Danish dynamite : the story of football's greatest cult team / Rob Smyth, Lars Eriksen and Mike Gibbons.

Author
Smyth, Rob [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
London ; New York : Bloomsbury, 2014.
Description
viii, 244 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm

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    "The Denmark side of the 1980s was one of the last truly iconic international football teams. Although they did not win a trophy, they claimed something much more important and enduring: glory, and in industrial quantities. They were a bewitching fusion of futuristic attacking football, effortless Scandinavian cool and laid-back living. They played like angels and lived like you and I, and they were everyone's second team in the mid-1980s. The story of Danish Dynamite, as the team became known, is the story of a team of rock stars in a polyester Hummel kit. Heralding from a country with no real football history to speak of and a population of five million, this humble and likeable team was unique. Everymen off the field and superheroes on it, they were totally of their time, and their approach to the game was in complete contrast to the gaudy excess and charmless arrogance of today's football stars. That they ultimately imploded in spectacular style, with a shocking 5-1 defeat to Spain in the 1986 World Cup in a game that almost everyone expected them to win, only adds to their legend."--Provided by publisher.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (p. 224-225) and index.
    Contents
    • 1. Mr and Mrs Bignell
    • 2. For he's a jolly good fellow
    • 3. Alemano Bruto
    • 4. Concrete illness
    • 5. De Vlo Effect
    • 6. Twin towers
    • 7. The sparrow and the Shadow
    • 8. The roligans
    • 9. 'If I had a gun ... '
    • 10. The first time
    • 11. Poster boys
    • 12. 'The game'
    • 13. Gloria Dana
    • 14. 'Re-Sepp-Ten'
    • 15. For Denmark
    • 16. A public fiesta of football
    • 17. Pyrrhic victory
    • 18. The worst time
    • 19. The binary boys
    • 20. Glory
    • 21. When we should have been world champions
    • Bibliography
    • Acknowlegements
    • Index.
    ISBN
    • 1408844842
    • 9781408844847
    OCLC
    859880767
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