Bobby Moore: By the Person Who Knew Him Best

By Tina Moore

Book Overview

A new biography on the late Bobby Moore, captain of England's World Cup winning side of 1966, one of the greatest footballers of his generation, and a man who personified Britain in the swinging sixties. This is his powerful and moving human-interest life story, including his battle against cancer, as told by his first wife Tina 'But Bobby had been in that dark place before Lance Armstrong was even born. In many ways it was even more devastating in those days cancer was something you just didn't mention, a taboo word, a fearful prospect.' Bobby Moore's death in 1993, at the age of 51, had a profound impact on the people of this country. As the only English football captain ever to raise the World Cup, he was not just a football icon but a national one. Yet Bobby was an intensely reserved, almost mysterious personality. Only one person was his true friend and confidante -- his boyhood sweatheart, Tina, whom he met at 17 and married soon after.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0007173962
• ISBN13: 9780007173969
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: HarperCollins UK
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 1.5" x 6.5"