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Alchemy: Brian Clough & Peter Taylor at Hartlepools United

by Christopher Hull
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9780750999595
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: History Press
  • Publisher Imprint: History Press
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 224
  • Original Price: GBP 20.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 530 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): General and Coaching / Soccer

Boxing Day 1962: Sunderland star striker Brian Clough suffers a career-threatening knee injury. After a futile battle for fitness, he retires early and sinks into deep despair. He's then thrown a lifeline, and persuades ex-teammate Peter Taylor to join him in managing the Cinderella club of north-east football. Penniless Hartlepools United are next to bottom of the Fourth Division, with a meddling chairman, a ramshackle ground, and want-away players. Yet the pair's intuitive chemistry steadily transforms the threadbare team and improves results. Shrewd assistant manager Taylor talent-spots bargain players, while his brash but charismatic partner man-manages them. Clough also spearheads a 'Save the Club' fundraising campaign, in a town where coal trade is dwindling and the last shipyard has closed. Together, the pair develop a blueprint that later wins them league championships and European Cup glory at unfashionable Derby County and Nottingham Forest. Exploiting a wealth of archive newspapers and interviews with surviving players, Alchemy reveals the humble origins of Clough & Taylor's meteoric rise to the top of the football tree.

Despite being born and raised in London, Christopher Hull has been following Hartlepool United since 1978. He is the author of Our Man Down in Havana (Pegasus, 2019), which William Boyd described as "A revelation and a delight."

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