Brian Glanville

...English champions, were invited to take part, but declined having consulted Alan Hardaker, a man who explained to Brian Glanville that he didn't like dealing with football in Europe on account of there being "too many wogs and dagoes". And,...

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...1970; revised edition, 1984. Goalkeepers Are Different (for children), London, Hamish Hamilton, 1971; New York, Crown, 1972. Brian Glanville's Book of World Football, London, Dragon, 1972. The Sunday Times History of the World...

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...for the Poles. Poland drew the game 1-1 and Poland qualified for the finals in West Germany. In The Story of the World Cup, Brian Glanville wrote: "In retrospect, to be eliminated by so fine a side as Poland seems no disgrace, but this...

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...in Brazil's victory over Bulgaria a week earlier, he played no further part in the competition following this incident. Brian Glanville, writing of the match, stated: "Pele would say that it was only when he saw the incident on film that he...

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...football. "Too many wogs and dagoes," he once charmlessly explained to the legendary football writer Brian Glanville. So it is with hilarious irony that his brainchild, the League Cup - dubbed Hardaker's Folly in its early-60s infancy -...

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...England team-mate Greaves, Sir Bobby, Peter McParland, and Italian legends Luis Suarez, Gigi Riva and Mario Corso, plus journalist Brian Glanville. Hitchens was described by pundits as a player who made up for what he lacked in skill and...

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...games that I needed to be really close to the Argentinian players who caused the trouble. I am not telling you their names." Brian Glanville wrote of the incident: "There was nothing more impressive in this World Cup than the way he stood...

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...leagues. It all goes around. I do think the EPL can be a bit greedy some time and for that, again, I take from what the writer Brian Glanville says writing for www.worldsoccer.com with nearly always excellent columns. London's probably...

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...you say..." then read out their own opening paragraphs. And there was always fun to be had when Brian Glanville was in the house. Brian is not only the country's pre-eminent football writer, he's also the game's top linguist. It was always...

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...more we do this, the more we damage our own souls. • Football writing - in any literate sense of the term - was invented by Brian Glanville and I, like everyone else in the profession, will be for ever in his debt. Glanville collapsed from...

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