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Does the sight of half-scarves enrage you? Does transfer-deadline
day make you want to throw a brick through the TV? Do the opening
bars of goal music make your ears bleed? If the answer is 'yes',
then this could be the book for you. Since English football's very
own 'Year Zero' in 1992, the game has changed beyond recognition,
rejecting the rough-and-ready days of the past. And like any
change, not all of it has been welcome. The quality of the
'football product' might be better but it's come with spiralling
levels of debt, yawning inequality and Neymar advertising
batteries. These, and many other ills of the modern game, form Jim
Keoghan's exploration of the nation's favourite pastime. Navigating
a world populated by dodgy owners, celebrity referees and Ray
Winstone's floating head, he searches for an answer to the
question: Is it Just Me or is Modern Football S**t?
Evertonians know what it is to experience greatness. Since the club
first came to life in 1878 there have been titles won, European
adventures and trips to Wembley. The fans have seen records broken,
legends make their mark, matches of undeniable class. Every decade
that Everton have been in existence has yielded moments of wonder,
games that supporters at the time have cherished for their entire
lives and which fans of subsequent generations have looked back on
with undeniable pride. From the earliest days, when St Domingo's
first morphed into something recognisable as a modern football
club, the whole span of Everton's narrative is covered here. Those
earliest title wins, those earliest finals, Dean, Lawton, Hickson,
the Holy Trinity, Latchford, the glory of Kendall, the agony of
Wimbledon, the joy of Royle and restoration under Moyes. Everton
Greatest Games is more than just a selection of the moments that
have stirred the soul of Blues. It is the story of Everton, the
tale of how a church team grew into an English giant.
The 1990s, what a time to be an Evertonian! After a decade of
success in the 1980s which saw cup and league wins, the 1990s
brought brushes with relegation, financial ups and downs, a club
drifting without purpose; it was a decade that saw Everton fall
irrevocably off the pace, abandoning a long-held position as a
member of English football's elite. There were still some games
which won't fade from the memory, silverware and moments of
unadulterated elation. Highs, Lows and Bakayokos explores a period
of transformation for one of the game's oldest and grandest clubs;
evaluates the causes of Everton's troubles; examines why peers
raced away, grasping the opportunities presented by the new Premier
League era; and ultimately sets out to rescue and redefine an
unfairly maligned decade and its emotional intensity and capacity
to thrill that has perhaps been all-too-absent for Evertonians in
the recent era of stability.
How to Run a Football Club is the story of our national game. Told
through a journey up the pyramid, from the muddy pitches and
ramshackle changing rooms at grass-roots level to the glitz and
glamour of the Premier League, the book explores that common theme
that links the game at all levels - the simple love of the sport.
It's there in the volunteer coaches who give up their Saturday
mornings to teach kids how to play, the non-league club secretaries
trying their best to get the pitch in good shape and the owners and
investors risking their wealth in the unpredictable world of
English football. How to Run a Football Club delves into their
stories to find out what motivates the people who keep the game
alive. It explores how the sport is evolving, with the growth of
women's football, walking football and esports. What does it take
to run a good football club? How is money, or a lack of it,
changing the game? Read this book to find out.
"Punk Football" tells the story of how supporters have made the
incredible journey from the terraces to the boardroom. Initially
intrigued by the rise of AFC Wimbledon, the supporter-owned club
set up after Wimbledon FC's relocation to Milton Keynes, Jim
Keoghan was drawn into a world in which ordinary fans have started
new clubs, taken a stake in those they once followed, and sometimes
saved clubs from disappearing altogether. The fan-ownership
movement has touched every echelon of the game, challenging the
private model that has dominated soccer for over a century. There
have been highs and lows, successes and failures, but through it
all the dogged determination of fans to be more than paying
customers has shone through. Regarded as a revolutionary force in
modern sport, the story of "Punk Football" is one that will appeal
to every fan who has ever thought, "I could run this club better
myself."
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