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So, you're a Norwich City fan back for more? You've worked your way through Never Mind the Canaries and are more than ready to tackle our second quiz book on all things yellow and green. Well, it's time to be tested once again. How familiar are you with the club's FA Cup run in 1967? Or the former manager of St Mirren, who went on to be the first Canary boss to win a major trophy? How about the name of the player who was in the match day squads for Daniel Farke's first and last match as Norwich coach? Or which Canary was first to see red in the Premier League? And that's just a few of the easier questions. You've talked the Norwich City talk, now it's time to show that, as far as Canary facts and trivia are concerned, you sit at the very top of the perch. This book is the perfect companion for those long journeys to away games or nights down at the local. From famous players, managers and matches, to transfers, incidents and trivia, it's all here, designed to tease and test your knowledge of our great club. Get your Canary thinking caps on – it's quiz time!
After his first ship burns at sea under mysterious circumstances, a tough young sailor, Billy Cain (prodigal son of Pony Springs Montana) is treated for his wounds and then reassigned to a big supply ship- The USS Newark AOE-2; here he finds himself in the unlikely situation of serving again with a loyal, but disturbed former shipmate and friend, Wade Jordan. Intense complexities of personality and situation between them, fueled by one sailor's criminal greed and desire to dominate in the drug world, and another's, whose attempt to right a situation that's gotten clean out of hand will probably cost him dearly. Yet he fights back against his enemy for no more reason than an amazing woman's l...
The official, definitive history of Bristol Rovers FC, from its origins in 1883 to the present day.
Gainsborough’s Fred Spiksley was one of the first working class youngsters in 1887 to live ‘the dream’ of becoming a professional footballer, before later finding a role as a globe-trotting coach. He thus dodged the inevitability of industrial, poorly paid, dangerous labour. Lightning fast, Spiksley created and scored hundreds of goals including, to the great joy of the future Queen Mary who chased him down the touchline, three against Scotland in 1893. The outside left scored both Sheffield Wednesday’s goals in the 2-1 defeat of Wolves in the 1896 FA Cup Final at the Crystal palace. Forced by injury to stop playing at aged 36, Spiksley adventured out into the world. He acted with Ch...
As modern football grapples with the implications of a global crisis, this book looks at first in the game’s history: The First World War. The game’s structure and fabric faced existential challenges as fundamental questions were asked about its place and value in English society. This study explores how conflict reshaped the People’s Game on the English Home Front. The wartime seasons saw football's entire commercial model challenged and questioned. In 1915, the FA banned the payment of players, reopening a decades-old dispute between the game's early amateur values and its modern links to the world of capital and lucrative entertainment. Wartime football forced supporters to consider whether the game should continue, and if so, in what form? Using an array of previously unused sources and images, this book explores how players, administrators and fans grappled with these questions as daily life was continually reshaped by the demands of total war. From grassroots to elite football, players to spectators, gambling to charity work, this study examines the social, economic and cultural impact of what became Football's Great War.
The 1953 FA Cup Final between Blackpool and Bolton Wanderers had everything: seven goals, a dramatic comeback and, in Stanley Matthews, a fairytale hero. Sixty years on, this legendary game has come to represent a golden age-the year when Queen Elizabeth II was crowned and a British expedition conquered Everest. The Great English Final looks at the cultural importance of the match as Britain broke free from post-war austerity, with pre-Coronation television sales taking the Cup Final into more homes than ever before. In 1953, Britain clung to the old-fashioned values epitomized by Matthews while bracing itself for a new consumer-driven age under its young monarch. Football was on the threshold of similar change. Five months later, the England team would be torn apart by Hungary and the national game would never be the same again. Yet the 1953 FA Cup Final would live forever.
Michael Falcon (1888-1976) was educated at Harrow and Cambridge and proved himself to be a good enough fast bowler to be selected fourteen times for the Gentlemen. He declined to qualify by residence to play for Middlesex, preferring instead to play for his beloved Norfolk in the Minor Counties Championship. In this competition his exploits as a hard-hitting, fast-bowling all-rounder made him a dominant figure in Norfolk elevens. Appointed captain in 1912, he was still in office in 1946; he was the only man to skipper his county before the First World War and after the Second. An astute and popular leader, he was worth his place in the team to the end, finishing top of the batting averages i...
Revisiting a colourful decade for both the City of Norwich and it’s much beloved football team.
Revisiting a colourful decade for both the City of Norwich and its much loved football team.
A complete record of every player to have made a first team appearance for Tottenham Hotspur Football Club.