Wolverhampton Warriors

Author : Steve Tongue
Publisher : eBook Partnership
ISBN 13 : 180150024X
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book West Midlands Turf Wars written by Steve Tongue and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2021-10-18 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the third volume of the acclaimed Turf Wars series, journalist and broadcaster Steve Tongue looks at the history of football in the West Midlands, where the world's first Football League was dreamed up and administered more than 130 years ago. Fierce rivalries had already emerged by then, and have remained as strong as anywhere. Aston Villa and Birmingham City (as Small Heath Alliance) were founded within a year of each other, only a few miles apart, as were equally bitter neighbours West Bromwich Albion and Wolves. And just as in London and Lancashire, turf wars were fought off the pitch too. In Burton and Walsall, the biggest local clubs once amalgamated to carry the name of their town forward. But what an outcry there was in the Potteries when Stoke City and Port Vale almost did the same. This is the story of them all, large and small, and non-league too with a colourful cast of characters - Stanley Matthews and Billy Wright, Major Frank Buckley and Ron Atkinson, William McGregor, Jimmy Hill and 'Deadly' Doug Ellis among them.

Author : Michael Layton
Publisher : Milo Books Ltd
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hunting The Hooligans written by Michael Layton and published by Milo Books Ltd. This book was released on 2015-08-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the notorious 1980s, football violence was rife. The yobs were rampant, crowds were falling and the Government was near despair. One of the worst gangs was identified as a multi-racial crew of thugs and thieves who followed Birmingham City FC. They looted shops, ransacked pubs and butchered rivals. They called themselves the Zulu Warriors. In 1987, after a bloody assault on one of their own, West Midlands Police set up a secret unit to infiltrate the Zulus and bring them down. Michael Layton, an ambitious and determined detective, assembled a small team in a secret location and set out to gather evidence on scores of targets. Operation Red Card was born. It was fraught with danger. A key informant played a deadly game to pass on vital intelligence about the gang. Undercover officers faced the constant threat of exposure and reprisal, on one occasion being locked in a pub and interrogated by a hostile crowd. Others faced arrest by unwitting colleagues when caught up in brawls while posing as would-be hooligans. The climax came with co-ordinated dawn raids to round up the ringleaders and their footsoldiers. But similar mass trials had collapsed in court amid claims of improper evidence-gathering. Would the case stand up? Hunting The Hooligans is the first ever inside account of an anti-hooligan operation by the man who ran it, and of the brave cops who pushed it to the limit. REVIEWS "Forget your I.D.s and your Green Streets - this is real football hooliganism: how the West Midlands Police brought the notorious Birmingham Zulu Warriors to book. Detective Michael Layton's first-hand tale is an often-harrowing insight into 1980s' organised crime."

Author : Robby Houben
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1802206973
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Research Handbook on the Law of Professional Football Clubs written by Robby Houben and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2023-09-06 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This original Research Handbook examines the key legal aspects of a professional football club’s actions. Reflecting also on the role of key governing bodies such as UEFA, the Handbook informs and contributes to the ongoing debate surrounding the governance and behaviours of professional football clubs.

Author : Patrick Quirke
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445615576
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Origins of Wolverhampton Wanderers written by Patrick Quirke and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2013-07-15 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time in detail, the story of the formation of the Wolverhampton Wanderers FC.

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Publisher : PediaPress
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book City of Sheffield written by and published by PediaPress. This book was released on with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Duncan Adams
Publisher : Aesculus Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9781904328223
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essential Football Fan written by Duncan Adams and published by Aesculus Press Ltd. This book was released on 2004-07 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Essential Football Fan is the most comprehensive guide to football grounds currently available and is essential reading for fans traveling to away games. on foot is accompanied by a map. Parking facilities are detailed and recommendations are given for where to eat and drink before the match. Finally, the meat of the guide gives ground information (with a stadium layout diagram), facilities for the disabled, price for tickets and visiting and other detailed information. photos, maps and diagrams. No other guide offers this depth of information. The Essential Football Fan is a stand-alone annual. Last year's version sold out in three months.

Author : Tony Matthews Staff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780747270379
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Essential History of Wolverhampton Wanderers Fc written by Tony Matthews Staff and published by . This book was released on 2000-08-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jon Henderson
Publisher : Biteback Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1785903853
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When Footballers Were Skint written by Jon Henderson and published by Biteback Publishing. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shortlisted for The Telegraph Sports Book Awards 2019 Long before perma-tanned football agents and TV mega-rights ushered in the age of the multimillionaire player, footballers' wages were capped – even the game's biggest names earned barely more than a plumber or electrician. Footballing legends such as Tom Finney and Stanley Matthews shared a bond of borderline penury with the huge crowds they entertained on Saturday afternoons, on pitches that were a world away from the pristine lawns of the game's modern era. Instead of the gleaming sports cars driven by today's top players, the stars of yesteryear travelled to matches on public transport and returned to homes every bit as modest as those of their supporters. Players and fans would even sometimes be next-door neighbours in a street of working-class terraced houses. Based on the first-hand accounts of players from a fast disappearing generation, When Footballers Were Skint delves into the game's rich heritage and relates the fascinating story of a truly great sporting era.

Author : John Hunt
Publisher : History West Midlands
ISBN 13 : 1905036310
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Warriors, Warlords and Saints written by John Hunt and published by History West Midlands. This book was released on 2016-08-16 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anglo-Saxon Mercia was a great power in its day, although many aspects of it have been shrouded in myth and mystery. However, recent discoveries, such as the Staffordshire Hoard and the Lichfield Angel, have shone a fascinating light into the world of Mercia and the Mercians. In Warriors, Warlords and Saints: The Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Mercia, author John Hunt uses this evidence to paint a vivid picture of this political and cultural powerhouse which, at the height of its influence, ruled over much of England, and reached out across Europe into the Middle East. The Mercians themselves were complex. They were a force capable of both great violence and great art, fostering the embryonic English Church and yet fighting bloody wars with the rival kingdoms of Wessex, Northumbria and East Anglia. The story of the Mercians is integral to the story of Anglo-Saxon England, from the end of Roman rule to the Norman invasion. It was a land peopled by ruthless kings, great ladies, brave warriors and famous saints who lived at a vital and compelling time in English history with Mercia at its heart.

Author : Wendy C. Nielsen
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1611494303
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women Warriors in Romantic Drama written by Wendy C. Nielsen and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women Warriors in Romantic Drama advances scholarship on late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century theater by bringing together, for the first time, female and male dramatists as well as British, German, Irish, and French writers, thinkers, actors, and philosophers. This transnational perspective allows Women Warriors in Romantic Drama to make the provocative claim that in some instances, the violence of the French Revolution--and especially women's participation in it--advances proto-feminist concerns.