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Stokoe, Sunderland and 73: The Story Of the Greatest FA Cup Final Shock of All Time |  | Author: Lance Hardy
Publisher: Orion
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Media: Hardcover
Pages: 354
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Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.2 x 1.5
ISBN: 0752898515
Dewey Decimal Number: 796
EAN: 9780752898513
ASIN: 0752898515
Publication Date: December 21, 2009
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What happened to the side who caused the last, great FA Cup upset?
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the greatest fooball book ever written July 15, 2010
a love supreme ftm (uk)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
the greatest football book ever written
dont waste your money on mandelson,s rubbish,buy a book that will lift your heart and wish for the days of romance and the underdog.
the lads will rise again!
Great book, great memories, great story March 8, 2010
Mrs Whitfield
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have been a Sunderland fan all my life. My dad used to take me to home matches, even though this required a 2 hour bus ride from where we lived. The cup run of 1973 will live long in my memory, as I was at several of those matches, including the amazing semi at Hillsborough. This book has reawakened all those memories, as well as providing some information which I had not known at the time, being only 15 when it all happened. It does seem fantastic to read about it now, but those are cherished memories for me, and always will be. My father, sadly now deceased, would have loved this book, too. If you are a Sunderland fan it is required reading. If you are a lover of football, I would also recommend it. If you just like to see the underdog win, to see David beat Goliath, to see the human spirit triumph against overwhelming odds, you will enjoy this book.
I still enjoy watching football today, but I wish I could see another team like this one, doing what they did. All the better if it happened to be Sunderland, but any team capable of doing what this team did in 1973 would be amazing to watch. It would make a riveting film, actually!
This is a gripping, very informative and highly entertaining book, and stirs the emotions, especially for anyone who lived through it. Please buy it, and read it, and tell your friends about it. The author deserves it to be a success, and i thank him for his efforts in writing it.
Absolutely superb book. March 6, 2010
Dave Wilson (Durham UK.)
Fascinating book, gives an excellent insight to the background of the characters at the time but also parallels the careers of their rivals-to-be so you get a build up of the history between them. A real eye-opener for me about the characters of certain people and the story builds through the years giving the details of each of their careers and their progress together with the club. A must for all Sunderland fans of all ages, I was too young to remember much about the 1973 FA Cup run so this brilliantly captures all the run and the off the field scenes, absolutely terrific read.
WE DARED TO DREAM AND THE DREAM CAME TRUE February 17, 2010
R. Williams (Market Harborough, Leics)
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
ONE long Good Friday almost 50 years ago Don Revie was accused of trying to BRIBE rival boss Bob Stokoe.
As a result he sensationally ignited a bitter hatred which turned into the last great football fairytale as Stokoe's Sunderland shocked Revie's Leeds to win the FA Cup in the biggest upset of all time.
The dramatic story - which also involves Brian Clough - is told for the first time by BBC sports journalist Lance Hardy in his unmissable new book 'Stokoe, Sunderland and '73'.
Revie's struggling Leeds faced dropping out of the old Second Division for the first time in 1962 when he took them to Stokoe's Bury.
According to Stokoe, Revie said to him minutes before kick-off: "I've got £500 in my pocket for you if you take it easy today."
The outraged Shakers' player-manager retorted: "Not bloody likely."
The confrontation made the two soccer legends implacable enemies and set the scene for the most incredible FA Cup showdown in Wembley history.
And this gold nugget which speaks volumes about both Revie and Stokoe is just one of a set of sparkling gems which light up this fascinating, explosive, action-packed tale.
Hardy was just five when his dad sat him down in front of the telly in Worksop, Notts, and told him to support the Wearsiders as rank outsiders against Revie's all-conquering but hated Leeds on May 5, 1973.
Enthralled by Stokoe's red and white lionhearts, mesmerised Lance cheered as Ian Porterfield shot the Second Division side ahead against the Mean Machine from Yorkshire.
The dazzled little lad almost fell off the sofa as Jimmy Montgomery pulled off the best save ever seen at Wembley from a stunned Peter Lorimer to deny one of the most formidable teams the game's ever seen.
Lance became a Sunderland diehard and has written the most absorbing sports books I've ever read.
As a Black Cats-mad lad of 14, I was there when Dave Watson and Ron Guthrie fired us through against Luton in the quarter-finals and Vic Halom and Billy Hughes incredibly gunned down mighty Arsenal in the semis at Hillsborough.
It broke my heart because I couldn't get a ticket for the final for love nor money.
Hardy captures the romance, free spirits, laughs, excitement and heart-stopping drama of a golden bygone age of the FA Cup almost 40 years ago as all our dreams came true.
As well as shedding dazzling new light on the intrigue, politics and brutal backstabbing in '60s and '70s football which make the Commons look like a kindergarten.
Enter stage left Brian Clough.
The football titan disliked Stokoe just as much as Revie did.
And their mutual loathing again went back to that fateful and totemic year 1962, Hardy's meticulous three-year labour of love tells us.
Ironically playing at Roker for Bury, Stokoe told the ref Sunderland striker Clough was only kidding as he lay in agony after snapping his cruciate ligament on a treacherously icy pitch on Boxing Day.
But Stokoe was left looking foolish as the horrific injury ended the goal-happy hitman's fantastic career.
And as Hardy writes: "Clough would never forgive Stokoe for that."
The wheel turned full circle because as well as Revie, Cloughy was also at Wembley for the epic final shoot-out as a BBC pundit bringing the three adversaries together in an unholy trinity linked by a twist of fate.
The Damned United, looking at Old Big 'Ead's ill-starred 44 days as Leeds gaffer and starring Michael Sheen, was a huge big screen hit last year.
Stokoe's feat at winning the most famous club competition in the world with no internationals is surely a rags-to-riches rollercoaster which would also pack out cinemas from Carlisle to Cornwall.
A scathing outburst by Leeds skipper Billy Bremner sums up a piece of spine-tingling folklore that none of us Mackems will forget if we live to be 100.
The midfield hardman left a huge hole in his fellow Scot Ian Porterfield's sock and a raking gash on his left leg in a lunging foul as, knocked out of their killer stride, Leeds reverted to type and turned nasty.
Dripping blood, Porterfield jumped up and defiantly grinned at startled Bremner who spat out: "You're as mad as your bloody manager!"
Published by Orion Books at £18.99, the fantastically entertaining and eye-opening Stokoe, Sunderland and '73 by Lance Hardy perfectly mirrors the magnificent match itself - it's a true classic.
Beautifully illustrated to boot, if you've got ONE football bone in your body go out and buy it tomorrow.
To dream the impossible dream....... February 15, 2010
Andy Goldsworthy (Surrey)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Lance has written a very special book. One of the best football books I've read and certainly the best book ever about Sunderland AFC. It's also another great take on the enigma that was Don Revie's damned Leeds United.
The depth of the research is exhausting and the narrative style is excellent. It could be fiction but it's all the more remarkable for being fact. The insights from the players are illuminating and shed a light on aspects of Bob Stokoe and the Club that I may have suspected but could never corroborate.
I rationed myself to a chapter a day and couldn't wait to pick it up again!
For those `baby boomer' supporters of SAFC like me, the '73 FA Cup Win remains far and away, the zenith of supporting Sunderland, through thick and a hell of a lot of thin. This book encapsulates all that was exceptional and unique about that achievement and in a style befitting Stokoe's team.
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