Get It On by Jon Spurling


ISBN
9781785906510
Published
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
416
Dimensions
165 x 241mm

English football in the ’70s was a kaleidoscope of drama, innovation, opportunity, controversy, tragedy, melodrama and slapstick. It remains the most cutting edge of all football decades, blazing a trail for what followed, and this is reflected in the burgeoning TV coverage of the time. Match of the Day and The Big Match drew huge audiences each week during the ’70s. Leading managers and players were in demand to appear as guests on TV chat shows and were the subject of documentaries that gave viewers unprecedented insight into the lives of the superstars of the day, such as Clough, Best, Revie, Shankly, Allison, Docherty and Paisley. It was the first ‘modern’ football decade, despite often being lampooned and scoffed at, and it set in place much of what is now part and parcel of the game, including sponsorship, TV punditry and football ‘personalities’. Get It On is a book about 1970s football and some of its prime movers and shakers, cult figures and accidental heroes. Some were inadvertently sucked into a maelstrom of publicity. Others were charismatic, media-savvy, sideburn-clad, cigar-smoking, Champagne-swilling, upwardly mobile chat show guests who became household names as the era of colour television began. As well as being about the game itself, this book is also about the politics, the popular culture and the events of the era. These different strands are interconnected, because, as much as football was shaped by that which swirled around it, the national game in the ’70s also defined the timbre of the era. There is a danger, as the pre-1992 era recedes into history, that the game in the ’70s is reduced to a varnished selection of YouTube clips, a clutch of tales and bon mots handed down via the after dinner speaking circuit or, worse, written out entirely. Get It On goes some way to redressing the balance. 'You always know you’re going to get a fascinating read from Spurling. But this is his most vivid book yet - sheer joy! For us old geezers, it’s like being miraculously transported back to the 1970s. And, for younger readers, I can promise you quite an education.' – Patrick Barclay
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