Sir Alf

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Leo McKinstry. Sir Alf

Sir Alf. Leo McKinstry

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

ONE Dagenbam

TWO The Dell

THREE White Hart Lane

FOUR Belo Horizonte

FIVE Villa Park

SIX Portman Road

SEVEN Lancaster Gate

EIGHT Lilleshall

NINE Hendon Hall

TEN Wembley

ELEVEN Florence

TWELVE Leon

THIRTEEN Katowice

FOURTEEN St Mary’s

Bibliography

Index

Praise

Copyright

About the Publisher

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A Major Reappraisal of the Life and Times of England’s Greatest Football Manager

Another man of dignity, courage and leadership

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In his 1970 biography, when Ramsey was still England manager, Max Marquis gave a vivid description of Alf’s style. Describing his language as ‘obscure and tautological’, Marquis said that Ramsey

is unable to communicate with any precision what he means because he will never use a single-syllable word when an inappropriate two-syllable word will do and he dots his phrases with some strange, meaningless interjections…His tangled prose, allied with his capacity for self-persuasion, has made for some of his quite baffling pronouncements. In public he lets words go reluctantly through a tightly controlled mouth: his eyes move uneasily.

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