Sir stanley matthews biography books

"I have no regrets about anything I have done in my career or my life.

This biography recalls Sir Stanley Matthews's unparalleled career in football for Stoke, Blackpool and England, spanning four decades, during which the modest ``wizard on the wing'' mesmerized defenders and spectators alike.

This biography recalls Sir Stanley Matthews's unparalleled career in football for Stoke, Blackpool and England, spanning four decades, during which the modest ``wizard on the wing'' mesmerized defenders and spectators alike.

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THE WAY IT WAS is a the fascinating memoir of a great footballer and the remarkable story of an extraordinary life, written in the last months of his life.

Sir Stanley Matthews was an English footballer who played as an outside right.

STANLEY MATTHEWS CENTENARY YEAR 1st FEBRUARY - 31st JANUARY An authorised biography of the legendary Stanley Matthews, 'footballer and gentleman'.

I would have liked my mother and father to be around now to hear all the wonderful and complimentary things people so often say about me because my father would be very proud and my mother would believe them."

It is both sad and fitting that Sir Stanley Matthew's touching biography ended on such a personal note with him thinking, as he so often did, about other people rather than himself.

But for once, all attention is on him in his timely autobiography, The Way it Was. It's a classic from rags to riches tale that takes him from the streets of Hanley in Stoke on Trent to the dizzy heights of football stardom, but the road was never an easy one and never once does Sir Stanley let us, or himself forget that.

What comes across so well in this engaging and beautifully written biography, completed with the help of his close friend Les Scott, is how down to earth he really was; he was very conscious tha