Best Sports Writing Award

SHORTLIST 2023

Get It On

Get It On

How the '70s Rocked Football

By Jon Spurling

Four years after the crowning glory of 1966, and a decade after the abolition of the maximum wage, a brash new era dawned in English football. Set against a backdrop of strikes, political unrest, freezing winters and glam rock, Get It On tells the inside story of how commercialism, innovation, racism and hooliganism rocked the national game in the 1970s.

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