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The Little Book of England Football is the latest volume in this
highly successful series of sports-themed quotes books. It is
dedicated to all things wide and wonderful about the Three Lions,
focusing on the words of wit and wisdom from former players, such
as Bobby Moore, Gazza and Gary Lineker, to the key men in today's
set-up including manager Gareth Southgate and captain Harry Kane.
Ingerlund! Ingerlund! Ingerlund!
This book includes all the papers presented at a second World
Congress of Science and Football (Liverpool 1987) (Eindhoven).
Few things convey the identity of Britain's towns and cities more
vocally than football and food, yet put them together and they
become incompatible foes. Balti pies served out of tin trays and
rubbery burgers that cost north of a tenner are typical of the
over-the-counter fare that welcomes fans through the turnstile. But
it doesn't have to be that way. As Britain embraces a craft
revolution of locally made produce we, the travelled football fans,
have the unique opportunity to experience the country in a way few
others can. We can feast on cockles and mussels on the south-east
coast, tuck into smack barm and pey wet in Lancashire and drink our
way through an explosion of craft distillers and breweries all in
the name of the club we love. The Great Pie Revolt is the
definitive guide to the cafes, market stalls, takeaways,
microbrewers, pubs and bars that pride themselves on their
locality. It is proof that when paired properly football and food
are a match made in heaven, but both are in dire need of a
spectator-driven revolt.
This book presents a cross-disciplinary examination of the lived
experiences of girls and women football players using theoretical
insights from sports studies, psychology, sociology and gender
studies. It examines the concept of 'the football self' - your own,
personal football identity that encapsulates the importance of
football to our everyday lives - and what that can tell us about
the complex relationships between sport, family, gender and
identity. The book draws on in-depth ethnographic research
involving players and family members, and offers important new
insights into the everyday experiences of those girls and women who
play. It breaks new ground in focusing on the significant
relationships between player and family with a particular focus on
parenting through football. The book brings to the fore key debates
around gender identity, barriers to participation, cultural gaps
and discrimination. The author also brings a personal perspective
to bear, drawing on experience gained over 20 years as a player,
adding an extra critical layer to her important empirical research.
This is essential reading for all researchers and students with an
interest in football, sport studies or issues around gender,
inclusion or the family in sport, and fascinating reading for
anybody generally curious about football.
Football is ubiquitous and a permanent fixture of modern life. More
than a sport, it frequently manifests in broader popular culture.
This book examines the significance of football for, and in,
popular culture across a wide range of forms, including music,
film, and social media. Football and Popular Culture plots a new
path in Football Studies, drawing on original research in countries
including England, Brazil, Germany, Canada, and Yugoslavia. The
book includes both historical and contemporary perspectives,
exploring some of the most important themes in the study of sport
and culture, including identity, nationalism, fandom, and protest.
It presents diverse case studies ranging from sonic violence among
Brazilian torcidas organizadas to fanled commemoration of the
Munich air disaster, which together help us to better understand
the intersection of sport, society, and popular culture. This is
fascinating reading for any student or researcher working in sport
studies, cultural studies, media studies, sociology, or
contemporary history.
Bring out the very best in your young players with these effective
and fun soccer drills. Drills are essential. The groundwork of
every great play, they hone existing skills and get to the heart of
any problem. Challenging and exciting, with the right attitude
drills can also be a lot of fun. Written by an expert youth-soccer
coach with more than twenty-five years of experience on the field,
this exhaustive collection provides all the drills you need to
bring your players to the next level - and have fun doing
it.Whether you're a beginner or an experienced coach, "101 Great
Youth Soccer Drills" will be your helpful assistant at every
practice. The drills in this book are illustrated to show you each
step along the way. Easy to follow and to find, each drill lets you
to teach what you need when you need it, allowing you to design
your own training program based on the level of your players.
Filled with energy, these drills are guaranteed to improve your
players' skills in such areas as: passing; trapping; heading the
ball; shielding the ball from defenders; dribbling and juggling;
protecting the goal; shooting to score; mastering their positions;
and, much more. Designed for daily use, this handy encyclopedia of
drills will be a faithful companion on your journey from coach mom
or dad to true soccer expert. You won't want to step on the
practice field without it.
Dr Scumbrum is an anonymous poet whose work is inspired by 'The
Beautiful Game' and in particular by Bristol Rovers FC. His work
appears regularly in the matchday programme, but this is his first
collection. Proceeds are being donated to Children's Hospice South
West.
All Together Now is one of the great sports stories. It's about a
group of football fans who were determined to right a wrong. The
authorities said they shouldn't try. People in football said it
couldn't be done. Robbed of their beloved club, Wimbledon FC, they
started again. They had absolutely nothing - no experience of
running a club, no players, no manager, nowhere to play. But within
nine years they re-formed their team as AFC Wimbledon, rebuilt its
community work, won six promotions and fought their way back into
the top tiers of the game. En route, they broke records, changed
the rules of football and were the subject of Prime Minister's
Questions. And now they're back in their spiritual home, Wimbledon,
in a brand new stadium. For most of this time Erik Samuelson was
finance director and then CEO of the club. He tells the
extraordinary inside story of how the most undervalued people in
football - the fans - defied the odds to take their club back to
the Football League and return home.
Football fans and football culture represent a unique prism through
which to view contemporary society and politics. Based on in-depth
empirical research into football in Poland, this book examines how
fans develop political identities and how those identities can
influence the wider political culture. It surveys the turbulent
history of Poland in recent decades and explores the dominant
right-wing ideology on the terraces, characterised by nationalism,
'traditional' values and anti-immigrant sentiment. As one of the
first book-length studies of fandom in Eastern Europe, this book
makes an important contribution to our understanding of society and
politics in post-Communist states. Politics, Ideology and Football
Fandom is an important read for students and researchers studying
sport, politics and identity, as well as those working in sports
studies and political studies covering sociology of sport,
globalisation studies, East European politics, ethnic studies,
social movements studies, political history and nationalism
studies.
This fascinating collection brings together leading football
historians and sociologists from the UK, Germany, the USA and
Australia to offer fresh perspectives on the early development of
football (soccer), not only illuminating our understanding of the
early history of the world's most popular sport, but also the
importance of sport in our broader social and cultural history. The
book presents new evidence and fresh perspectives which will inform
the robust debate that has been raging about the origins and early
development of football. It addresses key issues at the centre of
this debate, including the influence of former English public
schoolboys, the development of football subcultures outside of
prestige educational institutions, and the intersection and
divergence of the various football codes around the world. The
Early Development of Football is an important resource for anyone
working in the history of football or sports in general, football
studies or the sociology of sport. It is also a useful read for
those interested in sport management and the development of sports
organisations and rules.
A comprehensive look into early professional football, this
biography of Everton and Liverpool's founding father John Houlding
breaks new ground by addressing the important role of football club
ownership in the early history of the game. Football supporters the
world over are aware of the great rivalry that exists between the
two giants of Merseyside football, Everton and Liverpool. This
rivalry was created out of a split within Everton FC that gave
rise, in 1892, to Liverpool FC. The two clubs subsequently went on
to dominate the English game, amassing twenty-seven English top
flight titles between them, more than any other city in the
country. What isn't as well known is that one man was responsible
for the rise of both clubs: former Lord Mayor of Liverpool, John
Houlding. In The Man Who Created Merseyside Football: John
Houlding, Founding Father of Liverpool and Everton, David Kennedy
recounts the sporting legacy of Houlding. A brewer and Conservative
politician, Houlding was a polarising yet fascinating figure. His
financial input, first at Everton Football Club and then at
Liverpool Football Club, provided the launch pad for the
establishment of two nationally and internationally known sporting
organizations. By the time of his death in 1902, both clubs had
reached the pinnacle of the English game and Houlding's place as
the founding father of professional football in Merseyside was
assured. More than just a football biography, The Man Who Created
Merseyside Football also details the many other aspects of
Houlding's life-a family man, businessman, and local politician
with parliamentary aspirations. His business and political life, in
fact, became entangled in dramatic fashion with the Liverpool
football scene on more than one occasion. The complete story of
this captivating and influential individual is finally told for the
first time in this book, in full and wonderful detail.
Russian businessman Dmitry Rybolovlev ranks in the top 200
wealthiest people in the world, according to Forbes Magazine. Since
December 2011 he has been the Chairman of AS Monaco, regenerating
the famous football club, and taking it from the bottom of the
French Ligue 2 to the semi-finals of the Champions League and the
French Ligue 1 Championship title in 2017. A man of many parts, he
first trained to be an emergency cardiologist, then became an
international businessman, spending eleven months as a prisoner in
a Russian jail for a crime he did not commit, before going on to
transform the fortunes of fertiliser giant Uralkali and listing the
company on the London Stock Exchange. From Russia's Urals Mountains
to Monaco's Stade Louis II, this biography traces the epic saga of
this reserved, determined and enigmatic character. It dissects his
extraordinary story and takes us backstage at this famous football
club, where the transfers and negotiations take place. It
transports us from Rybolovlev's hometown of Perm in eastern Russia
to the private Greek island of Skorpios once owned by Aristotle
Onassis and now the retreat of Rybolovlev and his family. Based on
dozens of interviews with sources from the businessman's past and
present, and with rare access to Dmitry Rybolovlev himself, this is
the complete story.
A lot can happen in 90 minutes. From football's codification in
1863 to the modern era - goals, red cards and even substitutions
have led to some of the strongest and most remarkable sporting
legacies. The game has grown into the world's largest and most
supported sport, with all aspects of modern life being drawn into
its continually expanding empire. This book journeys through
football's incredible history to examine some of the game's most
fascinating minutes of play which, to this day, provoke lasting
memories. These key moments show how there is often far more to a
minute of football than just 60 seconds. The impact can last for
years, decades or centuries. By looking at the history of goals,
finals and even corners we get a clear picture of how football
became the game we know and love today. From the first goal in an
FA Cup Final to Diego Maradona's 'hand of God', The History of
Football in Ninety Minutes (Plus Extra Time) gives fuel to the
notion that every minute in football counts.
As the most popular mass spectator sport across the world, soccer
generates key moments of significance on and off the field,
encapsulated in events that create metaphors and memories, with
wider social, cultural, psychological, political, commercial and
aesthetic implications. Since its inception as a modern game, the
history of soccer has been replete with events that have changed
the organization, meanings and impact of the sport. The passage
from the club to the nation or from the local to the global often
opens up transnational spaces that provide a context for studying
the events that have 'defined' the sport and its followers. Such
defining events can include sporting performances, decisions taken
by various stakeholders of the game, accidents and violence among
players and fans, and invention of supporter cultures, among other
things. The present volume attempts to document, identify and
analyse some of the defining events in the history of soccer from
interdisciplinary and comparative perspectives. It revisits the
discourses of signification and memorialization of such events that
have influenced society, culture, politics, religion, and commerce.
This book was originally published as a special issue of the
journal Soccer & Society.
Scottish Football: Souvenirs from the Golden Years - 1946 to 1986
takes a nostalgic look at Scottish football and mementoes from four
decades when the game was at its (almost) egalitarian and
entertaining best. It was a period with a wide spread of trophy
winners: eight different league champions, 14 clubs sharing the two
main domestic cup competitions, plus trophy successes in Europe for
Celtic, Rangers and Aberdeen, and semi-final near-misses for
Dundee, Dundee United, Dunfermline Athletic, Hibs and Kilmarnock.
This fascinating book also spotlights the British Championship, the
Summer, Drybrough and Texaco Cups plus a host of cult heroes, lost
stadia - and Quiz Ball! Alongside this colourful history are
collectable treasures. It was a time when programmes were succinct
sought-after souvenirs and not bloated corporate catalogues, when
trading cards were useful and informative. Annuals, magazines and
club handbooks also added to our wisdom. We'll never see an era
like '46 to '86 again, so here's your chance to savour it once
more.
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