York City: Fighting Back by Dave Flett Published by Amberley Publishing 2013, £14.99 ISBN: 978-1445614083 Life as a York City fan has largely been a predictable state of affairs down the years. Turn up, watch them be moderate to crap for 90 minutes, go home – simple. The glories are fleeting and to be clung to for far longer than is probably healthy and for the most part of the club’s existence, the lowest low was applying for re-election, something which was never realistically going to be refused. That changed in 1987 when an automatic relegation place was added and the…
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Book Review: Hatters, Railwaymen and Knitters
Hatters, Railwaymen and Knitters by Daniel Gray Published by Bloomsbury 2013, £12.99 … At times reading Daniel Gray’s Hatters, Railwaymen and Knitters is, despite the ugliness of the title, a joyous experience; an author who clearly enjoys using language talking with warmth and wit about football, people and social history. It’s the literary equivalent of an exhibition of Stuart Roy Clarke photos, and in celebrating community spirit and social cohesion, shares the soft-centred patriotism of a Michael Wood documentary. Gray has decided, at the point of turning 30, to revisit those clubs who were top and bottom of their respective…
Whirlpool’s End: Stockport County in the Conference North
Blackburn. Wolves. Manchester City. Colwyn Bay. Frickley Athletic. Brackley Town. It doesn’t take long for things to change in football – a few right decisions and you can be transformed from nowhere to become a star pupil, held up as an example to follow. Swansea are the most obvious example, and in previous years Cardiff and Blackpool have enjoyed similar meteoric rises from bottom to top. Longer term, many of these clubs have ended up back where they started. Carlisle and Swansea famously went from Fourth to First Division in the 1970s and came right back down again, whilst Plymouth,…
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