Billy bonds autobiography
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Jimmy Greaves killed a horse, Billy Bonds and Trevor Brooking nearly killed a teammate, and while Bobby Moore was being framed for bracelet theft in Bogota, Emlyn Hughes bought his wife’s engagement ring in the same jewellery shop.
Have I got your attention yet? Want to know more? Of course you do. This kind of stuff is gold.
You don’t really want to hear about that one-all draw away at Sunderland that time, or about your hero’s school team, or even how it felt to win a cup. Not really. Not when you can read about Jimmy Greaves killing that horse.
Discovering moments like this across a vast array of football autobiographies and pouring them into two books of our own on the subject, has been a real passion project for myself and co-author Dan Trelfer.
Having read well over 250 of them, we now feel at least partially qualified to say what unites and divides these heroes of ours, and what makes them tick. We’ve read them all, so you don’t have to, and you’re very welcome.
For the record, the horse incident happened in Panama during Greavsie’s stint in a London to Mexico World Cup Rally in 1970, and of course he and his driver didn’t mean it — poor old Dobbin was just wandering in the road as they bombe
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Billy Bonds
William Arthur Bonds (Wollwich, Londres, Inglaterra; 17 de septiembre de 1946) es un exfutbolista y entrenador inglés.
Referente histórico del West Ham United, jugó 799 encuentros por el primer equipo en 21 temporadas, y fue el entrenador del equipo entre 1990 y 1994.[1]
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[editar]Formado en las inferiores del Charlton Athletic, debutó por el primer equipo en febrero de 1965 contra el Northampton Town. Jugó 95 encuentros de liga en total para el Charlton, hasta que en mayo de 1967 fue transferido al West Ham United por £50,000.[2][3][4]
Debutó por los hammers en el encuentro inaugural de la temporada 1967-68 ante el Sheffield Wednesday.[5] Entre 1968 y 1970, Bonds jugó 124 juegos de liga consecutivos, hasta que una lesión lo dejó fuera en octubre de 1970.[3][6] En sus tres primeras temporadas en el club jugó como lateral por la derecha, y a principios de la década de los 70 el entrenador Ron Greenwood usó a Bonds como centrocampista, dejando a Trevor Brooking en la defensa. Pasó sus mejores momentos en el club en los años 70, incluida la final de la Football League Cup en la temporada 1971-72, fue uno de los goleadores del equipo en la temporada 1973-74