{"product_id":"9781408714508-two-brothers","title":"Two Brothers","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe story of Jack and Bobby Charlton, and a family that characterised English football for decades\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTwo Brothers\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e tells the story of a great sporting family, uncovering new details, exposing myths and placing Jack and Bobby Charlton in their historical context. It's a book about two English footballers but also about English football and England itself.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In later life Jack and Bobby didn't get on and barely spoke but the lives of these very different brothers from the coalfield tell the story of late twentieth-century English football: the tensions between flair and industry, between individuality and the collective, between right and left, between middle- and working-classes, between exile and home.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Jack was open, charismatic, selfish and pig-headed; Bobby was guarded, shy, polite and reserved to the point of reclusiveness. They were very different footballers: Jack a gangling central defender who developed a profound tactical intelligence; Bobby an athletic attacking midfielder who disdained systems. They played for clubs who embodied two very different approaches, the familial closeness and tactical cohesion of Leeds on the one hand and the individualistic flair and clashing egos of Manchester United on the other.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Both enjoyed great success as players: Jack won a league, a Cup and two Fairs Cups with Leeds; Bobby won a league title, survived the terrible disaster of the plane crash in Munich, and then at enormous emotional cost, won a Cup and two more league titles before capping it off with the European Cup. Together, for England, they won the World Cup.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Their managerial careers followed predictably diverging paths, Bobby failing at Preston while Jack enjoyed success at Middlesbrough and Sheffield Wednesday before leading Ireland to previously un-imagined heights. Both were financially very successful, but Jack remained staunchly left-wing while Bobby tended to conservatism. In the end, Jack returned to Northumberland; Bobby remained in the North-West.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eTwo Brothers\u003c\/i\u003e tells a story of social history as well as two of the most famous football players of their generation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eInverting the Pyramid: A History of Football Tactics\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'If Jonathan Wilson's first book \u003ci\u003eBehind the Curtain, \u003c\/i\u003emarked him as the rising star of Sports literature, \u003ci\u003eInverting the Pyramid \u003c\/i\u003econfirms his place among our very best sports writers'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'Simply one of the best books ever written about the world's game'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eDominic Sandbrook\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eNobody Ever Says Thank You: The Biography of Brian Clough\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'In separating the man from the myth, Jonathan Wilson's biography of Brian Clough is the first to do him justice' Barney Ronay \u003ci\u003eThe Observer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'Jonathan Wilson's mighty new biography' Harry Pearson \u003ci\u003eWhen Saturday Comes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55563249484150,"sku":"9781408714508","price":15.38,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_34009436.jpg?v=1753428406","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781408714508-two-brothers","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}