Football Nation [electronic resource] : Sixty Years of the Beautiful Game
Ward, Andrew2009
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Football is at the heart of British national identity, intrinsically linked to our social history. Through more than forty fascinating stories Football Nation reveals the hidden and not-so-hidden history of the game since 1945. From the mass audiences of austerity Britain and the introduction of floodlights at Accrington Stanley in the 1950s, through the escalating hooliganism of the 1970s and the arrival of the first all-seater stadium at Coventry in the 1980s, to the Hillsborough disaster and the coming of the Premiership, Andrew Ward and John Williams reveal the truth about the national game as it was once and is today in the age of satellite TV, celebrity lifestyle and extreme wealth. Looking back at the days when footballers were amateurs who travelled to the match with the fans, right through to the present day where top-flight players command a higher weekly wage than the average spectator can earn in a year, Football Nation is informed, wryly amusing, often surprising and always vastly entertaining. It offers an entirely fresh perspective on the history of the beautiful game in Britain.
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Author:
Ward, Andrew, AuthorWilliams, John, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2009
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
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Mode of access: Internet
Biography/History:
John Williams is a contributing editor at GQ, and also a regular reviewer on various subjects; crime for The Mail on Sunday, fiction for The Independent and a travel writer forThe Sunday Times. He was born in Cardiff and has lived in Paris and London where he worked in the music industry in various bands, before turning to writing as a career.
ISBN:
9781408803523
Language:
English
BRN:
2789918
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