by Pitch Publishing, 2021
Pitch Publishing
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Durrington
BN13 3QZ
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Tim Quelch, 2021
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Contents
Thanks
Introduction
Part One: Absolute Beginners, The Way We Were Before The 60s Swung
1. Lost Supremacy 1945-1950
2. Back to the Future : Push and Run, 1950/51
3. A Lion Roars in Vienna, 1952
4. When the Legend Becomes Fact Print the Legend : TheMatthews Final
5. An Entirely Different Game : The Magical Magyars
6. Management Styles and Methods During the 50s
7. Team Formations and Tactics in the 50s
8. Coaching and Training Methods in the 50s
9. Set Play Ruses
10. Balls and Pitches
11. A Footballer s Diet in the 50s
12. Footballers Medical Care in the 50s
13. Footballers Pay and Conditions of Service in the 50s
14. Starting Out As a Professional Footballer
15. So Much for the Beautiful Game ! Hard Men in the 50s
16. Players Contact with Supporters and the Public in the 50s
17. Code of Conduct
18. Relationships with the Press
19. Moving On
20. How the 50s Game Compares with Today
21. The Snarl of the Underdog in the 50s
22. Valiant Vale: Port Vale s Amazing FA Cup Run, 1953/54
23. The Winter of our Content: York City s Incredible FA Cup Run, 1954/55
24. Anger and After: Teddy Boys in the 50s
25. The Busby Babes
26. Tottenham Hotspur v Manchester United: First Division, 24 November 1956
27. Aston Villa v Manchester United: FA Cup Final, 4 May 1957
28. Arsenal v Manchester United: First Division, 1 February 1958
29. Pen Pictures of the Busby Babes by John Doherty
30. Post-Munich Manchester United
31. Charlton Athletic v Huddersfield Town: Second Division, 21 December 1957
32. More World Cup Disappointment: 1958
33. Chelsea v Wolverhampton Wanderers: First Division, 30 August 1958
34. Norwich City: Canary Commotion - City s Famous 1958/59 FA Cup Run
35. Never Had It So Good ? Bringing on Back the Bad Times
36. West Ham United v Huddersfield Town: FA Cup Third Round, 13 January 1960
Part Two: 1959/60, The Watershed Season
37. The 1959/60 Facts, Figures and Commentary
Part Three: The Shock of the New , You Say You Want a Revolution
38. Glory, Glory Hallelujah: Double-Winning Spurs
39. Tottenham Hotspur v Burnley: First Division, 3 December 1960
40. England s Spectacular, If Brief, Revival in 1960/61
41. Freeing the Soccer Slaves
42. What the Soccer Slaves Earned in 1959
43. Beyond the Fringe : Deference in Retreat
44. The Rise and Fall of Ipswich Town 1961/62-1963/64
45. The Case For the Defence: 1962/63
46. Spurs Conquer Europe: European Cup Winners Cup 1963
47. Christmas Crackers: the 1963 Boxing Day Goal Rush
48. Preston North End v West Ham United: FA Cup Final, 2 May 1964
49. Liverpool v Arsenal: First Division, 22 August 1964
50. Youthquake: My Generation , 1964
51. Alf Ramsey s World Cup Winning Formula
52. Nothing is Real: Tomorrow Never Knows , 1966
53. The Lisbon Lions : Style Versus Sterility, European Cup Final 1967
54. Blue Moon Rising: Spurs v Manchester City, First Division, 4 May 1968
55. Paint It Black : A Chance Encounter in a Divided Land, 4 May 1968
56. Manchester United s Famous 1968 European Cup Victory in Quotes
57. Street Fighting Man : Football Disorder in the 50s and 60s
58. This Is the Modern World : Coaching, Training, and Tactics at Two 60s Clubs
59. Northern Exposure: the Decline and Fall of Burnley
60. Burnley v West Bromwich Albion: First Division, 21 March 1970
61. World Cup Willies 1970
62. Alan Brown: A Man For All Seasons
63. Leeds v Everton: First Division, 23 November 1968
64. Liverpool v Wolverhampton Wanderers: First Division, 5 April 1969
65. City Slickers v Country Bumpkins: League Cup Final, 15 March 1969
66. A Rough Guide to Unruly English Football in the 60s
67. Chelsea v Leeds United: FA Cup Final, 11 April 1970
68. The State of English Football During the 60s from Ten Perspectives
Last Words
References
In memory of David Hughes and Michael Jennings
THANKS
THIS BOOK is dedicated to two late friends who suffered with an incurable lung disease. All my royalties will be donated to the British Lung Foundation, a particularly worthy cause in these critical times. Thank you to everyone who has helped me in writing this book.
Many former players and managers have assisted, including Ray Pointer, John Collins, Bob Seith, Jimmy Robson, Lawrie McMenemy, Jimmy McIlroy, Keith Tucker, John Angus, Ken Ballard, Brian Pilkington, Alan Ballard, Trevor Meredith, Adam Blacklaw, Martin Dobson, Geoff Nulty, Arthur Bellamy and authors, Ivan Ponting, John Doherty, Dave Thomas, Mark Metcalf and Jonathon Wilson. Thanks also to all at Pitch - Paul, Jane, Gareth, Dean, Duncan and Graham. Your help has been invaluable. Thanks to website owners Tony Scholes of Up the Clarets, the Mighty Whites and Chris Fort of York City South supporters website www.yorkcitysouth.co.uk, plus national and local press and a wide range of books, journals and video footage. All sources are listed in the reference section at the end of this book. Where possible I have sought copyright clearance but, in a few instances, it has not been possible to identify ownership because of the age of the material or image. Please accept my apology if I have inadvertently breached copyright. If anyone wishes to pursue this further, please refer this to my publishers in the first instance.
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INTRODUCTION
IN HIS autobiography Greavsie , Jimmy Greaves suggested that the 1959/60 season brought football s age of innocence to an end, with open, attacking football giving way to defensiveness, aided and abetted by specialist coaches and tacticians. In An End of Innocence , the author looks at English football in the 50s and 60s: the management styles; tactics; coaching and training methods; with a wide range of illustrative games reflecting upon how open or insular we were. Some of the questions considered in this book are:
How did England change as a country in the 40s, 50s and 60s?
Did any of these changes affect English football?
Was the 50s a time of innocence for English football or a time of naivety, insularity, myopia, prejudice, and complacency, hastening the decline of the national team?
Was English football slow to learn its World Cup and Hungarian lessons?
Was coaching, training and tactical awareness good enough in the 50s?
How and why did English football shift its emphasis from attack to defence?
How did 60s coaching and tactics turn England into World Cup winners?
How did British clubs conquer Europe? Did Euroscepticism ever impede them?
How did the minnows beat the biggest and best English clubs in the 50s and 60s?
Did English professional football change forever and for the better in the 60s?
Did some liberated soccer slaves become well-paid celebrities during the 60s?
Did this change have any impact upon rising hooliganism?
How did the English youth movements of the 50s and 60s generally affect football?
Did 60s football become too rough? Was this worse than in the 50s?
How did 60s economic decline affect the health of once famous English clubs?
Was television a force for good or bad for English football clubs?
Who were the main movers and shakers in 50s and 60s English football and why?
Was the 1959/60 English football season the watershed Jimmy Greaves claimed?
How healthy did the English game appear to be at the end of the 60s?
Tim Quelch May 2020
PART ONE Absolute Beginners THE WAY WE WERE BEFORE THE 60s SWUNG
1. LOST SUPREMACY 1945-1950
GREAT BRITAIN concluded its part in the Second World War battered, barren and bankrupt. After suffering six years of trauma and hardship its working people were eager for something brighter and fairer, with greater protections against want and disease, better standards of living and improved educational prospects. It was this deep-seated sense of entitlement, aroused by the bleak deprivation of the hungry 30s, which brought about the Labour landslide of 1945.
On the back of the excited VE Day celebrations, the British public flocked once again to our sad, neglected seaside resorts and turned up in their thousands to watch five vibrant Victory Tests of 1945 in which a creaking England cricket side took on a scratch Australian Services XI. Brilliant England batsman Wally Hammond recalled the occasion with uncharacteristic euphoria, There was a feeling of peace and happiness in the air that was very delightful to me. It seemed as though after years in the shadows England was marching into the sunshine again.
Our cinemas, dance halls, race tracks, athletics stadia, boxing arenas and football and cricket grounds became packed, too, as the grim war years were cast aside with almost febrile glee. Writer and former diplomat Bruce Lockhart exclaimed in 1945, Never have I seen a nation change so quickly from a war mentality to a peace mentality. The war [in the Far East] has disappeared from