We Ll Support You Evermore

Author : Ian Archer,Trevor Royle
Publisher : Random House
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012-01-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780574219

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We'll Support You Evermore by Ian Archer,Trevor Royle Pdf

'It has to start somewhere for everyone, this daft, wild, extraordinary notion that happiness is a Scottish lap of honour and that the greatest, most hysterical happiness would be a Scottish lap of honour on a World Cup final day, England having just retired to the dressing-rooms, not just beaten, but destroyed, humiliated, thrashed, gubbed . . . ' - Ian Archer First published in 1976, We'll Support You Evermore is a collection of reminiscences about the nation's favourite game. Hilarious tales of after-match celebrations and moving accounts of growing up playing football on the mean streets of Glasgow and Edinburgh rub shoulders with memories of superb victories, glorious defeats and drunken jaunts abroad. Together, these produce an entertaining portrait of Scottish supporters. Novelist Alan Sharp and Gordon Williams contribute essays, as do journalists Ian Archer, John Rafferty and Hugh Taylor among others. Each writes about his own personal recollections of the game: the Wembley Wizards, the Famous Five, Third Lanark, the Old Firm, Queen's Park, Hearts, Hibs, and many more. There's something here for every fitba'-daft reader.

Author : Nick Leather
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 97 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-04
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781408121474

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Billy Wonderful by Nick Leather Pdf

A programme text edition published to coincide with the world premiere at the Everyman Theatre, Liverpool, on 12 March 2009. Billy is in the squad and it's wonderful. He's down the wing and he's flying. He doesn't believe in much, but he believes in this ... in football. As the Blues and the Reds come out to play, it's D-Day for Billy ... Derby Day. But in the scramble for success, can Billy keep his head or will he fall foul of fame and fortune? Nick Leather, one of the North West's most prominent young playwrights, brings us a fast-paced coming of age story pulsing with all the excitement and physicality of Match Day.

Author : Gerry Finn,Richard Giulianotti
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781136330353

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Football Culture by Gerry Finn,Richard Giulianotti Pdf

These essays provide a critical investigation of football cultures, examining local and national impacts of the game's new millennial order over five continents.

Author : David Bull
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 0715624474

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We'll Support You Evermore by David Bull Pdf

Author : Kevin Avery
Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781606994757

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Everything is an Afterthought by Kevin Avery Pdf

What happened to Paul Nelson? In the '60s, he pioneered rock & roll criticism with a first-person style of writing that would later be popularized by the likes of Tom Wolfe and Norman Mailer as “New Journalism.” As co-founding editor of The Little Sandy Review and managing editor of Sing Out!, he’d already established himself, to use his friend Bob Dylan’s words, as “a folk-music scholar”; but when Dylan went electric in 1965, Nelson went with him. During a five-year detour at Mercury Records in the early 1970s, Nelson signed the New York Dolls to their first recording contract, then settled back down to writing criticism at Rolling Stone as the last in a great tradition of record-review editors that included Jon Landau, Dave Marsh, and Greil Marcus. Famously championing the early careers of artists like Bruce Springsteen, Jackson Browne, Rod Stewart, Neil Young, and Warren Zevon, Nelson not only wrote about them but often befriended them. Never one to be pigeonholed, he was also one of punk rock’s first stateside mainstream proponents, embracing the Sex Pistols and the Ramones. But in 1982, he walked away from it all — Rolling Stone, his friends, and rock & roll. By the time he died in his New York City apartment in 2006 at the age of seventy — a week passing before anybody discovered his body — almost everything he’d written had been relegated to back issues of old music magazines. How could a man whose writing had been so highly regarded have fallen so quickly from our collective memory? With Paul Nelson’s posthumous blessing, Kevin Avery spent four years researching and writing Everything Is an Afterthought: The Life and Writing of Paul Nelson. This unique anthology-biography compiles Nelson’s best works (some of it previously unpublished) while also providing a vivid account of his private and public lives. Avery interviewed almost 100 of Paul Nelson’s friends, family, and colleagues, including several of the artists about whom he’d written.

Author : Anthony Cronshaw
Publisher : Kings Road Publishing
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-26
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781857827019

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Wednesday Rucks and Rock 'n' Roll by Anthony Cronshaw Pdf

Wednesday, Rucks and Rock 'n'Roll tells the story of the East Bank from 1975 to 2002 - the planning, the pubs, the matches, the rucks and the coppers. Never mindless violence - but a day at the football simply wouldn't be complete without a good all-out fight with the rivals.It's the era of the silver jubilee, skinheads and bands like sham 69, The Jam, The Clash and The Sex Pistols. Tommy and his mates like nothing better than having a beer, going to a gig and supporting their beloved football team, Sheffield Wednesday. They go to every game, home and away, to enjoy the match - and, of course, to have a good fight.

Author : Simon Kuper,Stefan Szymanski
Publisher : Bold Type Books
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-18
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781645030188

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Soccernomics (2022 World Cup Edition) by Simon Kuper,Stefan Szymanski Pdf

Written with an economist's brain and a soccer writer's skill, Soccernomics applies high-powered analytical tools to everyday soccer topics Soccernomics is a revolutionary new way of looking at soccer that has helped to change the way the sport is played. This World Cup edition features ample new material, including a chapter on women’s soccer that makes a case for reparations, an analysis of the pandemic’s impact on soccer finances, and insights into the failed plan to create a European Super League. Soccernomics remains essential reading for anyone in search of a more strategic, systematic perspective on the game, answering the questions that most consume soccer fans.

Author : James Meikle
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2008-03
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780595496129

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Fitba Daft by James Meikle Pdf

Fitba (football, soccer) is truly the world's game. It evokes the deepest emotions in the millions who play and watch it in almost every corner and culture around our globe. So where does this passion come from? Some of it is certainly inherent in genes, especially in respect of playing ability. However millions who have never played at any serious level are amongst the most fanatical of all. Like most addictions it is something formed by steady consumption over a prolonged period. Alcohol, nicotine and cocaine have much more obvious routes to our bloodstream but I firmly believe that soccer can get there too. It can ultimately provide such an overwhelming sensation of joy that the brain craves repetition of that euphoria, even if it may have to wait thirty years or more between very brief highs. Here's a true life story which provides a detailed insight into the environment and twists of fate which contrive to addict one Scottish boy and sustain that addiction even when he moves to America. They have soccer in America? Oh yeah, more than you can imagine.

Author : Antony Rickson
Publisher : eBook Partnership
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-06
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781801500234

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Football's Better with Fans by Antony Rickson Pdf

Football stadiums are supposed to be packed with cheering fans. It was that way for more than 100 years until the coronavirus pandemic changed all our lives. Football managed to struggle on at some levels but without crowds - just cardboard cut-outs and fake noise instead. There was even a half measure for a while with a couple of thousand spectators allowed in. A banner at Old Trafford read, 'Football is nothing without fans', but what we discovered is that it isn't nothing, it's just better with fans there. Filled with fascinating stories, anecdotes, opinions and social media comments, Football's Better with Fans explores what it means to be a supporter. It's a light-hearted and highly dippable look at the lives of loyal fans, the fun and games they've enjoyed, their songs, banter, commitment, tattoos and traditions. The book doesn't shy away from tragedies, hooliganism or racism, but mainly it's a joyful celebration of football fandom and how we all survived when we couldn't go to games.

Author : Matthew Taylor
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317870074

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The Association Game by Matthew Taylor Pdf

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.

Author : John Foster
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0192762214

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Football Fever by John Foster Pdf

Here's a collection of poems about goals, fans, yobs, cheers, fouls, boots, scarves, crowds, strips. You'll also see falling stars, blind referees, magic sponges, dream teams, fizzy drinks, wet Saturdays, hairless half-backs, and a game of two halves. This is a thought-provoking as well as an entertaining book, and includes a number of reflective poems, dealing with some of the more serious issues in football. Most of the poems have been specially written for this collection.

Author : Nick Hornby
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2005-05-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780141926544

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Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby Pdf

*WINNER OF THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR* Fever Pitch is Nick Hornby's million-copy-selling, award-winnning football classic 'A spanking 7-0 away win of a football book. . . inventive, honest, funny, heroic, charming' Independent For many people watching football is mere entertainment, to some it's more like a ritual; but to others, its highs and lows provide a narrative to life itself. But, for Nick Hornby, his devotion to the game has provided one of few constants in a life where the meaningful things - like growing up, leaving home and forming relationships, both parental and romantic - have rarely been as simple or as uncomplicated as his love for Arsenal. Brimming with wit and honesty, Fever Pitch, catches perfectly what it really means to be a football fan - and in doing so, what it means to be a man. 'Hornby has put his finger on truths that have been unspoken for generations' Irish Times 'Funny, wise and true' Roddy Doyle

Author : John Anderson
Publisher : eBook Partnership
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781909178519

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Great Face for Radio by John Anderson Pdf

John Anderson tells the tale of how a humble insurance clerk from Guildford came to rove the world covering some of the biggest sports events of the past 25 years. Now updated with six new chapters including his stories and insights from the heart of the England camp during World Cup 2010 and Euro 2012, A Great Face for Radio is a hilarious memoir of his experiences as a radio sports correspondent and commentator. While reporting from Olympic Games, World Cups, and world title fights, John has been in the thick of football riots, was almost arrested during the 1996 Atlanta bombing, had to flee bottle-wielding fans at a rap gig, and survived gunfire during a high-speed car chase to a Johannesburg brothel. He has rubbed shoulders with stars such as Pele, Mike Tyson, Dame Kelly Holmes, and Carl Lewis, and once interviewed David Beckham in a French gents toilet.

Author : Ian Black,Leslie Black
Publisher : Black & White Publishing
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2003-11-17
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781845028558

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The (Completely Unofficial) Tartan Army Songbook by Ian Black,Leslie Black Pdf

The (Completely Unofficial) Tartan Army Songbook is the book that no self-respecting Scotland fan should be without.

Author : Len Masterman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2005-06-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134958412

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Television Mythologies by Len Masterman Pdf

A collection of essays on television which focuses on the previewers, the TV magazines, quiz shows, commercial breaks, Top of the Pops, One Man and His Dog, personalities, politicians and continuity announcers.