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title: "My Father and Other Working Class Football Heroes"
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# My Father and Other Working Class Football Heroes

**Brand:** gary imlach
**Price:** € 30.94
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My Father and Other Working Class Football Heroes

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    A perceptive view of sport and sporting history
  

*by M***R on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 July 2021*

This is an eye-opening view of sport seen through the eyes of a brilliant writer in Gary Imlach. Here Gary Imlach the son, seeks for Stewart Imlach the father and professional footballer. Not only does he understand his father more, but he also begins to understand the nature of the changes in football from a working-class game to one driven mainly by money. Some of the well-researched examples are not only eye-opening but jaw-dropping, particularly those related to the Scottish Football Team, to managers and management, and those related to pay and conditions.Not only does Gary Imlach expose such examples, but he writes of them passionately and with such language as to bring them right off the page.Imlach now is the face of TV presenting for the Tour de France where his sharp wit and perception can be heard daily. In this book those attributes can be found on every page. One reviewer wrote that this book should be "mandatory reading for every Premiership star". It should be, but all football lovers will also find it will enlighten them about where the game came from and perhaps also about some of its vices and virtues.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    The best I've read  !
  

*by S***F on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 18 March 2007*

This is the best football book I've ever read, but it's so much more than that. Beautiful written, this moving account not only recreates a lost world when footballers were part of the community and travelled to the home match by public bus and then walked to the players' entrance ; it also details a man's search for the father he had never really learned about while he was alive.  In the first chapter, looking at a photo of the Forest team of 1959, including his father Stewart, lining up to receive the Cup from the Queen, Gary Imach asks  "What had that moment been like for him  ?  Why didn't I know ?  Why had I never asked him this simple question ?  How had I managed to let him die without properly gathering together the details of his career, his life story ?"  Many adults whose fathers are now dead will share these questions and emotions, but few if any will go on to recreate their father's life and times as impressively as Imalach does. A brilliant account of football in the 50s and 60s, when players didn't own flash houses and cars, and were enslaved to clubs by their one-sided contracts ;  and a most moving family story.  If I could give 6 stars I would !

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Bit of a slow starter but ended up really enjoying ...
  

*by M***N on Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 10 December 2014*

Bit of a slow starter but ended up really enjoying this.  A different era where the clubs had all the power and the Scottish FA were tighter than a ........

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*Last updated: 2026-03-09*