Ron Reynolds: The Life of a 1950's Footballer

by Dave Bowler, David Reynolds

Ron Reynolds was the Spurs goalkeeper for most of the 1950s. He died in 1999, and upon clearing out his house his family discovered a meticulously kept archive of Reynolds professional career—cupboards, shoeboxes, and carrier bags full of notebooks, programs, ticket stubs, press cuttings, photographs, souvenirs from foreign tours, and Reynolds' own match reports of all his games. Taken as a whole, the collection offers a fascinating insight into the life of a professional footballer half a century ago. Dave Bowler, who conducted lengthy interviews with Reynolds before he died, augments the visual material with a written account of Reynolds' life, featuring interviews with many of his contemporaries and also a few with whom he worked and who are still in the game today.

208 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2003