"Playmaker" - The autobiography of Glenn Hoddle,
‘On the pitch he was a magician’ – Arsène Wenger.
The first full autobiography from former footballer and England
manager Glenn Hoddle. Glenn was one of the most celebrated footballers of his generation.
A wonderfully talented No. 10 – he formed part of the Spurs teams
of the early 1980s and cut his teeth in the blood and thunder
of an England team that prioritised aggression over creativity.
Often seen as a player ‘out of time’, Glenn was a playmaker in the purest sense.
A creator and a goal scorer, he rose through the Tottenham youth academy –
playing under Keith Burkinshaw and crossing paths with the likes
of club legends Bill Nicholson and Danny Blanchflower –
before going on to play in Monaco under the tutelage of Arsène Wenger.
In this book, he looks back on his rise as a prodigious young footballer
and talks at length about his career that took him from
cleaning the cockerel at White Hart Lane to managing the England football team
at a World Cup. From scoring in an FA Cup final to winning
the league in France; from revitalising Chelsea in the early 1990s,
to managing the fall-out after David Beckham’s infamous
sending off at the 1998 World Cup.
Published in 2022.
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