JON SPURLING RECALLS WHAT FOOTBALL WAS REALLY LIKE IN THE 1980S...…

MY NEW book Go To War is about 1980s football and its prime movers and shakers at clubs like Liverpool, Everton, Aston Villa and Arsenal, including some of the leading players and managers.
But to show what kind of an era it was, it also encompasses heavy hitting Conservative Party politicians like Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, a new breed of club executives like media mogul Robert Maxwell, whose media profile was on an upward trajectory, and Lord Justice Taylor, whose findings in 1989 and subsequent repor...