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Title: Celtic: The Awakening: From East End Misfits to European Masters
Author: Alex Gordon
Published: 14 Mar 2013
Synopsis
Yet at the start of the decade, Celtic were a team plagued by defeats and in disarray both on and off the field. What brought about their remarkable transformation?
In Celtic: The Awakening, Alex Gordon enters uncharted territory to investigate the story of Celtic in the 1960s, an extraordinary decade in the club’s roller-coaster 125-year history. Players of the era, good, bad and indifferent, are interviewed in depth in an attempt to unravel one of football’s greatest mysteries.
Sweeping through the ’60s and beyond, Celtic: The Awakening details the previously untold story of how a proud club rose from grief to glory, from dismay to delight.
Review
(Review by David Potter)
A good book by Alex Gordon on a tempestuous time in Celtic’s history. Those of us who lived through it will enjoy this book. It is well written with good use of the likely lads, Tommy Gemmell and Bertie Auld, but there is no real depth of personal feeling from the author who is more of a journalist (and a good one) than a dyed-in-the-wool supporter.
The devastation of 1963 needs an interview with a supporter to indicate the “unspeakable grief” of it all, and a finger needs to be pointed at some players for Milan in 1970, and Partick Thistle in 1971, occasions that were difficult for supporters. And why were our “likely lads” sent home prematurely from America in summer 1970?
Occasionally things are presented in the wrong chronological order,or with the wrong emphasis, and there are a few mistakes, particularly in details like venues of games. Bob Kelly’s death is given as April 1971, whereas in was September of that year; Neil Mochan was already at Celtic Park when Jock Stein arrived. But these are small blemishes.
It is yet another impressive Celtic book. Well worth a read.
Product Details
- Hardcover: 288 pages
- Publisher: Mainstream Publishing (14 Mar 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1780575890
- ISBN-13: 978-1780575896
- Product Dimensions: 24 x 16.2 x 2.9 cm
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