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In Search of the Double! - Sunderland AFC 1912/13 (Paperback)
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In Search of the Double! - Sunderland AFC 1912/13 (Paperback)
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List price R402
Loot Price R329
Discovery Miles 3 290
You Save R73 (18%)
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For most supporters of Sunderland AFC, the history of their club
would probably be best represented by the names of the mid 1930s
team, particularly Gurney and Carter, undoubted Wearside football
legends. The name of Charlie Buchan also looms large even today in
the tale of a football club whose history can be cut like a knife.
Although Charlie Buchan might still be a revered figure on
Wearside, his team mates aren't and yet the 1912/13 season, which
is the subject of this book, produced arguably the fi nest
Sunderland team ever to grace the famous red and white striped
shirts. It came the closest the club has ever come to winning the
double, almost became the first English football club to achieve it
in the 20th century, yet the names of Albert Milton, Frank Cuggy,
Jackie Mordue and the rest of Sunderland's league champions and FA
Cup finalists that season have long since been cast into the annals
of the club's history. Even the football club's near talismanic and
perhaps finest ever captain Charlie Thomson is seemingly forgotten.
The was team guided by Bob Kyle, Sunderland AFC's longest serving
manager, he too also forgotten. This book looks at the matches and
the characters that shaped an immensely successful 1912/13 season.
Although they were crowned league champions, perhaps an enduring
highlight, although it ultimately ended in defeat, was the now
legendary FA Cup final which took place at The Crystal Palace in
April 1913, before a world record crowd. For the first time in the
20th Century England's top two football teams contested for the
most coveted domestic knockout cup competition in world football
and what a tale it tells; an iconic match. Finally, to give the
book a social context and a flavour of the times, we have captured
the main news stories of the 1912/13 period which includes some
momentous incidents such as the sinking of the Titanic; another
iconic event.
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