Postcards from Santiago – The George Robledo Story – The First Overseas Star of English Football

Postcards from Santiago – The George Robledo Story – The First Overseas Star of English FootballLong before Erling Haaland, Thierry Henry and Eric Cantona, there was George Robledo, the first overseas star of English football. Abandoned by his father as a child in Chile, Robledo came to the UK, where he was raised in a Yorkshire mining village, serving underground as a 'Bevin Boy' during the Second World War prior to making his name with Barnsley. During the 1951 1952 season, his thirty three goals for Newcastle United in what is now the Premier

Size: 208mm x 280mm – 242 pages

While Ricky has won trophies and awards overseas

Size: 134mm x 214mm – 222 pages

229 in the Second Division

Marseille and Chelsea on the way

home of the Toffees since 1892 and one of the last traditional football amphitheatres

This book also includes lists of top goalscorers where known and the results of various promotion and relegation play-off matches

The story of Leeds United since the turn of the century tells of a tumultuous period at Elland Road which began with the highs of the club reaching the semi-finals of the Champions League in 2001 before a financial implosion saw the club relegated to the third tier of English football for the first time

Jack is Manchester United's 4th highest scorer

Ferguson had arrived three years earlier to try to end a two-decade wait to lift the First Division title

paradoxically

The world's biggest football club comes under scrutiny like no other sporting institution on earth