Author: Cornel Sandvoss
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004-03-01
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 1134378319
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Professional football is one of the most popular television 'genres' worldwide, attracting the support of millions of fans, and the sponsorship of powerful companies. In A Game of Two Halves, Sandvoss considers football's relationship with television, its links with transnational capitalism, and the importance of football fandom in forming social and cultural identities around the globe. He presents the phenomenon of football as a reflection postmodern culture and globalization.Through a series of case studies, based in ethnographic audience research, Sandvoss explores the motivations and pleasures of football fans, the intense bond formed between supporters and their clubs, the implications of football consumption on political discourse and citizenship, football as a factor of cultural globalisation, and the pivotal role of football and television in a postmodern cultural order.
Author: Stephen Kelly
Publisher: Portico
Published: 2018-02-15
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 1911042998
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A holiday photograph of a 10 year old lad leaning over the garden fence with the Huddersfield Town manager Bill Shankly is the starting point for an enduring bond. Shankly, the Kop and the Cavern. Was there ever a more thrilling place for any young person than Liverpool in the sixties? Yet is the pull of the city with all its attractions overwhelming enough to defy the boy's own burgeoning ambitions that seem destined to whisk him away from the team that he loves so much? This is not just a tale about football, it's about life in Liverpool: Anfield, the Beatles, Cup finals, Catholicism, girls, the shipyards and the politics. It's the story of one young lad's journey into adulthood, inspired by a man who was to become an icon. You never know how good it is until it's gone. That was Liverpool in the sixties.
Author: Steve Wilson
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2014-04-09
Total Pages: 117
ISBN-13: 129182779X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume details forty 'big' football matches that I have been privileged to attend during a forty-year period of watching Blackpool, Liverpool, Glasgow Rangers, Tranmere Rovers and Stafford Rangers, covering all aspects of the game from non-league success to European Cup glory.
Author: David Kuzio
Publisher: eBook Partnership
Published: 2013-04-23
Total Pages: 103
ISBN-13: 190917887X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Fourteen Wigan legends come together to tell the stories behind their favourite ever games for the club &– enabling Warriors fans of all ages to relive these magic moments through the eyes and emotions of the men who were there, playing their hearts out in the famous cherry-and-white hooped shirt. Andy Gregory revels in keeping a clean sheet against deadly rivals St Helens at Wembley, while Terry O'Connor remembers how getting knocked out became the greatest moment of his career! Heroes such as Shaun Edwards, Shaun Wane, Billy McGinty and Dean Bell have chosen unforgettable matches including the 1987 World Club Championship triumph over Manly, winning the 1992 Challenge Cup amid an incredible eight successive victories, and titanic struggles against Leeds in the late &‘90s. Once again, the lads turn in characteristic star performances, winding back the clock to relive treasured memories of the Match of Their Lives for the Warriors.
Author: Andrew Smart
Publisher: Kings Road Publishing
Published: 2014-05-08
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 1784180696
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →THE 1970S - THE LAST DECADE WHEN EVERY FAN OF EVERY CLUB COULD WISH FOR THE STARS.For supporters of provincial lightweights like Derby County, Nottingham Forest and Leeds United, their wishes came true in the seventies when they landed the Division One title. It was the decade of the underdog - when the FA Cup was still football's Holy Grail and teams like Sunderland, Ipswich and Southampton came in from the sticks to produce their own brand of Wembley magic. It is not like that today.It was the decade when every team had its characters: Stan Bowles, Charlie George, Duncan McKenzie, Frank Worthington, Tony Currie, Rodney Marsh. These personalities are gone now, replaced by an influx of anonymous foreign journeymen.This book harks back to a lost era when the game still belonged to the fans; they could identify with the players, recognise their heroes, and believe they all had a shot at glory.It remembers dramatic matches packed with action and controversy; recalls mercurial managers like Shankly, Clough, Revie and the Doc - and asks the question: who was the finest player from football's last great decade?
Author: Jean Williams
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-10-02
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 1317413954
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This is the first edited collection of its kind to analyse the distinct but overlapping topics of dress, costume, sport and leisure history. For researchers of bodily adornment and movement, sport and costume history are both primarily concerned with industrial practice and embodied experience. The ways in which bodies are adorned, embellished and clothed (or revealed) highlights the hybrid nature of dress history, encompassing as it does the everyday clothing solutions of the mass of people and the unusual or more ceremonial aspects of costume, as well as elite high fashion. Although this is as yet an under-researched area, there are an increasing number of fashion and clothing undergraduate and postgraduate courses that specialise in sport and leisurewear. This publication is intended to give an introductory overview of the historical and contemporary issues as it does for the growing number of sport marketing and sports studies courses concerned with dress, costume history and branding. This book was published as a special issue of Sport in History.
Author: Nige Tassell
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2023-03-30
Total Pages: 291
ISBN-13: 1398518557
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →100 years of Wembley Stadium told through 100 matches. The 1923 FA Cup final – also known as the White Horse final – was the first football match played at the British Empire Exhibition Stadium. Although best remembered for its vast, well-beyond-capacity crowd, which had to be marshalled by a policeman atop a white horse, that afternoon marked the opening chapter of the long and eventful history of the stadium soon to be known simply as Wembley. Over the 100 years since that overcrowded day, Wembley has established itself as the home of the beautiful game and, almost certainly, the world’s most famous football stadium. It occupies a special place in the hearts of players and punters alike. Watching your team at Wembley is the highlight of a fan’s lifetime of support; playing there the fulfilment of a childhood dream. Its sacred pitch has been the crucible of many classic matches across the decades: World Cups have been won here, as have FA Cups, European Cups, play-off finals and more. And that hallowed turf has also seen greyhounds, stunt motorcycles, American football, plus the feet of 72,000 music fans at Live Aid in 1985. Nige Tassell chooses 100 matches - from the well known to the esoteric - that have shaped Wembley's legacy and tells a lively and original alternative history of the past 100 years of football, and of Britain. We hear a ball boy’s perspective on the FA Cup Final when Bert Trautmann broke his neck, about the other commentator of the 1966 World Cup final, and why a cup-winning team of eleven unemployed men didn't receive a trophy from a future king. Field of Dreams is the story of how football found its home.
Author: Bobby Seagull
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2018-10-25
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 0753552825
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →If you found maths lessons at school irrelevant and boring, that’s because you didn’t have a teacher like Bobby Seagull. ***As seen on Monkman & Seagull's Genius Guide to Britain*** Long before his rise to cult fandom on University Challenge, Bobby Seagull was obsessed with numbers. They were the keys that unlocked the randomness of football results, the beauty of art and the best way to get things done. In his absorbing book, Bobby tells the story of his life through numbers and shows the incredible ways maths can make sense of the world around us. From magic shows to rap lyrics, from hobbies to outer space, from fitness to food – Bobby’s infectious enthusiasm for numbers will change how you think about almost everything. Told through fascinating stories and insights from Bobby’s life, and with head-scratching puzzles in every chapter, you’ll never look at numbers the same way again.