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- Павло Малайhas quoted8 years ago
INTRODUCTION
This is a book that focuses on the life stories of three men, reflecting on their profession and its place in their wider lives. At the same time, it seeks to tell at least something of the context of those lives. Of course, their stories begin where all our biographies start, at different points in history and in different places. In the case of our East End heroes, one does indeed begin in the East End of London; another starts close to a thousand miles north of the Caribbean, and the other has its roots in Africa. But, from these very diverse environments, they were united for a significant period of their lives. That moment was at 3.00pm on 1 April 1972; the place was Upton Park. They all wore the claret-and-blue shirts of West Ham United Football Club.
The same scenario today would not be unusual at all, but more than a third of a century ago it was uncommon for an English football club in the top flight of the game to include such a cosmopolitan element in a starting XI, at a time when the most likely ‘foreigners’ in the English game were from Scotland, Ireland or Wales. So, names like Dick Kryswicki, Asa Hartford and Eamonn Dunphy were the most ‘exotic’ that your average 1970s supporter would come across. However, it was even more out of the ordinary – in fact, it was unique
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