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  • Published: 15 June 2012
  • ISBN: 9780224083003
  • Imprint: Yellow Jersey
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $35.00
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The Ghost

In Search of My Father the Football Legend




From the publishers of My Father and other Working Class Heroes comes the incredible biography of sixties Tottenham Hotspur legend, John White, who died aged 27.

When Spurs legend John White was killed by a bolt of lightning in 1964, the football world was rocked by the tragedy. He was just 27 years of age.

Nicknamed the 'Ghost' for the way that he could drift into space undetected, White played an inspirational role in the great double-winning Tottenham Hotspur side of the early 1960s. Every fan has a story about him.

When White died, his son, Rob, was only six months old and so never knew his father. The man who was revered by hundreds of thousands of football fans across the country was a stranger to him. Beyond the grainy Cup Final footage and yellowed newspaper articles, there was so much Rob didn't know, questions he had never had an opportunity to ask. To find answers he set out to speak to White's former teammates, his family and followers, and built up a touching portrait of a gifted young footballer and of a lost era.

'Had John lived, he could have been one of the greatest footballers of all time' - Jimmy Greaves

With a new afterword for the paperback.

  • Published: 15 June 2012
  • ISBN: 9780224083003
  • Imprint: Yellow Jersey
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $35.00
Categories:

About the authors

Rob White

Rob White is a professional photographer. The Ghost of White Hart Lane is his first book.

Julie Welch

Julie Welch is the critically lauded author of Those Glory Glory Days, 26.2: Running the London Marathon and Out On Your Feet: The World of Hundred-mile Walking.

Praise for The Ghost

Deeply personal - a touching, heartfelt story

Gary Imlach

This book deserves to be read

Jimmy Greaves

Colourful and, at times, moving

Four Four Two

Emotional. [A] marvellously telling and touching book

When Saturday Comes

One of the most affecting sports books of the year

Matt Dickinson, The Times

A gorgeous and moving story

Tom English, Scotland on Sunday

A special book about a special man

Independent on Sunday

Heartfelt and compelling, and includes some superb evocations of football in a bygone era

David Evans, Independent on Sunday