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Gordon Banks
A HERO WHO COULD FLY
- By Don Mullan
- foreword by Gabriel Byrne

Gordon Banks - A hero who could fly (Paperback) ISBN: 0954704738 Price: €9.99

Gordon Banks - A hero who could fly (Hardback) ISBN: 0-9547047-9-7 Price: €19.99

Gordon Banks: A Hero Who Could Fly belongs to that rare band of books which transcend categorisation. It is partly an ode to one of the greatest English football men of the twentieth century, partly the story of the politicization of a Derry teenager as the Troubles began to flame across Northern Ireland. Above all, it is a book about aspiring to live one's life to certain principles. Besides goalkeeping, that is what Gordon Banks and author Don Mullan have in common.

Collaborations between sports stars, from whatever era, and the fans who watched them from afar, do not happen very often. Mullan's admiration for Gordon Banks outlasted his adolescence and the worst moments of violence in his home town of Derry. Long after the England legend retired, he remained for Mullan the most vivid and supreme representation of English football.That they would meet decades later, as equals and eventually as friends, is what makes this book ring so powerfully true and heartfelt.

- Keith Duggan, Sport Writer, Irish Times

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