‘England invented soccer, codified it, became champions of the globe in 1966 but humiliatingly then forgot how exactly to play the greatest game of most. England got their attention off a ball they arrogantly thought they owned, permitting other nations to perform off with it.’

It’s been Fifty Years of Harm since Bobby Moore lifted the World Cup trophy at Wembley, and in this groundbreaking book, Henry Winter season will address the state England are in for the golden wedding anniversary of their greatest minute. Component lament, about Fifty Years of Hurt: The Story of England Football and Why We Never End Believing component anatomy of an obsession, both personal and collective, it analyses the reality behind the unlimited excuses, apportions the blame for the offences against English soccer, but is also a seek out hope and solutions.

Fifty Years of Harm weaves more than 40 unique interviews with the largest names in the game – Jack port Charlton, Alan Mullery, Peter Shilton, Glenn Hoddle, John Barnes, Chris Waddle, Gary Lineker, Ian and Mark Wright, Alan Shearer, Michael Owen, Frank Lampard, Steven Gerrard, Roy Hodgson – with a narrative dissection from the highs and lows of five decades of football. And the as players and managers, Henry Wintertime talks to the supporters, to realtors, to officials, towards the governing bodies, about every aspect, good and bad, of English soccer, to supply answers to the query: ‘where did it all fail?’.

It is a separate journey by a writer with vast personal understanding into the national group, with unprecedented access to every area of the overall game, but also by a fan who would like his England back again. The Fifty Many years of Hurt must end.