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KEELING  \nPublished byWOLFE PUBLISHING LTD  \n10 EARLHAM STREETLONDON WC2  \n992  \n2.2  \nGiants of Football—current titles  \nISBN 723404526  \n1.GEORGE BESTby DEREK HODGSON  \n2.CHARLIE GEORGE  \nby JASON TOMAS  \nISBN 723404534  \n3.BOBBY CHARLTON  \nISBN 723404542  \nby KEN JONES  \n4.ALAN MULLERY  \nISBN 723404550  \nby DOUG GARDNER  \nISBN 723404569√√  \n5.NOBBY STILES  \nby PETER KEELING  \nISBN 723404577  \n6.PETER OSGOOD  \nby ROB HUGHES  \n\n| WATCH OUT FOR OTHER TITLES   |\n| --- |\n\n◎ Wolfe Publishing Limited 1971√Photographs,unless otherwise acknowledged,by Syndication International.  \nContents  \nCHAPTER ONE  \nThe man who hated to lose  \nCHAPTER TW0  \nThe Co/lyhurst Kid  \nCHAPTER THREE  \nStiles must go  \nCHAPTER FOUR  \nSir Alf Ramsey's big mistake?  \nCHAPTER FIVE  \nHe tackled like a tank  \nCHAPTER SIX  \nSemi-final hoodoo  \nCHAPTER SEVEN  \n'United will never be the same again'  \n96・334ST992  \nPAGE  \n5  \n11  \n19  \n3  \n45  \n52  \n63  \nDigitized by the Internet Archivein 2022 with funding fromKahle/Austin Foundation  \nhttps://archive.org/details/giantsoffootball0000unse  \nTHEY EITHER LOVE him or they hate him,butnobody,certainly not his opponents,can disregardhim.  \nSuch a man is Nobby Stiles,a meek,bespect-acled,almost professorial figure off the footballfield,who is transformed as though by chemistry,into 1501bs.of fighting soccer fury when he swingsinto battle for club or country.  \nHe has been the subject of studies by eminentpsychologists,who have tried to pigeon-hole hisJekyll and Hyde temperament.They found nothingdeep,except what every football supporter inBritain knows,that Nobby Stiles loves to playfootball:and hates to lose.  \nHe has been led with bowed head beforedisciplinary committees,for bursts of tempera-ment on the field that have commanded front pagenewspaper space,and known that he would be backbefore long.  \n# The man who hated to lose\n\nHe was the subject of a witch hunt by FIFAduring the 1964 World Cup which led to Sir AlfRamsey refusing to bend before pressures todrop Stiles after an incident against France.  \nHe went on to become the hero of the greatEngland win in that World Cup at Wembley,and moved into soccer folk-history with that happy,toothless jig of triumph holding the Jules RimetTrophy which was captured with fresco qualityby the television cameras.  \nUntil that stage in his career he had been thevillain,the Mick McManus of soccer,to every-body except the Manchester United fans.  \n# Was it worth it?\n\nHe had been universally hated,and when on allsides people reviled him,and even old ladies inthe street shook their fists at him,he began towonder whether it was all worthwhile.  \nHappily the loyalty of his fellow professionais,and the faith Sir Alf Ramsey put in him allowedpeople to see Nobby Stiles the man,and hisunfortunate early image began to fade.  \nAlways a players'player the lasting view of himwhen he has finished the game he has adorned willbe that he was a great character,and one of themost honest players the game has had.  \nIn fact one of the truest tributes paid to his careerwhen he left Manchester United to join Middles-brough was that the only people to have a badword to say about Nobby were those who didnot know him.  \nBecause he never gave less than 100 per cent,Stiles,as a youngster,always found himself introuble.As he matured he lost none of his fire,but added some control,which was partly con-tributed to by a succession of injuries and cartilageoperations,eventually leading to the biggestdecision of his career in the summer of 1971.  \nA man who had to be involved in first teamfootball,Nobby found that still in his prime att28 and only months after being in a World Cupsquad for the second time,he was no longer an   \n6  \nautomatic choice for the club he had been withfor 14 years.  \nHe spent sleepless nights trying to convincehimself that a move away from Old Traffordwould be good for 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