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Pitch Perfect...marvellous and affecting...Hamilton is a first rate pen-portraitionist... -- Wynn Wheldon The Spectator Hamilton brings football home...As a memoir, it is heart-crackingly nostalgic. As a record of historic moments in British football, it is eye-wateringly evocative. Blackpool Gazette Hamilton takes us on a hugely enjoyable nostalgia trip...a moving depiction of how football can bind together a family. Sunday Express Touching Sport Magazine The book is sincere and deeply honouring of Hamilton's father as well as dead greats such as Lawton, Shankly, Jackie Milburn, Duncan Edwards and Bobby Moore... Financial Times

Heart-crackingly nostalgic The Times Spellbindingly evocative ... an unforgettable homage not only to his father but to his flat-capped generation of ye grand olde days of thud and mud and Saturday's teatime urban gloaming. Observer Pitch perfect . This marvellous and affecting book, which is about love and fatherhood and history and manners as much as it is about football . Hamilton is a first-rate pen-portraitist. Spectator Hamilton wrote two of the best sports books of recent years, on Brian Clough and the cricketer Harold Larwood ... a fine collection of vignettes ... make this another winner. Sunday Times Hamilton takes us on a hugely enjoyable nostalgia trip...a moving depiction of how football can bind together a family. Sunday Express

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Duncan Hamilton is the author of Provided You Don't Kiss Me- 20 Years with Brian Clough which won the William Hill Sports Book of the Year for 2007. In 2009, he was awarded the William Hill again, for Harold Larwood, as well as winning the prestigious Wisden Book of the Year for 2009 and Biography of the Year at the 2010 British Sports Book Awards. He lives in the Yorkshire Dales.

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