Danish Dynamite : the story of football's greatest cult team
Smyth, Rob2014
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The Denmark side of the 1980s was one of the last truly iconic international football teams. Although they did not win a trophy, they claimed something much more important and enduring: glory, and in industrial quantities. They were a bewitching fusion of futuristic attacking football, effortless Scandinavian cool and laid-back living. They played like angels and lived like you and I, and they were everyone's second team in the mid-1980s. The story of Danish Dynamite, as the team became known, is the story of a team of rock stars in a polyester Hummel kit. Heralding from a country with no real football history to speak of and a population of five million, this humble and likeable team was unique. Everymen off the field and superheroes on it, they were totally of their time, and their approach to the game was in complete contrast to the gaudy excess and charmless arrogance of today's football stars.
Main title:
Danish Dynamite : the story of football's greatest cult team / Rob Smyth, Lars Eriksen and Mike Gibbons.
Imprint:
London : Bloomsbury, 2014.
Collation:
viii, 244 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781408844847 (pbk)
Dewey class:
796.334094796.334094 SMY
Language:
English
BRN:
1106883
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