Wembley Wins Wembley Woes – Jim McCalliog Autobiography – SIGNED

Jim McCalliog fired himself into the Scottish international football history books on the memorable and momentous Saturday afternoon of 15th April 1967 at Wembley stadium.

The 20 year old Sheffield Wednesday midfielder was selected to play for his country at the highest level for the first time against World Cup holders England.

Scotland had been written off as no-hopers that day against a team that had lifted the global prize the previous year and had gone nineteen games without defeat. However, McCalliog, performing alongside his all-time favourite player Denis Law, had other ideas as he thumped the winner before Gordon Banks as the visitors emerged triumphant on a 3-2 scoreline.

It was an extraordinary moment in the remarkable career of one of Scottish football's favourite sons. But this is just one tale among so many. Jim's long-awaited autobiography highlights the rollercoaster ride of a startling odyssey through the beautiful game. It is packed with hitherto unpublished anecdotes that invite you behind the unforgettable emotions of agony and ecstasy of two F.A. Cup Finals at the English football mecca, despair of defeat with Sheffield Wednesday in 1966 and the delight of victory with Southampton in 1976.

Jim discloses the real stories behind the headlines as he takes you on a journey through seventeen eventful years that started on the backstreets of the uncompromising Glasgow district of the Gorbals where a youngster realised playing football had become a vocation.

Jim goes into great detail of the Wembley weekend that changed his life forever. After all these years of silence, all is revealed:

• The real reason he walked out on Don Revie and Leeds United as a fifteen-year-old starry-eyed kid.
• How Celtic missed out twice in signing one of the nation's hottest prospects.
• Life with the incomparable Tommy Docherty at Chelsea and Manchester United.
• The honour of leading Wolves in a European finale.
• The bombshell weekend when he realised his five years at Wolves were coming to an end.
• The despair of Manchester United being relegated in 1974 only six years after winning the European Cup.
• The Southampton experience with Peter Osgood and Mick Channon.
• The astonishment as Lawrie McMenemy took a wrecking ball to his F.A. Cup winners.
• The day he was chased around the pitch by an angry Pele, the world's greatest footballer.
• The agony of the realisation that the final whistle had been blown and the great adventure was over.

There are so many dramatic revelations from a player who became Britain's most expensive teenager in 1965. This is the life story of a player who doesn't hold back as he opens up on his truly exceptional career. Published in 2021.

Note: These books have been autographed by Jim McCalliog.

Size: 160mm x 241mm – 238 pages.