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For younger Arsenal fans raised on an annual diet of success, it is hard to believe that the club has ever known bad times. Yet until Bertie Mee - an ex-army medical corps sergeant whose playing career amounted to a handful of games for Mansfield - restored the glories of the past, the club's once proud name had become a byword for disappointment and disarray.Bertie Mee- An Officer and a Gentleman examines the life, management style and relationships of the man who helped to lay the foundations of the modern Arsenal. It studies the club's years in decline, the achievements of the early '70s and the surprisingly swift descent into the relegation battles and in-fighting that dogged Mee's final seasons at Highbury. It also acknowledges Mee's innovative work in the health service, his role in the emergence of Watford as one of the country's leading clubs and reveals a devoted family man. Under the astute leadership of a man who joined the club as physiotherapist, Arsenal ended 17 years in the football wilderness with a night of European triumph in the spring of 1970 and, 12 months later, completed the Double when they won both the Football League and FA Cup. Mee remains the last Engli

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David Tossell's research and interviews with family, friends and former colleagues of Mee gets to the heart of his rise and fall (Book of the Week) The Sunday Times 20050731 A lovely biography about a lovely man ... very well researched Soccer Coach

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David Tossell has been a sports journalist for more than 20 years and is currently Head of European Public Relations for the NFL. His previous publications include Playing for Uncle Sam and Seventy-One Guns- The Year of the First Arsenal Double.

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