num_pages: 288
description: A beautifully written and moving account of the author’s search for the man his father was, and the life he led as a well-known footballer at a time when the men who played the game, and those who watched it, led fundamentally the same lives together in the same communities.
language: English
title: My Father and Other Working-Class Heroes
titlecomplete: My Father and Other Working-Class Heroes
genres: Biography, Football, British Literature, Soccer, Nonfiction, Sports, Autobiography, History
ratings_count: 562
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: William Hill Sports Book of the Year
publisher: Yellow Jersey Press