The sports book with the greatest title of all time – no, not the one called The Greatest about Muhammad Ali – is becoming available in paperback for the first time.
It is 20 years since Alan Hudson, once the darling of Stamford Bridge, first published The Working Man’s Ballet.
That brilliant characterising of football into four succinct words helped this autobiography by the maverick genius of Chelsea and, altogether too briefly, England, become a cult classic.
Yet the title was by no means the only phrase as dazzling as the footwork of this midfield maestro.