The
Boy Wonders: Duncan Edwards, Wayne Rooney and the Changing Face of
Football, by Colin Malam (2006)
IN THIS book, Colin Malam not only examines the glittering careers of two of the greatest post-war English players, but charts some of the massive changes in English football that accompanied them along the way.
Thanks to the abolition of the maximum wage, the Bosman ruling and an avalanche of television money, Wayne Rooney earns more in a week than Duncan Edwards - who tragically died after the Munich air disaster in 1958 - could in 100 years.
At the same time, Rooney is beset by problems beyond Edwards' ken. Duncan could go to work on the bus, but Wayne cannot step outside his door without being monitored by an intrusive media.
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