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Valley of Dreams

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ISBN-10: 0007140452

ISBN-13: 9780007140459

Edition: 2002

Authors: Alan Curbishley

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Charlton Athletic represent a model of how a Premiership football club should be run. Manager Alan Curbishley reveals the harshly guarded secrets of the club's success - from the boardroom and manager's office down to the dressing room and pitchside - and reflects on how the club went from homeless strugglers to challenging football's elite.Alan Curbishley has encountered most of football's ill winds in the decade he has been coach, co-manager, then sole manager of Charlton - a club once homeless, with gates of less than 3000, forced to sell players to pay the wages and to buy replacement kit for the first team, and teetering on the brink of extinction.Galvanised by fans, staff,…    
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Book details

List price: $14.99
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Limited
Publication date: 8/21/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 432
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.44" long x 1.44" tall
Weight: 1.694
Language: English

Alan Curbishley was born in the East End of London in 1957. His playing career spanned West Ham, Birmingham City, Aston Villa, Brighton and Charlton, and he represented England at schoolboy, youth and Under-21 level. He was appointed joint manager of Charlton in 1991 and was given sole control four years later. He was voted Manager of the Year in 2000 and established Charlton as a leading Premiership side, before leaving in 2006.