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Football in the 1980s

Author : Michael Keane
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750989564
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book Football in the 1980s written by Michael Keane and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2018-10-05 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you remember a time when footballers' perms were tighter than their shorts? When supporters still swayed on terraces? When a chain-smoking doctor played central midfield for Brazil? Take a nostalgic stroll back to an era when football on TV was still an occasional treat, when almost anyone could finish runners-up to Liverpool and when finishing fourth in the top flight was not a cause for celebration but a sackable offence! Football in the 1980s is an affectionate look at all the essential facts, stats and anecdotes from the decade before the national game was commercially rebranded. Including both some of modern football's darkest days and its most memorable matches, Football in the 1980s will take you back to a time of tough tackles, muddy pitches and cheap seats. Read on for a grandstand view . . .

What Was Football Like in the 1980s?

Author : Richard Crooks
Publisher : eBook Partnership
ISBN 13 : 178531713X
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (853 download)

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Download or read book What Was Football Like in the 1980s? written by Richard Crooks and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2020-08-03 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What Was Football Like in the 1980s? provides a fascinating and insightful perspective on the game in a decade when football faced major challenges on and off the field. The author's own memories and experiences are augmented by a wealth of research to bring you the definitive account of the clubs, players, managers, referees, grounds, crowds and competitions that defined '80s football. The book examines the Hillsborough, Heysel and Bradford fire tragedies, along with the increasingly commercialised aspects of the game and the evolution of televised football. The scourge of hooliganism - which reached its height in the 1980s - is also given due consideration. What Was Football Like in the 1980s? is an enthralling and illuminating account of a truly remarkable decade for the beautiful game, penned by a respected football author and journalist. How different was the sport 30 to 40 years ago? Richard Crooks gives you the answer, leaving no stone unturned.

The Hidden Game of Football

Author : Bob Newhardt Carroll
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781892129017
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book The Hidden Game of Football written by Bob Newhardt Carroll and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From three recognized football and statistics experts comes a revealing and lively look at the pro game, with new stats, unusual facts and figures, revolutionary strategies, and keys to picking the winners.

Football for a Buck

Author : Jeff Pearlman
Publisher : Mariner Books
ISBN 13 : 0544454383
Total Pages : 397 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (444 download)

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Download or read book Football for a Buck written by Jeff Pearlman and published by Mariner Books. This book was released on 2018 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a multiple New York Times bestselling author, the rollicking, outrageous, you-can't-make-this-up story of the USFL The United States Football League--known fondly to millions of sports fans as the USFL--was the last football league to not merely challenge the NFL, but cause its owners and executives to collectively shudder. It spanned three seasons, 1983-85. It secured multiple television deals. It drew millions of fans and launched the careers of legends. But then it died beneath the weight of a particularly egotistical and bombastic owner--a New York businessman named Donald J. Trump. The league featured as many as 18 teams, and included such superstars as Steve Young, Jim Kelly, Herschel Walker, Reggie White, Doug Flutie and Mike Rozier. In Football for a Buck, the dogged reporter and biographer Jeff Pearlman draws on more than four hundred interviews to unearth all the salty, untold stories of one of the craziest sports entities to have ever captivated America. From 1980s drug excess to airplane brawls and player-coach punch outs, to backroom business deals, to some of the most enthralling and revolutionary football ever seen, Pearlman transports readers back in time to this crazy, boozy, audacious, unforgettable era of the game. He shows how fortunes were made and lost on the backs of professional athletes and also how, thirty years ago, Trump was a scoundrel and a spoiler. For fans of Terry Pluto's Loose Balls or Jim Bouton's Ball Four and of course Pearlman's own stranger-than-fiction narratives, Football for a Buck is sports as high entertainment--and a cautionary tale of the dangers of ego and excess.

Guts and Genius

Author : Bob Glauber
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1538763885
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (387 download)

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Download or read book Guts and Genius written by Bob Glauber and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-20 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How three football legends -- Bill Walsh, Joe Gibbs, and Bill Parcells -- won eight Super Bowls during the 1980s and changed football forever. Bill Walsh, Joe Gibbs and Bill Parcells dominated what may go down as the greatest decade in pro football history, leading their teams to a combined eight championships and developing some of the most gifted players of all time in the process. Walsh, Gibbs and Parcells developed such NFL stars as Joe Montana, Lawrence Taylor, Jerry Rice, Art Monk and Darrell Green. They resurrected the careers of players like John Riggins, Joe Theismann, Doug Williams, Everson Walls and Hacksaw Reynolds. They did so with a combination of guts and genius, built championship teams in their own likeness, and revolutionized pro football like few others. Their influence is still evident in today's game, with coaches who either worked directly for them or are part of their coaching trees now winning Super Bowls and using strategy the three men devised and perfected. In interviews with more than 150 players, coaches, family members and friends, GUTS AND GENIUS digs into the careers of three men who overcame their own insecurities and doubts to build Hall of Fame legacies that transformed their generation and continue to impact today's NFL.

The Super '70s

Author : Tom Danyluk
Publisher : Mad Uke Pub
ISBN 13 : 0977038300
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book The Super '70s written by Tom Danyluk and published by Mad Uke Pub. This book was released on 2005 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in an easy-to-read Q&A format, this volume is full of the stories and firsthand accounts from many of the men who helped shape the 1970s into one of the most exciting and memorable eras in National Football League history.

71/72

Author : Daniel Abrahams
Publisher : eBook Partnership
ISBN 13 : 1801500401
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book 71/72 written by Daniel Abrahams and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2021-10-18 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There was a season when the world's greatest footballers were all on show at British grounds. Best, Keegan, Charlton and Moore were joined by Pele, Cruyff, Beckenbauer and Eusebio, while in the dugouts Clough, Shankly, Revie and Allison duked it out in the closest ever championship title race. That season was 1971/72. As Enoch Powell's rhetoric roared and American Pie topped the pop charts, Britain's footballing culture was simpler purer than the one we know today, with the game played for the public, not for TV companies. It was a time when players shared pints with fans, Topps football cards were schoolyard currency, Roy Race ruled the comic world and videprinters saw footy devotees hold their collective breath every weekend. As well as covering the superstars, 71/72 is a treasure trove of tales of lesserknown names who added to that extraordinary season. Read about the Aldo Poy goal that is still celebrated today, Toni Fritsch revolutionising the NFL, cricketing footballers and the OAP ball boy who rowed the River Severn.

The United States Football League, 1982-1986

Author : Paul Reeths
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476627738
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book The United States Football League, 1982-1986 written by Paul Reeths and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-03-21 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most ambitious (and short-lived) endeavors in professional sports history, the United States Football League was founded in 1982. Premiering with a spring schedule and an abundance of talent that included top rookies and National Football League veterans, the USFL gained national attention with broadcast and cable television contracts, controversial player signings, ownership battles and an unsuccessful billion-dollar lawsuit against the NFL. The USFL folded after four years yet represented the last major challenge to America's big four sports leagues--the NFL, the National Basketball Association, the National Hockey League and Major League Baseball. Based upon extensive research and interviews with owners, coaches, players and administrators, this book chronicles the league's formation, its three seasons of play and its long-term effects on pro sports.

Match

Author : Match
Publisher : Boxtree
ISBN 13 : 9780752226767
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Match written by Match and published by Boxtree. This book was released on 2008 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Match magazine is far and away the biggest selling football magazine for boys; but the success story began all the way back in 1979 -- when the 300,000 parents who buy the Match Annual every year for their children, were football-mad children themselves... Match: Best of the '80s is a funny, fond look back through the Match archives at a decade of big football stories, and even bigger mullets... From the great British triumphs in Europe (Liverpool and Aston Villa), to the classic world cups in Spain and Mexico, to regular columns from Kevin Keegan and Glenn Hoddle, this is the perfect accompaniment to the bestselling children's Annual: the chance to tick several generations of your family off the Christmas list at the same time!

The Hundred Yard Lie

Author : Rick Telander
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252065231
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (652 download)

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Download or read book The Hundred Yard Lie written by Rick Telander and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lead college football writer for Sports Illustrated examines the myths that surround college football and obscure the reality of the game.

The Electrifying 80s

Author : Geoff Slattery
Publisher : Slattery Media Group
ISBN 13 : 9780958528665
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (286 download)

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Download or read book The Electrifying 80s written by Geoff Slattery and published by Slattery Media Group. This book was released on 2019-07-15 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ablett, Brereton, Matthews, Bartlett, Doull, DiPierdomenico, Lockett, Barassi, Hafey, Jeans, Sheedy and Dyer. Just some of the names who made 1980s football a sight (and sound) to behold. If the 1970s was the decade the game went technicolour, the 80s - spanning from the dying days of Richmond’s golden era, through the rise of Allan Jeans’ indestructible Hawks and Kevin Sheedy’s brilliant Bombers, and culminating in the peerless 1989 Grand Final - was heaven for footy purists. In Electrifying 80s, all the outsized characters and eye-popping events of a colourful football decade are brought back to life in the words of an equally impressive cast of football writers, including Mike Sheahan, Trevor Grant, Martin Flanagan, Garrie Hutchinson, Scot Palmer, Garry Linnell and Caroline Wilson. If the action on the field was memorable, so too was the writing of a richly talented and innovative generation of sports journalists. Trawling through a decade of the best writing in the major Melbourne newspapers, editor Russell Jackson has collected the profiles, match reports, columns and feature articles that explain one of the most eventual 10-year stretches in AFL history. Moving from the boardrooms of a financially stricken game, to the windswept terraces of the suburban stadiums which still endured, and into the middle of the ground among a host of all-time greats, readers will delight in the crunching tackles, soaring marks and shocking antics. Reviving memories of cult heroes like Rene Kink, Mark ‘Jacko’ Jackson, Peter Bosustow, Billy Duckworth, Vinny Catoggio, Leon Baker and Warwick Capper, Electrifying 80s is the perfect piece of nostalgia for lovers of the game who cherished the days of flawed heroes, lukewarm pies and the crumbling splendour of the suburban outer, where myths and legends were born.

Football Revolution

Author : Bart Wright
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496209206
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book Football Revolution written by Bart Wright and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2020-03-01 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the last twenty-five years, the most dominant offensive strategy in college football has been the spread offense, which relies on empty backfields, lots of receivers and passing, and no huddles between plays. Where the spread offense started, why it took so long to take hold, and the evolution of its many variations are the much-debated mysteries that Bart Wright sets about solving in this book. Football Revolution recovers a key, overlooked, part of the story. The book reveals how Jack Neumeier, a high school football coach in California in the 1970s, built an offensive strategy around a young player named John Elway, whose father was a coach at nearby California State University, Northridge. One of the elder Elway’s assistant coaches, Dennis Erickson, then borrowed Neumeier’s innovations and built on them, bringing what we now know as the spread offense onto the national stage at the University of Miami in the 1980s. With Erickson’s career as a lens, this book shows how the inspiration of a high school coach became the dominant offense in college football, prepping a whole generation of quarterbacks for the NFL and forever changing the way the game is played.

Football and Migration

Author : Richard Elliott
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317810473
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book Football and Migration written by Richard Elliott and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-19 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Football is an incredibly powerful case study of globalization and an extremely useful lens through which to study and understand contemporary processes of international migration. This is the first book to focus on the increasingly complex series of migratory processes that contour the contemporary game, drawing on multi-disciplinary approaches from sociology, history, geography and anthropology to explore migration in football in established, emerging and transitional contexts. The book examines shifting migration patterns over time and across space, and analyses the sociological dynamics that drive and influence those patterns. It presents in-depth case studies of migration in elite men’s football, exploring the role of established leagues in Europe and South America as well as important emerging leagues on football's frontier in North America and Asia. The final section of the book analyses the movement of groups who have rarely been the focus of migration research before, including female professional players, elite youth players, amateur players and players’ families, drawing on important new research in Ghana, England, Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Few other sports have such a global reach and therefore few other sports are such an important location for cross-cultural research and insight across the social sciences. This book is engaging reading for any student or scholar with an interest in sport, sociology, human geography, migration, international labour flows, globalization, development or post-colonial studies.

The Oklahoma Football Encyclopedia

Author : Ray Dozier
Publisher : Sports Publishing LLC
ISBN 13 : 158261699X
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (826 download)

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Download or read book The Oklahoma Football Encyclopedia written by Ray Dozier and published by Sports Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2006 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oklahoma Football Encyclopedia is an historical description of every University of Oklahoma football game from the beginning in 1895 through 2004. Learn how the team got its start and how coach Bennie Owen laid the foundation for the Sooners to become one of the most respected teams on the college football scene.Bud Wilkinson, Barry Switzer and Bob Stoops later directed the Sooners to college football's elite prize. Wilkinson was a great teacher of the Split-T formation, which guided the Sooners to three national championships, 72 consecutive conference games without a loss and a major college winning streak -- a record that may never be broken. Switzer, a master recruiter, implemented the Wishbone formation, which brought another three national titles and 12 conference crowns to Norman. After the Sooner football program had dropped to mediocrity status, Stoops turned the program around and won the national championship in his second year at the helm.This book provides insight into "Sooner Magic." Many OU football teams appeared to have a supernatural force carry them to victory when victory was not assured. Was it sleight of hand? Smoke and mirrors? No, just pure talent and inspiration helped push the Sooners to the overwhelming tradition the teams have displayed on the gridiron.

African football migration

Author : Paul Darby
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526120291
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book African football migration written by Paul Darby and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The global success of football icons like Samuel Eto’o, Didier Drogba and Mohamed Salah has fuelled the migratory projects of countless young men across the African continent who dream of following – literally and figuratively – in their footsteps. Drawing on over a decade of ethnographic research, African football migration captures and chronicles the aspirations, experiences and trajectories of those pursuing this highly prized form of transnational migration. In doing so, the book uncovers and traces the myriad actors, networks and institutions that affect the ability of young people across the continent to realise social mobility through football’s global production network. The book sheds critical light on the barriers to social mobility erected by neoliberal capitalism, and how these are negotiated by aspiring African footballers. It also generates original interdisciplinary perspectives on the complex interplay between structural forces and human agency, as young players navigate an industry rife with commercial speculation. While a select few reach the elite levels of the game and build a successful career overseas, the book vividly illustrates how for the vast majority, ‘trying their luck’ through football results in involuntary immobility in post-colonial Africa. These findings are complemented by rare empirical insights from transnational African migrants at the margins of the global football industry and those navigating precarious retirement from careers as players. African football migration offers essential coverage of why and how African youth and young men have become actors in the global football industry, revealing the complex implications of transnational mobility, both imagined and enacted.

College Football

Author : Francis L. Willauer, Jr.
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781878637017
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book College Football written by Francis L. Willauer, Jr. and published by . This book was released on 1990-09 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

America's Game

Author : Michael MacCambridge
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307481433
Total Pages : 610 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book America's Game written by Michael MacCambridge and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2008-11-26 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s difficult to imagine today—when the Super Bowl has virtually become a national holiday and the National Football League is the country’s dominant sports entity—but pro football was once a ramshackle afterthought on the margins of the American sports landscape. In the span of a single generation in postwar America, the game charted an extraordinary rise in popularity, becoming a smartly managed, keenly marketed sports entertainment colossus whose action is ideally suited to television and whose sensibilities perfectly fit the modern age. America’s Game traces pro football’s grand transformation, from the World War II years, when the NFL was fighting for its very existence, to the turbulent 1980s and 1990s, when labor disputes and off-field scandals shook the game to its core, and up to the sport’s present-day preeminence. A thoroughly entertaining account of the entire universe of professional football, from locker room to boardroom, from playing field to press box, this is an essential book for any fan of America’s favorite sport.