An essential fly-on-the-wall account of the biggest World Cup tournament ever staged.1998 is the year the World Cup comes home. Almost 70 years since Jules Rimet’s dream first came to fruition, France plays host for the first time to the greatest sporting event in the world. And, with a record-breaking 32 nations competing, the 1998 tournament will be the largest and most widely publicised football extravaganza in history.While following the sporting action, Mark Palmer will also travel around France to speak to fans, players, coaches, competition organisers and journalists, to present the inside story of the World Cup as the drama unfolds. With unrivalled access to the English and French FAs, as well as world regulating body FIFA, Palmer will balance the official view of the tournament with fans’ own experiences – all the while comparing the breaking story to how it is being reported back home.
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Mark Palmer. Lost in France: The Story of England's 1998 World Cup Campaign
Lost in France. The Story of England’s 1998 World Cup. MARK PALMER
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Contents
Preface
Chapter 1 Funeral Week
Chapter 2 Who’s Got the Key to the Changing Room?
Chapter 3 XAIPEO
Chapter 4 Me and the Gaffer Are Fine
Chapter 5 Faith
Chapter 6 Thirty Minus Eight
Chapter 7 France at Last
Chapter 8 You Could Have Walked Away
Chapter 9 Scoring
Chapter 10 Salsa in Toulouse
Chapter 11 We’re in the Race Now, Aren’t We?
Chapter 12 A Chance to Put Things Right
Chapter 13 Bottle
Chapter 14 Writing on the Wall
Acknowledgements
About the Publisher
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For Henry
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‘You seem a different man, Tony.’
‘Thank you,’ replied Adams, after a long pause. ‘What you are seeing is a released man. I am not being eaten up any more. And I have taken the good points from my professional life and brought them into my private life. I have a different type of addiction now – an addiction to life. An addiction that makes me want to get up every Monday morning to try to prove myself as a person and on the football field. You don’t get many opportunities to play in World Cup finals, and I’m running out of time.’
