Neil Balme
A Tale of Two Men
$31.09
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
16 August 2022
Summary
‘You’ve got to have that madness in your mind to win, win, win. You’ve got to have that somewhere, but it can’t consume you.’
The singular story of football’s hardest man and sharpest mind.
This story begins in infamy. Everyone’s first glimpse of the man is of ferocious blows struck in grand finals, his name splashed in headlines across the back pages of the tabloids. It’s the 1970s, it’s Richmond: kill or be killed.
There was a time when almost every football watcher …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781761042102 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1761042106 |
| Author: | Anson Cameron, Neil Balme |
| Publisher: | Penguin Australia Pty Ltd |
| Imprint: | Viking Australia |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 16 August 2022 |
| Weight: | 476g |
| Dimensions: | 1mm x 1mm x 1mm |
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About The Author
Anson Cameron
Anson Cameron (Author)
Anson Cameron has written six critically acclaimed novels- Silences Long Gone, Tin Toys, Confessing the Blues, Lies I Told About a Girl, and Stealing Picasso, as well as two collections of short stories, Nice Shootin’ Cowboy and Pepsi Bears and Other Stories, and the childhood memoir Boyhoodlum. His most recent novel is The Last Pulse (2014). He was born in Shepparton in 1961 and lives in Melbourne where he writes a column for the Age newspaper.
Neil Balme (Author)
Neil Balme began playing for Richmond aged twenty in 1970. An uncompromising forward/ruckman, he played a key role in the 1973 and 1974 premierships, before retiring as a player in 1979. He then coached SANFL side Norwood to two premierships before coaching the Melbourne Demons. As head of football at Collingwood, he oversaw two grand finals. As Geelong’s head of football he enjoyed three premierships, and since returning to his old home of Richmond as head of football, he has overseen another three premierships - so far.
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