Clyde Best

Gebundenes Buch

The Acid Test

The Autobiography of Clyde Best, Limited Edition

Beschreibung

On a rainy Sunday in August 1968, Clyde Best arrived in London for the first time. Not long out of school, he had come for a week-long trial with West Ham United, the club with which he had fallen in love while watching the FA Cup final four years previously. It was the 17-year-old's first time away from the Caribbean. In his autobiography, The Acid Test, Clyde relates how he overcame appalling and violence-tinged discrimination because of the colour of his skin and how that served as an inspiration for dealing with intolerance throughout his career.

Autor

Clyde Best MBE was born in Bermuda in 1951. Described by Ron Greenwood, as 'the best 17 year-old I have ever seen', the centre forward was signed by the West Ham as a teenager and spent eight years at Upton Park. He developed a reputation as a powerful, bustling centre-forward attracting widespread respect for defying the racism endemic in English football at the time. In 186 games for West Ham he scored 47 goals before embarking on a successful playing career in the United States. In the 1990s he worked as a coach, also managing the Bermudan national team. Best was inducted into the Bermuda National Sports Hall of Fame in 2004. He was awarded an MBE in the January 2006 New Year's Honours list for services to football and the community in Bermuda.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Decoubertin Books
• UK edition
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. August 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 249mm x 167mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 728g
• ISBN-13: 9781909245457
• ISBN-10: 1909245453
• Artikelnr.: 46880549