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TRUE GRIT
True Grit Mclintock, Frank
- GenresFootball
320 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2005
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October 2, 2016
I loved the Arsenal FC double team of 70/71. I was only nine when Arsenal won the double but I’d been Arsenal mad for a couple of years and kept a scrapbook of every newspaper match report. I even had all the autographs of the first team as my Mum knew the reserve goalkeeper's wife.
My passion doesn’t burn anything like so bright these days but I will always hold the double team in awe. Needless to say I read 'True Grit' as I was interested in Frank's time with Arsenal. That said, I really enjoyed his recollections of a tough Glasgow childhood in a Gorbals tenement building and his years with Leicester FC in the early to mid 1960s. Amazingly he was doing a painting apprenticeship whilst also working as a professional footballer, even working on the morning before travelling to London for an FA Cup final with Leicester.
Frank’s life was full of ups and downs, particularly professionally, and his resilience and determination are quite remarkable, and it is obviously his drive and determination that made him one of the best players of his era.
For an Arsenal fan 'True Grit' is hugely enjoyable, but I daresay fans of Leicester and QPR would find much to enjoy too, as indeed would anyone interested in English football throughout the 1960s and 1970s.
My passion doesn’t burn anything like so bright these days but I will always hold the double team in awe. Needless to say I read 'True Grit' as I was interested in Frank's time with Arsenal. That said, I really enjoyed his recollections of a tough Glasgow childhood in a Gorbals tenement building and his years with Leicester FC in the early to mid 1960s. Amazingly he was doing a painting apprenticeship whilst also working as a professional footballer, even working on the morning before travelling to London for an FA Cup final with Leicester.
Frank’s life was full of ups and downs, particularly professionally, and his resilience and determination are quite remarkable, and it is obviously his drive and determination that made him one of the best players of his era.
For an Arsenal fan 'True Grit' is hugely enjoyable, but I daresay fans of Leicester and QPR would find much to enjoy too, as indeed would anyone interested in English football throughout the 1960s and 1970s.
August 29, 2019
Intesting Read
Always liked Frank , really good read ,some great tales of a great career , would recommend to all fans especially if Arsenal but all older people will be interested
Always liked Frank , really good read ,some great tales of a great career , would recommend to all fans especially if Arsenal but all older people will be interested
April 25, 2021
He was a tough guy and the opening chapters introducing us to growing up in the Gorbals was so much more antmospheric than Shuggie Bain. Very easy to read and a celebrtation of a remarkable footballer and one of the good guys.
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