Danny Blanchflower, a Glorious Life
The Authorised 100th Anniversary Biography of a Global Football Icon
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Pitch Publishing Ltd
Published:23rd Mar '26
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Danny Blanchflower: A Glorious Life is the authorised biography of a football icon, told with the help of those who knew him best. Admired for his eloquence, humour and talent for innovation and inspiration, the cultured midfielder blazed a trail from Glentoran to Barnsley, Aston Villa, Northern Ireland and, ultimately, to Tottenham Hotspur, where he became the most successful captain in the club’s 140-plus-year history. As skipper of the Lilywhites, alongside manager Bill Nicholson, he helped create a team lauded as one of the greatest club sides of all time. It was a team that epitomised what he stood for as a football figure: the pursuit of glory. With inside insight from close family members, media colleagues and fellow footballers, this book is the perfect celebration of the centenary of his birth.
"Reading this excellent book will allow a whole new generation to share Danny's life and, at the end of it, feel they have come to know him. Mike Donovan has dug deep with the help of Danny's son Richard [and] the result is an intriguing narrative of a footballer leader, rebel and pioneer who shaped football's development."
-- Eric Brown * Sports Journalists' Association *"Players are often remembered for goals or flashes of brilliance. Blanchflower's remembered for what he valued. That is why Mike Donovan's book feels important now. If we don't write about these heroes, if we don't remember them, then what have we got? History matters. Men like Blanchflower created legacies. May that always be remembered."
-- Garry Doyle * Irish Daily StISBN: 9781836802594
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352 pages