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Book Synopsis Manchester United 1958-68 by : Iain McCartney
Download or read book Manchester United 1958-68 written by Iain McCartney and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2013-05-15 with total page 961 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive history of Manchester United following the Munich air disaster.
Book Synopsis United The Legendary Years 1958-1968 by : Pat Crerand
Download or read book United The Legendary Years 1958-1968 written by Pat Crerand and published by G2 Entertainment. This book was released on 2016-08-15 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the fascinating story of the rise of Manchester United FC at the end of the 1950s through the 1960s, after the Munich air disaster had sadly wiped out a lot of the great players of the 1950s. The team was rebuilt and great players such as Bobby Charlton and George Best formed the core of the team whose domestic success was exceptional and whose greatness culminated in them becoming the first English team to win the European Cup. This is a fascinating tale, told by 2 of the players who were at the core of the team.
Book Synopsis Manchester United by : David L. Andrews
Download or read book Manchester United written by David L. Andrews and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to offer a rigorous, theoretically grounded treatment of the Manchester United phenomenon, with each chapter from a leading academic addressing a particular aspect of the central theme.
Download or read book Soccer and Disaster written by Paul Darby and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors look at soccer disasters across the globe from air crashes to overcrowding. The causes, consequences and legacies are explored in this book which reveals frightening parallels and important lessons.
Book Synopsis The Day a Team Died by : Frank Taylor
Download or read book The Day a Team Died written by Frank Taylor and published by Souvenir Press. This book was released on 2018-06-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Returning from a European Cup match against Red Star Belgrade, the plane carrying Manchester United's 'Busby Babes' stopped at Munich airport to refuel. On its third attempt to take-off in atrocious weather conditions the plane veered off the runway, crashed and burst into flames. 21 people died, 7 members of the legendary team among them (including Duncan Edwards), and Sir Matt Busby was rushed to hospital in critical condition. The greatest British football team of their generation was destroyed. Frank Taylor was the only journalist on the plane that night to survive and during his hospitalisation wrote this book, revising it extensively 25 years later to include all the subsequent knowledge about the crash. Two surviving members of the Manchester United players on the flight, Bobby Charlton and Bill Foulkes, would recover to play in Manchester United's European Cup victory in 1968. Fifty years afterwards Duncan Edwards is still remembered as having the potential to have been England's greatest player. This is is the definitive, firsthand account of the crash that killed eight members of one of the greatest Manchester United teams in history.
Book Synopsis Reliving the Dream by : Derick Allsop
Download or read book Reliving the Dream written by Derick Allsop and published by Trafalgar Square. This book was released on 1998 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Manchester United are one of the biggest football clubs in the world. Its fame has spread afar, the legend growing out of one man's obsession to take his club to the pinnacle of the European game. Matt Busby, later knighted, was a visionary as well as an exceptional manager, and he defied the establishment by leading his young English champions into Continental combat.
Download or read book Looking North written by Dave Russell and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2004-10 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigating areas as diverse as travel literature, fiction, dialect, the stage, radio, television, feature film, music and sport, this book assesses the portrayal of the North of England within the national culture and how this has impacted upon attitudes to the region and its place within notions of Englishness. The relationship between these cultural forms and the construction of regional identity has received only limited consideration and this fascinating work provides not only much new information, but also a map for future writers. The North, although seen ultimately as other and the subject of much critical comment, is also shown here as capable of stimulating the creative imagination and invigorating English culture in sometimes surprising ways.
Book Synopsis Reliving the Dream by : Derick Allsop
Download or read book Reliving the Dream written by Derick Allsop and published by Mainstream Publishing Company. This book was released on 1998 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Matt Busby was a visionary as well as an exceptional manager of Manchester United, and he defied the establishment by leading his young English champions into Continental combat. That crusade was cruelly savaged in 1958, when eight of his players were killed in the Munich air crash. Busby survived, and rebuilt a side good enough to win the League Championship twice, and a decade after the tragedy, realize the dream in the final against Benfica at Wembley in May 1968. Thirty years on, the modern United are endeavouring to emulate their illustrious forebears. This book celebrates the glory of '68 and includes profiles and interviews with those who played.
Book Synopsis British Sport: Local histories by : Richard William Cox
Download or read book British Sport: Local histories written by Richard William Cox and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume three of a bibliography documenting all that has been written in the English language on the history of sport and physical education in Britain. It lists all secondary source material including reference works, in a classified order to meet the needs of the sports historian.
Book Synopsis The Association Game by : Matthew Taylor
Download or read book The Association Game written by Matthew Taylor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of British football's journey from public school diversion to mass media entertainment is a remarkable one. The Association Game traces British football from the establishment of the earliest clubs in the nineteenth century to its place as one of the prominent and commercialised leisure industries at the beginning of the twenty first century. It covers supporters and fandom, status and culture, big business, the press and electronic media and development in playing styles, tactics and rules. This is the only up to date book on the history of British football, covering the twentieth century shift from amateur to professional and whole of the British Isles, not just England.
Book Synopsis My Manchester United Years by : Bobby Charlton
Download or read book My Manchester United Years written by Bobby Charlton and published by Headline. This book was released on 2014-11-27 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'For me, he is England's greatest ever player' Gary Lineker 'Sir Bobby was a hero to millions, not just in Manchester or the United Kingdom, but wherever football is played around the world' Manchester United FC Sir Bobby Charlton was Manchester United through and through. He was a member of the original Busby Babes and devoted his career to the club, playing in 754 games over 17 years. During that period he won everything the game had to offer, played alongside some of the greats such as Best and Law, suffered devastating defeats and was involved in one of the greatest football tragedies of all time. Here is his story of those United years in his own words. With his beloved Reds he tasted FA Cup victory in the emotional final of 1963, won three first division championships and in 1968 he reached the pinnacle of club success, winning the European Cup. Inevitably, such highs are balanced with no less dramatic lows, such as the 1957 European Cup semi-final, the highly charged 1958 FA Cup loss which followed only weeks after the horrors of the Munich Air disaster, and the 1969 European Cup defeat by Milan. He was one of the true gentlemen of football and the legacy that Sir Bobby Charlton gave to United is beyond compare. RIP Sir Bobby Charlton 1937-2023
Book Synopsis The European Ritual by : Anthony King
Download or read book The European Ritual written by Anthony King and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Football constitutes a vivid public ritual in contemporary European culture through which emergent social solidarities and new economic networks have come into being. This fascinating and unique volume traces the transformation of European football from the 1950s to the present, focusing in particular on the dramatic changes that have occurred in the last decade and linking them to the wider process of European integration. The examination of football illuminates how the growing dominance of the free market has changed European society from an international order in which the nation-state was dominant to a more complex transnational regime in which cities and regions are becoming more prominent than in the past. The study is supported by detailed ethnographic accounts emerging from the author's fieldwork at Manchester United and interview data with some of the most important figures in European football at clubs including Juventus, Milan, Bayern Munich, Schalke and Barcelona. It also includes a highly topical examination of racism in European football.
Book Synopsis Sporting Sounds by : Anthony Bateman
Download or read book Sporting Sounds written by Anthony Bateman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-10-27 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sporting Sounds presents an eclectic collection of essays, all of which are concerned with various relationships between sport and music. This unique book includes a range of international case studies, examines the use of music as a motivational aid for players, and the historical roots of music in sport.
Book Synopsis The Lost Babes: Manchester United and the Forgotten Victims of Munich by : Jeff Connor
Download or read book The Lost Babes: Manchester United and the Forgotten Victims of Munich written by Jeff Connor and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2009-09-03 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A moving story of how a legendary football team was lost to tragedy – and how this disaster irrevocably altered the lives of the survivors and the bereaved families, and ultimately brought shame on the biggest football club in the world.
Book Synopsis Building the Dynasty by : Iain McCartney
Download or read book Building the Dynasty written by Iain McCartney and published by Pitch Publishing. This book was released on 2018-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive history of Manchester United's rise from an 'ordinary' side in the 30s to a force in post-war English football. Discover the story of untried manager Matt Busby, Jimmy Murphy and the birth of the 'Babes'. The players, the games, the Building of the Dynasty - and the unfulfilled European dream which became a nightmare in Munich, 1958.
Book Synopsis Routledge Handbook of Sport and Corporate Social Responsibility by : Juan Luis Paramio Salcines
Download or read book Routledge Handbook of Sport and Corporate Social Responsibility written by Juan Luis Paramio Salcines and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the role of sport in society becomes ever more prominent and as sports organisations become increasingly influential members of the global community, so it has become more important than ever for sport to consider its wider social responsibilities. The Routledge Handbook of Sport and Corporate Social Responsibility is the first book to offer a comprehensive survey of theories and concepts of CSR as applied to sport, and the social, ethical and environmental aspects of sport business and management. It offers an overview of perspectives and approaches to CSR in sport, examines the unique features of the sport industry in relation to CSR, explores the tools, models, common pitfalls and examples of best practice on which managers can draw, and discusses how CSR and corporate citizenship can be integrated into the sport management curriculum. The book covers every key issue and functional area, including implementation, strategic benefits, communication and corporate image, stakeholder engagement, and the measurement and evaluation of CSR policies and practices, and includes detailed international case studies, from the NBA and the Olympic Games to Japanese soccer. The Routledge Handbook of Sport and Corporate Social Responsibility is important reading for any student, researcher, manager or policy maker with an interest in sport business, management, ethics or development.
Book Synopsis Reliving the Dream by : Derick Allsop
Download or read book Reliving the Dream written by Derick Allsop and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-09-23 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Manchester United are one of the biggest football clubs in the world. Their fame has spread to the most remote corners on earth. The legend grew out of one man's obsession with taking his club to the pinnacle of the European game. Matt Busby was a visionary as well as an exceptional manager, and he defied the Establishment by leading his young English champions into Continental combat. That crusade was cruelly savaged in 1958 when eight of his players were killed in the Munich air crash. Busby survived and, amazingly, rebuilt a side - including the revered trinity of Charlton, Law and Best - which was good enough to win the League Championship twice and, just a decade after the tragedy, realise the dream in that mesmeric final against Benificia. England had its first champions of Europe. This book celebrates the glory of '68 in the company of the Wembley heroes and traces the club's decline and regeneration into a force aspiring to relive the ultimate dream.
