End of Innocence, an
End of Innocence, an Jimmy Greaves was England's most prodigious goalscorer of the 1950s and 1960s. He saw the open, attacking football of the 1950s give way to a much more defensively minded game.…
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End of Innocence, an
Jimmy Greaves was England's most prodigious goalscorer of the 1950s and 1960s. He saw the open, attacking football of the 1950s give way to a much more defensively minded game. In his autobiography, Greavsie, he writes that the 1959/60 English football season was the final year of football's age of innocence.
An End of Innocence examines English football in the 1950s and a transition through the 1960s; looking at the international and domestic landscape, through the lens of a selection of teams. It was an era which also saw the advent of the tracksuit manager and specialist coaches. It considers different managerial styles, team formations, coaching and training methods, and the developments in tactics, diet and health care; as well as a significant change in footballers' lifestyles, that came after the abolition of the maximum wage in 1961.
Set against a backdrop of social and