Gordon Banks: A Hero Who Could Fly
- ISBN-10
- 0954704738
- ISBN-13
- 9780954704735
- Category
- Soccer goalkeepers
- Pages
- 128
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006
- Author
- Don Mullan
Description
A few weeks ago a small but very moving book 'A Hero Who Could Fly' was published about an Irish boy and his English hero. It is the memoir of a boy with learning disabilities who learned to read and write through his sporting idol, Gordon Banks. Through the darkest days of 'The Troubles', the influence of the boy's hero remained constant. It all began 40 years ago this month when, on 30 July 1966, the boy saw Banksy for the first time on TV in the World Cup Final at Wembley. As an adult the boy became a best-selling author with Eyewitness Bloody Sunday - a book that inspired the award-winning movie 'Bloody Sunday' - but he never forgot the debt of gratitude he owed to England's greatest goalkeeper.
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