Twenty Football Towns

Author : Steve Leach
Publisher : Saraband
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-06
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781912235926

Get Book

Twenty Football Towns by Steve Leach Pdf

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.

Author : Jonathan Wilson,Nick Ames,Anthony Clavane,Peter Frankopan,David Stubbs
Publisher : Blizzard Media Ltd
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

Get Book

The Blizzard - The Football Quarterly: Issue Twenty Four by Jonathan Wilson,Nick Ames,Anthony Clavane,Peter Frankopan,David Stubbs Pdf

First published in March 2017, Issue Twenty Four contains 19 articles in 7 sections, including: Anthony Clavane on the decline of heavy industry and the sad logic of Brexit in Yorkshire; Peter Frankopan looking at how in politics, economics and football the role of Asia is becoming more significant; and David Stubbs on the glorious summer of 1996 when all things seemed possible.

Author : Steve Leach,Colin Copus
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783031328190

Get Book

The Strange Demise of the Local in Local Government by Steve Leach,Colin Copus Pdf

This book challenges the notion that bigger local government is always better. Whilst the central government in Britain has often supported increases in local government size, the book argues that this has been detrimental, and has caused the erosion of distinctive community identities that were previously represented by local authorities empowered to make significant local choices about services and future strategy. Drawing from national and international evidence, it offers an alternative narrative about the size, role, function and purpose of local government to that currently dominating policy discussion. It aims to provide readers who oppose size increases in local government with the evidence and arguments to influence change in their areas. The book will appeal to policymakers working in central and local government, as well as academics interested in public policy, public administration and local government.

Author : Ivor H. Seeley
Publisher : Springer
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1973-06-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781349018154

Get Book

Outdoor Recreation and the Urban Environment by Ivor H. Seeley Pdf

Author : Daniel A. Nathan
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780252094859

Get Book

Rooting for the Home Team by Daniel A. Nathan Pdf

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.

Author : Jonathan Wilson,George Osborn,Rob Smyth,Rupert Fryer,James Young
Publisher : Blizzard Media Ltd
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

Get Book

The Blizzard - The Football Quarterly: Issue Twenty Three by Jonathan Wilson,George Osborn,Rob Smyth,Rupert Fryer,James Young Pdf

First published in December 2016, Issue Twenty Three contains 18 articles in 6 sections, including: Paul Simpson on the end of Ron Knee and Private Eye's relationship with football; Joe Devine talks to David Icke about football's role as an opiate to suppress the masses; and Rupert Fryer with a selection of nutmegs for the ages.

Author : Thad Sitton,James H. Conrad
Publisher : Univ of TX + ORM
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780292799882

Get Book

Nameless Towns by Thad Sitton,James H. Conrad Pdf

A comprehensive history of the sawmill towns of East Texas in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Sawmill communities were once the thriving centers of East Texas life. Many sprang up almost overnight in a pine forest clearing, and many disappeared just as quickly after the company “cut out” its last trees. But during their heyday, these company towns made Texas the nation’s third-largest lumber producer and created a colorful way of life that lingers in the memories of the remaining former residents and their children and grandchildren. Drawing on oral history, company records, and other archival sources, Sitton and Conrad recreate the lifeways of the sawmill communities. They describe the companies that ran the mills and the different kinds of jobs involved in logging and milling. They depict the usually rough-hewn towns, with their central mill, unpainted houses, company store, and schools, churches, and community centers. And they characterize the lives of the people, from the hard, awesomely dangerous mill work to the dances, picnics, and other recreations that offered welcome diversions. Winner, T. H. Fehrenbach Award, Texas Historical Commission “After completing the book, I truly understood life in the sawmill communities, intellectually and emotionally. It was very satisfying. Conrad and Sitton write in such a manner to make one feel the hard life, smell the sawdust, and share the danger of the mills. The book is compelling and stimulating.” —Robert L. Schaadt, Director-Archivist, Sam Houston Regional Library and Research Center

Author : Steven J. Overman
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-11
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781496821324

Get Book

Sports Crazy by Steven J. Overman Pdf

Sports Crazy: How Sports Are Sabotaging American Schools exposes the excesses of middle and high school sports and the detrimental effects our sports obsession has on American education. Institutions are increasingly emulating college and professional sports models and losing sight of a host of educational and health goals. Steven J. Overman describes how this agenda is driven largely by partisan fans and parents of athletes who exert an inordinate influence on school priorities, and he explains how and why school administrators shockingly and consistently capitulate to these demands. The author underscores the incongruity of public schools involved in an entertainment business and the effects this diversion has on academic integrity, learning, life experience, and overall educational outcomes. Overman examines out-of-control school sports within the context of a school’s educational mission and curriculum, with telling reference to impacts on physical education. He explores as well the outsized place of interscholastic sports beyond the classroom and scrutinizes the distorted relationship between intramural or recreational sports and elitist, varsity athletics. Overman’s chapter on tackle football explains many reasons why this sport should be eliminated from the school extracurriculum and replaced by flag or touch football. Overman presents a brief history of interscholastic sports, and he compares and contrasts the American experience of school-sponsored sport to the European model of community-based clubs. Which approach better serves students? Overman recommends reforms in the context of a radical proposal to phase out interscholastic sports in favor of an intramural or club model. This approach would alleviate such problems as elitism and gender bias and reign in hypercompetitiveness while freeing schools to educate students rather than provide public entertainment.

Author : Anthony Cartwright
Publisher : Serpent's Tail
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781782832010

Get Book

Iron Towns by Anthony Cartwright Pdf

Twenty years ago, Liam Corwen and Dee Dee Ahmed were on the cusp of a better future, Liam as a promising footballer and Dee Dee as a singer in a girl band. Now they're both eking out an existence back in their home town. As the old steelworks rust and the local football club limps towards relegation and liquidation, Dee Dee recalls the tragic events that changed their lives. Liam thinks back to the great players of the past, and wonders: could redemption, greatness even, still wait for them, here among the abandoned cranes and docks and housing estates? Evoking the landscape and myth of old, forgotten England, Iron Towns is a story of our dreams of youth, football, and industrial progress - and what happens when those dreams recede into the past. New paperback edition featuring Cartwright's acclaimed essay on the EU referendum.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1516 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Medicine
ISBN : HARVARD:32044103079398

Get Book

The Lancet by Anonim Pdf

Author : Bruce Bertrand
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2023-01-26
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781728378312

Get Book

One Town, One Team by Bruce Bertrand Pdf

When third-year football coach Sherm Blaser walked into his first team meeting for the upcoming season he asked the team what their team goal should be for the upcoming season. The first hand that went up was that of senior defensive lineman Benten Hall, who suggested a winning season would be an appropriate team goal. A winning season might not seem like a lofty goal, but it is certainly a practical one. The previous year the Kavemen did go 5-4 but finished sixth in conference play and did not make the playoffs. Benten's sophmore and freshman years those varsity teams went a combined 7-12. In fact, since Benten and his fellow seniors on the team started the first grade eleven years ago the Kuna football teams have a combined record of forty-three wins and sixty-two losses. The football program has not won a conference championship since 1998 and has won just one playoff game this century! Blaser was not seen as the savior of this program when he was hired two years before. Before coming to Kuna his record was 15- 21 at two previous schools. In his two previous years on the Kuna campus, his record was only 8-10. So how could this team, led by this coach, make it all the way to the state championship game? Fortunately for me, my son Ryan, who was starting his fourth season as part of Sherm Blaser's coaching staff and was living with me as he was finishing his master's program in psychology, so I had a front-row seat to this amazing season.

Author : Theron J. Hopkins,Twenty Town Press
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2004-11-01
Category : Football
ISBN : 097652080X

Get Book

The Eighty-Yard Run by Theron J. Hopkins,Twenty Town Press Pdf

The Eighty-Yard Run is the story of a high school football season in America. Over the course of twenty weeks and twenty towns, this book travels from summer practice through the regular season and onto a whole row of state championships that culminate in the Texas 5A state title game in San Antonio's Alamodome. And it discovers a world wreathed with those Friday night lights that offers up a miraculous spectacle of renewed hope and high drama in such far-flung locales as Hillsborough, North Carolina and Valentine, Nebraska and Sutter, California. But it also finds that the almost blinding halogen glare is only part--and maybe not even the best part--of what makes this game so irresistible and so important to all those people who watch it, coach it, and play it, and who can't seem to get quite enough of the rectangular field, the oblong ball, and the young men who offer up their time, their energy, and at least a little bit of their hearts to make magic happen.

Author : Chris W. Post,Alyson L. Greiner,Geoffrey L. Buckley
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781000832952

Get Book

The Routledge Companion to the American Landscape by Chris W. Post,Alyson L. Greiner,Geoffrey L. Buckley Pdf

The Routledge Companion to the American Landscape provides a comprehensive overview of the American landscape in a way fit for the twenty-first century, not only in its topical and regional scope but also in its methodological and disciplinary diversity. Critically surveying the contemporary scholarship on the American landscape, this companion brings together scholars from the social sciences and humanities who focus their work on understanding the polyphonic evolution of the United States’ landscape. It simultaneously assesses the development of the US landscape as well as the scholarly thought that has driven innovation and continued research about that landscape. Four broad sections focus on key areas of scholarship: environmental landscapes, social, cultural, and popular identities in the landscape, political landscapes, and urban/economic landscapes. A special essay, "American Landscapes Under Siege" and accompanying short case studies call attention to the legacies and realities of race in the American landscape, bridging the discussion of social and political landscapes. This companion offers an invaluable and up-to-date guide for scholars and graduate students to current thinking across the range of disciplines which converge in the study of place, including Geography, Cultural Studies, and History as well as the interdisciplinary fields of American Studies, Environmental Studies, and Planning.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Mines and mineral resources
ISBN : OXFORD:501324733

Get Book

The Royal School of Mines Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : James E. Sherman,Barbara H. Sherman
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1975-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0806111062

Get Book

Ghost Towns and Mining Camps of New Mexico by James E. Sherman,Barbara H. Sherman Pdf

Given in memory of Ethel A. Tsutsui, Ph.D. and Minoru Tsutsui, Ph.D.