In Search of Alan Gilzean The Lost Legacy of a Dundee and Spurs Legend

Alan Gilzean was a truly great footballer, winning the league with Dundee and four trophies with Tottenham Hotspur. In his prime, Leeds United manager Don Revie described him as the best touch player in Europe; even after his death in July 2018, the spine-tingling refrain of the Spurs fans who idolised him continues to echo down the generations: Gilzean, Gilzean, Born is the King of White Hart Lane. After a Spurs fan claimed that Gilzean was living as a down-and-out on a Spurs internet forum, James Morgan, a sports journalist and lifelong Tottenham fan, set out to separate fact from fiction and restore the legacy of an iconic footballer. Why was Gilzean not in the Scottish Football Hall of Fame? How had his name become forgotten in his hometown? And what had stopped him from returning to his throne at White Hart Lane?
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
James Morgan is a respected sports journalist for The Herald, Scotland's biggest-selling national broadsheet, and was previously with the Daily Mirror and Irish News in Belfast.He has been a Spurs fan since his father bought him 'a hairshirt of an Admiral kit' in 1978, and he regularly attends matches at White Hart Lane when he is not reporting on games in Scotland. He lives with his wife Helen and son James in Hamilton, South Lanarkshire.
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Published: Febuary 7, 2019
Price: £10.00
ISBN-10: 1909430269
ISBN 13: 978-1909430266
Dimensions: 12.7 x 2.03 x 19.69 cm
Paperbaqck: 325 pages