Flight to Bogota

England's Football Rebel, Neil Franklin

Flight to Bogota
John Harding
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Paperback
h216 x 138mm - 256pg
7 Sep 2020 UK
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9781785316548
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Flight to Bogota tells the incredible story of one of the most infamous episodes in English sporting history, when a group of British footballers turned their backs on club and country before the 1950 World Cup for a sporting El Dorado in Colombia. It was a rebellion led by first-choice England centre-half Neil Franklin. The book charts how the players were secretly lured away from Britain, amid Franklin' s strident complaints of ' serfdom' in English football, their brief struggles to adapt to Colombian life and the fallout once they humiliatingly returned home to face the wrath of club and country. This escapade was a personal failure for Franklin and left his career in tatters. But the players' vociferous defence of their behaviour enlightened a shocked nation about how clubs mistreated footballers. Ultimately, it led to reforms that would financially benefit future footballing generations, but these financial rewards were never enjoyed by Franklin and his fellow ' football bandits' who embarked on that fateful ' Flight to Bogota' .
John Leonard is a news and sports journalist of more than 30 years' experience, spending most of his career at ITN as a programme editor for both ITV News and 5 News. Earlier in his career he worked as a sports news editor for ITN. His other books include Tony Waddington: Director of a Working Man' s Ballet and Fair Game? Tackling Politics in Sport, both published by Pitch.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781785316548
Published: 7 Sep 2020
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Pitch Publishing
Publisher: Pitch Publishing
Format: Paperback
Height: 216mm
Width: 138mm
Pages: 256

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