Two Brothers

Shortlisted for Football Book of the Year (Sports Book Awards)

''Gripping'' Daily Mail

''Moving... chronicles two remarkable lives'' Guardian

''Razor-sharp tactical analysis'' Irish Independent

''Wilson is a fine, nuanced writer'' Times Literary Supplement

The story of Jack and Bobby Charlton, and a family that characterised English football for decades

In later life Jack and Bobby didn''t get on and barely spoke but the lives of these very different brothers from the coalfield tell the story of late twentieth-century English football: the tensions between flair and industry, between individuality and the collective, between right and left, between middle- and working-classes, between exile and home.

Jack was open, charismatic, selfish and pig-headed; Bobby was guarded, shy, polite and reserved to the point of reclusiveness. They were very different