Different Class: Football, Fashion and Funk – The Story of Laurie Cunningham
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| Rating | : | 4.25 (897 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01MXDPDF0 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 280 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-11-29 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
He was a man of swagger with a love of funk music and bespoke suits. Many know his name but not his story; now they will know both.. He brought glamour to the game of football at a particularly dark time in its history and won over hostile crowds with his style and swagger.This is the biography of Laurie Cunningham. In 1977, Laurie Cunningham became the first black footballer to play professionally for England and, two years later, went on to become the first Englishman to play for Real Madrid. And he was an exceptional footballer who could play like a dream.Different Class is not your typical football biography. He wanted to talk about fashion, dance and cinema, not just hang around footballers. In a time when race relations were a divisive social issue, and when racist chants and bananas would be thrown from the stands, Cunningham’s success changed the way black players were perceived and paved the way for a new generation of black footballers.But Cunningham was more than ‘the greatest natural talent this country had produced since George Best’. He wanted to be different. It tells the story of the son of Jamaican immigrants, who grew up poor in North London to become an important but unsung figure in the tapestry of late-20th-century England
About the AuthorDermot Kavanagh is the Sports Picture Editor of the Sunday Times. Different Class is his first book. He is also a contributor to the literary website London Fictions. He has published articles in the Sunday Times, the football magazine When Saturday Comes and Howler. . Over the past twenty-five years he has worked for various newspapers, magazines and picture agencies. He lives inLondon with his wife and three sons
Dermot Kavanagh is the Sports Picture Editor of the Sunday Times. He is also a contributor to the literary website London Fictions. He lives inLondon with his wife and three sons. . Over the past twenty-five years he has worked for various newspapers, magazines and picture agencies. He has published articles in the Sunday Times, the football magazine When Saturday Comes and Howler. Different Class is his first book