In 2013 Alan Hodgkinson marks 60 years spent playing & coaching at clubs including Sheffield United Manchester United & Engl&. This is the story of his life
- & the life of the game
- in that time. In 2013 Alan Hodgkinson marks 60 years spent playing & coaching at clubs including Sheffield United Manchester United & Engl&. In ' Between the Sticks' Alan tells the story of a life in football: from his days as a trainee at Worksopp Town in the 50s to his big-money move to Sheffield United (where his signing-on fee was a new suit for 'courting') to England duty as well as a glittering coaching career at Man United Rangers Villa among others. It is a story that features legends of the game such as Matthews Charlton Best & Pele all of whom Alan has played with or against. ' Between the Sticks' will transport the reader back to a golden age of football when pig skins were hoofed around with hobnail boots to the modern day where as a coach at Oxford United Alan sees the realities of 21st century football first-h&. It is a story that no football fan will want to miss.