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Bend it like White
The Ghost: In Search of My Father the Football Legend
By Rob White and Julie Welch
Yellow Jersey Press
£8.99
 John White was one of the great British footballers of his time: an elegant midfield playmaker at the heart of the successful Tottenham Hotspur double-winning team of the early 1960s. But in 1964, when he was just 27 years of age, he was struck dead by a bolt of lightning while sheltering under a tree on an Enfield golf course during a thunderstorm, leaving behind his wife and a six-month-old son, Rob.In this book, written in collaboration with the sports journalist and author Julie Welch, Rob documents his attempts to find out more about the father he never knew. His story is heartfelt and compelling, and includes some superb evocations of football in a bygone era, "the days of wizards of the dribble and mud-clogged boots, of floodlights as brilliant as planets in black skies”.
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