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Bring Me the Sports Jacket of Arthur Montford

2022-11-03 Sports & Recreation
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Release : 2022-11-03
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Book Synopsis Bring Me the Sports Jacket of Arthur Montford by : Aidan Smith

Download or read book Bring Me the Sports Jacket of Arthur Montford written by Aidan Smith. This book was released on 2022-11-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Scotland on Sunday Sports Book of the Year Take a hilarious romp through the best and worst of Scottish footballing history. The Scot who won England the World Cup. Macaroon bars and Bovril. When Dixie Deans met Bob Marley. When Davie Robb met Olivia Newton-John. When George McCluskey met the Stones. When Rick Wakeman filed match reports for Meadowbank Thistle. Triumphs and disasters, submarines and rowing boats, War and Peace (who's read it). The Cowdenbeath kettle. The Brechin hedge. Morton's great Danes. Icarus at East Fife. The dead pigeon sketch and the amazing technicolor booze-coat. The can girls. Those who flogged ice cream and licked Hitler. The world's oldest conjoined twins. Inside the half-time scoreboards. Our greatest goal, our greatest assist, our keepers. Scarlett Johansson! And of course Arthur Montford - commentator, curator, favourite uncle to the nation. In Bring Me the Sports Jacket of Arthur Montford, Aidan Smith mines Scottish football history for quirk, strangeness and charm. On a journey that takes him to Albania and also Albion Rovers, great players are celebrated and so are great characters. Rediscover old legends (not told this way before) and maybe learn about new ones. If there's a running theme it's that our game, its participants and those who watch in the rain are one and the same thing - indomitable.

Persevered

2016-11-10 Sports & Recreation
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Release : 2016-11-10
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Book Rating : 215/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Persevered by : Aidan Smith

Download or read book Persevered written by Aidan Smith. This book was released on 2016-11-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One hundred and fourteen years and no Scottish Cup for Hibernian. It could be considered the biggest curse in football. Cock-up after near-miss after not-a-hope. Over the years Hearts fans have even tried to get the term 'Hibsing it' – to chuck away a vital game from a favourable position – included in the dictionary. Every year would come the mention of 1902, the last time Hibs had won the cup. 1902, when Buffalo Bill still alive and the bra was newly invented. And then came 2016 and a run all the way to the final at Hampden. Hibs couldn't finally, at long, long last, win the infernal, blasted thing ... could they? Aidan Smith takes us on the turbulent journey that was Hibs' 2016 Scottish Cup Campaign, through a season of peaks and troughs which, despite everything, finally delivered that elusive Cup victory Hibs fans have craved for so long.

The Broken Journey

2016-10-12 History
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Release : 2016-10-12
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 42X/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Broken Journey by : Kenneth Roy

Download or read book The Broken Journey written by Kenneth Roy. This book was released on 2016-10-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second volume of Kenneth Roy's magisterial trilogy on the history of Scotland since the Second World War. The first volume, The Invisible Spirit: A Life of Post-War Scotland 1945-75, was met with immediate acclaim. This new volume brings the story much closer to the present day and traces enthrallingly the social, political and cultural threads which lead directly to the Scotland we live in today. Along the way the author describes the oil boom in Shetland, Scotland's doomed campaign at the World Cup in Argentina, the Orkney child sex abuse scandal, the Lockerbie bombing, the massacre of schoolchildren and a teacher at Dunblane, the cloning of Dolly the sheep, and much more. Kenneth Roy uses his record of events to mount a searing critique of the Scottish body politic of the time and its key personalities and institutions. In sparkling, often very funny prose the country is anatomized in a way which will make uncomfortable reading for many current politicians and public office-holders today. The book culminates in a referendum and the inauguration of the new Scottish parliament. Echoes of present-day aspirations, antagonisms and concerns are all too evident.

Stramash!

2013-07-22 Sports & Recreation
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Release : 2013-07-22
Genre : Sports & Recreation
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Book Synopsis Stramash! by : Daniel Gray

Download or read book Stramash! written by Daniel Gray. This book was released on 2013-07-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fatigued by bloated big-game football and bored of a samey big cities, Daniel Gray went in search of small town Scotland and its teams. At the time when the Scottish club game is drifting towards its lowest ebb once more, Stramash singularly falls to wring its hands and address the state of the game, preferring instead to focus on Bobby Mann's waistline. Part travelogue, part history and part mistakenly spilling ketchup on the face of a small child, Stramash takes an uplifting look at the country's nether regions. Using the excuse of a match to visit places from Dumfries to Dingwall, Gray surveys Scotland's towns and teams in their present state. Stramash accomplishes the feats of visiting Dumfries without mentioning Robert Burns, being positive about Cumbernauld and linking Elgin City to Lenin. It is ae fond look at Scotland as you've never seen it before. REVIEWS: 'There have been previous attempts by authors to explore the off-the-beaten paths of the Scottish football landscape, but Daniel Gray's volume is in another league' - THE SCOTSMAN 'Truly splendid' - ARTHUR MONTFORD 'An excellent book about the country's smaller teams - [Stramash] captures the vague romance that still clings to these smaller Scottish clubs. It will make a must-read for every non-Old Firm football fan - and for many Rangers and Celtic supporters too' - DAILY Record' As he takes in a match at each stopping-off point, Gray presents little portraits of small Scottish towns, relating histories of declining industry, radical politics and the connection between a team and its community. It's a brilliant way to rediscover Scotland' - THE HERALD' A great read, because Gray doesn't write about just football, he uses football as an excuse to explore the histories of small towns in Scotland' - THE SKINNY 'Why do the Gers and Hoops have retail outlets in the capital? Why do buses depart for Glasgow on a Saturday morning from every corner of Scotland? Gray's book is a splendid attempt to answer these questions, and more besides - The result is sociology at its best, which is to say eminently readable - Stramash may turn out to be a memoir of the way we were, and an epitaph' - SUNDAY HERALD' I defy anyone to read Stramash and not fall in love with Scottish football's blessed eccentricities all over again - Funny enough to bring on involuntary laugh out loud moments' - THE SCOTTISH FOOTBALL BLOG

"Gonnae Gi'es A Kick O' Yer Ba' Mister?"

2020-12-16
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Release : 2020-12-16
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Book Synopsis "Gonnae Gi'es A Kick O' Yer Ba' Mister?" by : Anthony Haggerty

Download or read book "Gonnae Gi'es A Kick O' Yer Ba' Mister?" written by Anthony Haggerty. This book was released on 2020-12-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthony Haggerty worked for the Scottish Daily Record newspaper on the sports desk for more than two decades. This career defining role took him all over the world with pitstops at many European football destinations along the way. Read how Haggerty embarks on a mazy, solo run and dribble with his own football heroes - Maradona, George Best, Johan Cruyff, Henrik Larsson, Ruud Gullit alongside a whole host of others - acting as teammates. Family and football are also neatly fused together as the author takes us on an amazing anecdotal and emotional journey of a lifetime watching the beautiful game. You'll laugh out loud and you may even cry at this heart-warming tale as Haggerty recounts his career best highlights during his 20 year stint as a sports reporter with Scotland's No.1 selling tabloid.

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