Stan Anderson : Captain of the North ~ £17.99
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Mark Douglas in the Sunday Sun :- "An enjoyable trawl through a pretty special career. Compiled partly from notes and diaries he kept during his time in the game, it is an exhaustive account of a proper football man."
Gordon Sharrock in The Bolton News :-   Now into his 70s and living in Doncaster, Anderson – who, like Malcolm Allison, was regarded as a player well ahead of his time – has told the story of his amazing career with characteristic honesty and wry humour in an entertaining and informative autobiography in which he lifts the lid on his brief spell at Burnden Park. Introduction to the book by Jim Montgomery, Jimmy Greaves and Bryan 'Pop' Robson   

From Fly Me to the Moon - Boro Fanzine

I've just finished the book and found it an absolutely fascinating insight into post war football in the north east. Stan waxes lyrical about his philosophy of attractive, passing football and having been a member of 1962 World Cup party has much to say about England's approach to big tournaments right down to the present.

Stan lifts the lid on why some players never turned it on away from home and reveals how others paid dearly for their fondness for alcohol. There are bribery scandals in Greece. Scandalous tackles from Johnny Giles. Stan tells it straight about Raich Carter's man management or lack of. I just found it incredible going back over games and seasons in English football after the war from someone with a quite incredible memory for detail.
I'll be there and I would urge you to join me, buy the book and get it signed. It was written with Mark Metcalfe, a Yorkshire based writer who has a preference for Stan's first team. They play in red and white stripes. We'll say no more about that but he's done a cracking job.
Stan Anderson was my first Boro manager and being a kid at the time I knew so little about him. Now, thanks to his book, I can truly appreciate the achievements of the miner's son from Horden, County Durham.
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Born in the Durham mining village of Horden, Stan Anderson didn't go far from home in a playing career that spanned more than 500 games. He was a midfield player with Sunderland, Newcastle United and Middlesbrough, the north east's big three. And he was the only player to captain them all.
Good enough to win two England caps and be a member of the England squad for the 1962 World Cup finals in Chile, Stan played in the same Sunderland team as Len Shackleton, another star to turn out for Newcastle and Sunderland, Brian Clough and Ron Revie, two men who made an indelible mark on football management. Stan chose that route, too, replacing another Sunderland legend, Raich Carter, as manager of Middlesbrough in April 1966 before he, too, was succeeded by another illustrious son of the north east in Jack Charlton.  
Stan then moved further afield, spending a year Greek football, managing AEK Athens, before returning briefly to Queens Park Rangers and then back north to Doncaster. He stayed for three years before joining Bolton Wanderers, giving up management in 1981 to care for his wife Marjorie. The book is full of fascinating stories of an era when players still suffered under a maximum wage and a feudal system that tied them to their clubs. Stan tells how Sunderland twice tried to stop him collecting what he was due.