Tom Finney personifies a vanished golden era of football, playing his entire career under the maximum wage and never wavering in his loyalty to Preston North En

Although the war delayed the start of his league career, Tom Finney burst on the scene when normality resumed and within a few weeks of his league debut he was

LONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR PRIZE ‘The greatest story in English sport told beautifully by one of its greatest writers’ Gary Lin

The culmination of five years of research, this fascinating book reveals a side of football not explored before and explains why football coaches use astrology