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Twenty Football Towns

Author : Steve Leach
Publisher : Saraband
ISBN 13 : 1912235927
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Twenty Football Towns written by Steve Leach and published by Saraband. This book was released on 2020-08-06 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In our world of global superstar footballers, it’s easy to forget the grassroots of a sport where loyalty to a hometown club is often rock solid – and counts for everything. Even as local communities come under threat, football fandom still pulls us together. But why is this? What is the special magic that connects towns and teams? For many of us, the local club offers it all: passion, hope, heartache, drama. And a sense of belonging. The town where we grew up and all the places we’ve lived are the bedrock of our lives, and memories of seeing the local team play are inextricably intertwined with our sense of place and identity. Steve Leach spends a year visiting the twenty towns and clubs that are special to him. He celebrates the distinctiveness of these places, the fascinating differences between Lincoln and Leyton, Barrow and Birmingham, Macclesfield and Morecambe – towns and teams that may not be glamorous, but they are unique and, more importantly, they are home.

A TALE OF TWO FOOTBALL TOWNS & MILLWALL F.C.

Author : Joe Broadfoot
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 129101392X
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book A TALE OF TWO FOOTBALL TOWNS & MILLWALL F.C. written by Joe Broadfoot and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-08 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Playing with distinction on the right wing, Joe Broadfoot Sr played in all four professional divisions in England between 1958 and 1968. Joe had two stints with Millwall, two spells with Ipswich Town and a brief 'flirtation' with Northampton Town in their one and only season in the top flight.

Panini UK Football Sticker Collections 1986-1993 (Volume Two)

Author : Panini
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 139940525X
Total Pages : 610 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (994 download)

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Download or read book Panini UK Football Sticker Collections 1986-1993 (Volume Two) written by Panini and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-10-26 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A football fan's dream come true – every complete UK Panini sticker album 1986-1993 reproduced as facsimiles for the very first time. 'This book delivers a thousand memories' – Mark Lawrenson WELCOME TO THE GLORIOUS WORLD OF PANINI FOOTBALL STICKERS. Collecting PANINI football stickers has always been a joy. Tearing open those packets and excitedly filling an album is a rite of passage for millions of kids - and adults. It's so popular, it even has its own language - 'swapsies', 'got, got, need' and 'shinies'. Licensed by PANINI, this landmark illustrated book showcases PANINI'S UK domestic football 1986-1993. All the great teams of this era are shown in full PANINI sticker album glory. Inside the book: – Nearly 4,000 images of iconic PANINI stickers, album covers and sticker packet designs. – Hundreds of clubs including Manchester United, Liverpool, Chelsea, Arsenal, Celtic, Rangers, Manchester City, Spurs, Newcastle United, Dundee United, Nottingham Forest, Sunderland, Aston Villa, Aberdeen and West Ham United. – Photographs and pen portraits of the great players of the day, such as Peter Beardsley, Chris Waddle, Mark Hughes, Gary Lineker. Bryon Robson, Paul Gascoigne, Alan Shearer, Eric Cantona, Ian Rush and John Barnes.

King Football

Author : Michael Oriard
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
ISBN 13 : 080786403X
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book King Football written by Michael Oriard and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2005-12-15 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This landmark work explores the vibrant world of football from the 1920s through the 1950s, a period in which the game became deeply embedded in American life. Though millions experienced the thrills of college and professional football firsthand during these years, many more encountered the game through their daily newspapers or the weekly Saturday Evening Post, on radio broadcasts, and in the newsreels and feature films shown at their local movie theaters. Asking what football meant to these millions who followed it either casually or passionately, Michael Oriard reconstructs a media-created world of football and explores its deep entanglements with a modernizing American society. Football, claims Oriard, served as an agent of "Americanization" for immigrant groups but resisted attempts at true integration and racial equality, while anxieties over the domestication and affluence of middle-class American life helped pave the way for the sport's rise in popularity during the Cold War. Underlying these threads is the story of how the print and broadcast media, in ways specific to each medium, were powerful forces in constructing the football culture we know today.

Rooting for the Home Team

Author : Daniel A. Nathan
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252094859
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Rooting for the Home Team written by Daniel A. Nathan and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rooting for the Home Team examines how various American communities create and maintain a sense of collective identity through sports. Looking at large cities such as Chicago, Baltimore, and Los Angeles as well as small rural towns, suburbs, and college towns, the contributors consider the idea that rooting for local athletes and home teams often symbolizes a community's preferred understanding of itself, and that doing so is an expression of connectedness, public pride and pleasure, and personal identity. Some of the wide-ranging essays point out that financial interests also play a significant role in encouraging fan bases, and modern media have made every seasonal sport into yearlong obsessions. Celebrities show up for big games, politicians throw out first pitches, and taxpayers pay plenty for new stadiums and arenas. The essays in Rooting for the Home Team cover a range of professional and amateur athletics, including teams in basketball, football, baseball, and even the phenomenon of no-glove softball. Contributors are Amy Bass, Susan Cahn, Mark Dyreson, Michael Ezra, Elliott J. Gorn, Christopher Lamberti, Allison Lauterbach, Catherine M. Lewis, Shelley Lucas, Daniel A. Nathan, Michael Oriard, Carlo Rotella, Jaime Schultz, Mike Tanier, David K. Wiggins, and David W. Zang.

Panini UK Football Sticker Collections 1978-1985

Author : Panini
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1399405233
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (994 download)

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Download or read book Panini UK Football Sticker Collections 1978-1985 written by Panini and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A FINANCIAL TIMES BEST SPORTS BOOK OF 2022 A football fan's dream come true – every complete UK PANINI sticker album 1978-1985 reproduced together for the very first time. 'This book delivers a thousand memories'. Mark Lawrenson 'Swapsies', 'Got, Got, Need' and 'Shinies'... This landmark illustrated book is a fantastic feast of nostalgia for any football fan of a certain age. PANINI albums were a must-have if you were a football-mad kid growing up in the late 70s and 80s, when player stickers were bought, bartered and collected in a treasured rite of passage. This book will bring back all those 'I had that one', 'I'd forgotten about him' and 'look at that haircut!' memories as well as providing in-depth details on all the players and teams of the era. Licensed by PANINI, this is a comprehensive collection of PANINI'S UK domestic football albums from 1978 to 1985 inclusive. Covering all English First Division and Scottish Premier teams, it features not only all the great teams and players of the era, but the one-season wonders and the also-rans as well. Inside the book: – Nearly 5,000 images of iconic PANINI stickers, album covers and sticker packet designs. – Hundreds of clubs including Manchester United, Liverpool, Chelsea, Arsenal, Celtic, Rangers, Manchester City, Spurs, Newcastle United, Dundee United, Nottingham Forest, Sunderland, Aston Villa, Aberdeen and West Ham United. – Photographs and pen portraits of the great players of the day, such as Bryan Robson, Glenn Hoddle, Kevin Keegan, Ossie Ardiles, Ian Rush and John Barnes, plus World Cup winners in the twilight of their careers and young stars in the making, like Peter Beardsley, Chris Waddle, Mark Hughes and Gary Lineker.

The Rough Guide to Cult Football

Author : Rough Guides
Publisher : Rough Guides UK
ISBN 13 : 1405387963
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book The Rough Guide to Cult Football written by Rough Guides and published by Rough Guides UK. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rough Guide to Cult Football is the ultimate companion to the beautiful game. The only football book of its kind, it goes beyond the usual back page material to uncover the most amazing stories and unlikeliest personalities on Planet Football. It reveals the stories behind the mavericks and cult figures that make up the real heroes of the game - from cultured midfielders to jailbirds, drinkers to hard men, local legends to international wanderers. The Rough Guide to Cult Football looks at everything from special clubs - like the New York Cosmos and Berwick Rangers - to managers and football rivalries - from 'El Clásico' to the Faroe Islands derby, via an unusual roll-call of talent that stretches from Ferenc Puskas to Stan Bowles, Eric Cantona to Jose Chilavert and Garrincha to Perry Groves. It also recalls extraordinary games, from 'The Battle of Highbury' to underdog fixtures where the likes of Northern Ireland, Wimbledon and Dynamo Kiev overcame the might of Spain, Liverpool and the Nazis. Post-match analyses of football culture, ephemera, science and some strange statistics, complete this ultimate fiesta of football fun.

The Man Who Built the National Football League

Author : Chris Willis
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810876701
Total Pages : 505 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book The Man Who Built the National Football League written by Chris Willis and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2010-08-19 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Founded in 1920, the National Football League chose famed athlete Jim Thorpe as its first president, a position he held briefly until a successor was elected. From 1921 to 1939, Joe F. Carr guided the sport of professional football with intelligence, hard work, and a passion that built the foundation of what the NFL has become: the number one sports organization in the world. During his eighteen-year tenure as NFL President, Carr created the organization's first Constitution & By-Laws; implemented the standard player's contract; wrote the NFL's first-ever Record and Fact Book; helped split the NFL into two divisions and establish the NFL's World Championship Game; started keeping league statistics; and developed the NFL Draft. But Carr's greatest achievement was creating a vision for the NFL as a big-city sport. By skillfully recruiting financially capable owners to operate NFL franchises in big market cities, he created the solid foundation for the league's successful future. While the sport has grown to unheard of heights, Carr's name and accomplishments have been lost and forgotten. The Man Who Built the National Football League: Joe F. Carr captures the life and career of this pivotal figure in professional sports, chronicling the many achievements of a man whose vision helped shaped what the NFL is today. With unlimited access and complete cooperation from the Carr family—including family interviews, personal letters, and family photos—as well as NFL League Minutes, Willis recounts the fascinating life and career of a man dedicated to the game.

Rebellion - The Inside Story of Football's Protest Movement

Author : Dougie Brimson
Publisher : Kings Road Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1784185418
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (841 download)

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Download or read book Rebellion - The Inside Story of Football's Protest Movement written by Dougie Brimson and published by Kings Road Publishing. This book was released on 2016-09-29 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the great joys of football fandom is that it provides the perfect opportunity to complain and make a point. For example, the referee was biased, the overpaid strikers hopeless, attendance poor, the tea weak and the pies inedible. That, for many fans, is a part of the attraction which football holds for them. Yet every so often, a situation will arise at a club where passive complaint is simply not enough - occasions where big business or individual greed set out to exploit those who walk through the turnstiles, where freedoms are curtailed or where incompetent management is ruining a proud legacy. Against these indignations, there comes a point when it is action and not words that are required. "Rebellion" is about those situations.Using anecdotes and interviews with the people at the heart of the movements, as well as ordinary fans, it examines many of the well-known protests and looks at how and why certain groups of fans succeeded in their particular battle. Just as importantly, it also looks at why other campaigns failed and how, all too often, those protests simply degenerated into ugly violence, hooliganism and intimidation.From the stratosphere of the Premiership to the lowest reaches of the national league, the author examines the greatest outcries of British football and investigates the tense, and at times, violent atmosphere behind each one: a gripping expose of organised dissent and disorganised ruckus.

Real Football

Author : Stephen Harlan Norwood
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 9781578066636
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (666 download)

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Download or read book Real Football written by Stephen Harlan Norwood and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2004 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 1960s, professional football has been America's most popular sport. This book explores the culture of football from the inside-from the players' perspective-the game the fans never see. Conversations are with eight top athletes, men who played in the National Football League for at least ten years, and with another who coached football for forty-five years. The players analyze the mental, physical, and emotional experience of the game at the high school, college, and professional levels, and at nearly every gridiron position. The author chooses his subjects carefully and finds articulate interpreters of this hard-edged experience. The author and the players discuss in depth a wide range of topics, including masculinity, injury, and pain, big-time college recruiting, college athletes and academics, relations with fathers and coaches, encounters with Jim Crow and desegregation, and strikes and labor relations in the NFL. Yielding full pictures of their lives and careers, these athletes go on to explore aging and their adjustments to retirement.

Real Football

Author :
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1617034649
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Real Football written by and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Football Uncyclopedia

Author : Michael Kun
Publisher : Clerisy Press
ISBN 13 : 1578603757
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (786 download)

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Download or read book Football Uncyclopedia written by Michael Kun and published by Clerisy Press. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a blend of statistical analysis, opinion, love for the game, and a healthy dash of humor, authors Michael Kun and Adam Hoff challenge the myths and beliefs that have long afflicted football. No subject is off limits. The greatness of the 1972 Miami Dolphins? Skewered. America's Team? Put in its place. Pittsburgh's Berkowitz Fish Sandwich? Praised, obviously. Joe Namath? Well, he gets a little bit of everything. The Football Uncyclopedia gives equal time to owners and champions, stadiums and cities. It rushes to the defense of everyone from Shaun Alexander to Kurt Warner and of everything from the Heisman Trophy to Randall Cunningham's marble business. It focuses on player legacies, NFL history, and hot-button issues, but it also delves into topics like celebrity misbehavior, on-air kisses, and the film Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. The Football Uncyclopedia covers the names, the nuances, and everything in between that make football an enduring American phenomenon.

Football

Author : Francis Marshall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 542 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Football written by Francis Marshall and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Female Football Spectators in Britain 1863-1939

Author : Robert Lewis
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000883116
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Female Football Spectators in Britain 1863-1939 written by Robert Lewis and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-05-30 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses women as spectators at men’s association football (soccer) in Britain from 1863 to 1939. The author shows that women have always been present at men’s football in Britain, a fact not always acknowledged in modern popular accounts of the game, albeit as a small minority in overall attendances. Some women have always been ‘authentic’ fans of football, both knowledgeable and enthusiastic in their support, and this book will demonstrate that.

Saints in the Broken City

Author : Casey Schreiber
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476662606
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Saints in the Broken City written by Casey Schreiber and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Telling the story of Saints football in New Orleans is a way to understand larger social, political and economic conditions during pivotal moments of the city's history. This book is the first to explore the team's role in rebuilding the city following Hurricane Katrina. The author documents New Orleans' initial efforts to attract professional football, the Katrina disaster and some successes and failures during 10 years of post-disaster recovery. The narrative of community recovery and cohesion crafted by Saints fans transcends racial divides and illustrates the relationship between professional sports and the American city. The voices of female fans--largely overlooked in the study of sports--compel a more inclusive definition of football fandom.

Saturday, 3pm

Author : Daniel Gray
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472925122
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (729 download)

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Download or read book Saturday, 3pm written by Daniel Gray and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-10-06 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Overpaid players. Sunday lunchtime kick-offs. Absurd ticket prices. Non-black boots. Football's menu of ills is long. Where has the joy gone? Why do we bother? Saturday, 3pm offers a glorious antidote. It is here to remind you that football can still sing to your heart. Warm, heartfelt and witty, here are fifty short essays of prose poetry dedicated to what is good in the game. These are not wallowing nostalgia; they are things that remain sweet and right: seeing a ground from the train, brackets on vidiprinters, ball hitting bar, Jimmy Armfield's voice, listening to the results in a traffic jam, football towns and autograph-hunters. This is fan culture at its finest, words to transport you somewhere else and identify with, words to hide away in a pub and luxuriate in. Saturday, 3pm is a book of love letters to football and a clarion call, helping us find the romance in the game all over again.

The American Football League

Author : Ed Gruver
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 9780786486601
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (866 download)

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Download or read book The American Football League written by Ed Gruver and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2011-01-14 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unable to buy into an existing team and rebuffed by National Football League owners who had no desire to expand, 27-year-old Lamar Hunt, the son of Texas billionaire H.L. Hunt, formed the American Football League in 1959. He placed his team in Dallas, called them the Texans, and invited other young entrepreneurs to join him. The seven men who did called themselves members of the "Foolish Club," but on September 9, 1960, the AFL made its regular season debut and went on to change the face of football forever. Unlike the NFL, the American Football League featured wide open offenses and innovative coaching strategies, capturing a new generation of fans dedicated to the league and its players. The AFL aggressively pursued college stars--Heisman Trophy winner Billy Cannon in its inaugural season and Joe Namath in 1965. The eight teams signed a collective television agreement that split the money equally among the franchises, thus providing far more stability and balance than earlier start-up leagues. Based on interviews with owners, coaches, players, scouts, broadcasters and writers from the era, this is a colorful account of the AFL and its place in sports history.