Smart money : the fall & rise of Brentford FC /
"In 1978, when Alex Duff first went to watch Brentford, players would go on midweek pub crawls near the Griffin Park stadium. Sometimes, in no fit state to go home, they would crash out in a terraced home where one of them lived opposite the stadium gates. Brentford had once played in the top-f...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Constable,
2024.
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| Summary: | "In 1978, when Alex Duff first went to watch Brentford, players would go on midweek pub crawls near the Griffin Park stadium. Sometimes, in no fit state to go home, they would crash out in a terraced home where one of them lived opposite the stadium gates. Brentford had once played in the top-flight but now, idling in the third division, were a second home for players and supporters, but there was neither the ambition nor money to revive their best days. One of the fans, an Oxford University physics graduate called Matthew Benham, was making millions of pounds from professional gambling and threw in a £500,000 lifeline to help keep the club afloat. Smart Money is the story of how a scientist with an inquiring mind was set loose in a backwater of professional football, and how he turned a modest, little-known team into a competitor in one of the world's most-watched sports leagues."--Google Books. |
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| Physical Description: | 328 pages, 16 unnumbered color plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index (pages 311-313). |
| ISBN: | 9781408719404 1408719401 |