The Origins of Wolverhampton Wanderers by Patrick A. Quirke Published by Amberley Publishing 2013, £14.99 Wolverhampton Wanderers are without question one of England’s most storied clubs and with 2013-4 turning out to be a highly satisfactory one on the pitch, we thought it would be high time to reflect on times past. Amberley Publishing have released Patrick A. Quirke’s book on the early days of the club and Ben Piggott, designer of the avatars on this site and @Apt_Pseudonym on twitter gives us his thoughts. … At this point in football’s fervently chronicled history, as new chapters are drafted on…
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Book Review: Tor!
Tor! by Uli Hesse Published by WSC Books 2013, £9.49 As a voracious devourer of football history while growing up, I had always been cynical about West Germany’s win over Hungary in the 1954 World Cup Final, the so-called ‘Miracle of Bern’. After all, an enormous European country vanquishing a much smaller one was hardly on a level with that same large nation’s defeat to Algeria in the 1982 tournament and those Hungarians are to this day rated as one of the three most undeserving teams to miss out on overall glory. But in the new update of this simply magnificent…
Book Review: Falling for Football
Falling for Football edited by Adam Bushby and Rob MacDonald Published by Ockley Books 2014, £11.99 Falling for Football is a highly significant book and not just because of the way it expertly conjures up why we fall for the sport, its tribulations and tensions, its vitality and emotion, in the first place. It is also noteworthy for the service editors Adam Bushby and Rob MacDonald have performed in gathering together 44 specially commissioned contributions, the obvious work that has gone in to harrying people to meet deadlines, the support of the people at Ockley Books and the fact that this is…
Book Review: Sport in Capitalist Society: A Short History
Sport in Capitalist Society: A Short History by Tony Collins Published by Routledge 2013, £19.99 God bless Crystal Palace’s self-styled ultras, the Holmesdale Fanatics. The irony of proudly displaying a banner reading “AGAINST MODERN FOOTBALL” during a Premier League match this season, one which was beamed into bars and living rooms around the world on television, was clearly lost on them. Perhaps that’s only to be expected, given that they seem to consist mostly of pimply teenagers bouncing around under a flag while one of their chums whacks a drum in semi-rhythmic fashion. They’re not the only supporters to have…
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