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The Gerry Hitchens Story - From Mine to Milan PaperbackAuthor: Simon GoodyearThe Gerry Hitchens Story - From Mine to Milan PaperbackThis book follows the life of a young miner who was plucked from the mineshaft to find himself playing football in the Italian League a few years later. It is surely something that dreams were made of? However, this is exactly what happened to one such talented, working class lad from a small mining village in Shropshire in the late 1950’s.
PublisherBreedon Books ISBN9781859838440 Price in GBP£12.99 |
About the Author
As a life-long Aston Villa fan, Simon Goodyear's late father had watched with interest from the Holte End terraces, a ‘raw’ but strong and powerful footballing talent soon become an Aston Villa idol. Gerry Hitchens later played for England and became an ‘idol’ for thousands of Italian football fans. As an author himself, Goodyear's father always contemplated writing a book on this footballing ‘great’, his ‘hero’, Gerry Hitchens. He thought it would make a good read, but unfortunately, time prevailed, and sadly he didn’t undertake the project.
With the passing of his father in 2008, Goodyear felt inspired to fulfil his father's idea of writing a biography of Hitchens, a quiet man and great footballer. With the help of the Hitchens family, he has put together not only a biographical account of the story of Gerald Archibald Hitchens - player, husband and father - but a brief historical insight into football in Britain and Italy during the 1950’s and 1960’s.
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