The Great English Final: 1953: Cup, Coronation and Stanley Matthews

by David Tossell

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The 1953 FA Cup Final between Blackpool and Bolton Wanderers had everything: seven goals, a dramatic comeback and, in Stanley Matthews, a fairytale hero. Sixty years on, this legendary game has come to represent a golden age - the year when Queen Elizabeth II was crowned and a British expedition conquered Everest. The Great English Final looks at the cultural importance of the match as Britain broke free from post-war austerity, with pre-Coronation television sales taking the Cup Final into more homes than ever before. In 1953, Britain clung to the old-fashioned values epitomised by Matthews while bracing itself...Read more
  • ISBN13 9781785311468
  • Publish Date 15 June 2016 (first published 1 March 2013)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 3 March 2021
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Pitch Publishing Ltd
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 320
  • Language English