Cliff Bastin Remembers: The Autobiography of Arsenal's Greatest Outside-left [Paperback]

Code: A9502

Authors: CLIFF BASTIN & BRIAN GLANVILLE

Cliff Bastin joined Arsenal from Exeter City in 1929 at the age of eighteen. Within three years he had helped Arsenal to their first F.A. Cup win and first League Championship success. He was also capped for England - the first of twenty-one international appearances in which he scored twelve goals. By the end of his career with Arsenal in 1947, Bastin had collected five League Championship medals, two F.A. Cup winners medals in addition to his England caps. In doing so he scored 178 goals for Arsenal - a record that was to stand until 1997. World War Two robbed Bastin of his best playing years and by the time league football restarted his career was all but over. Nevertheless Bastin's pre-war achievements assured his place among the footballing giants and as an Arsenal legend. This book tells his story. From the Publisher This is a republication of Cliff Bastin's autobiography that was ghost-written by Brian Glanville in 1950. The book tells the story of Bastin's early footballing days and his brief spell with Exeter City before beiong signed by Herbert Chapman at the age of 17. "Boy" Bastin was soon to become a household name both in England and on the Continent and an integral part of the Arsenal team that dominated English football in the 1930s.

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