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PREVIEW: Go To War, by Jon Spurling

My new book is about 1980s football, in particular its prime movers and shakers at clubs like Liverpool, Everton, Aston Villa, and Arsenal.
PREVIEW:

Jon Spurling

My new book is about 1980s football, in particular its prime movers and shakers at clubs like Liverpool, Everton, Aston Villa, and Arsenal.
Go To War also includes a discussion of some of the leading players and managers of the time.
But to show exactly what kind of an era it was, it further encompasses heavy hitting Conservative Party politicians like Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, a new breed of club executives like media mogul Robert Maxwell, whose media profile was on an upward trajectory, and Lord Justice Taylor, whose findings in 1989 and subsequent report in 1990 woul...

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