The Best Man United Football Chants Ever - Manchester United Songs
Author: A Fan
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 82
ISBN-13: 055718987X
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The Naughty Nineties
Author: Martin King
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2011-11-18
Total Pages: 155
ISBN-13: 178057388X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFootball has reinvented itself. As television money has poured into the game, the traditional working-class fans have poured out - not by choice, but by economic necessity. According to those in charge of the game the football hooligan has at last been eliminated from the landscape. But how true is this much-vaunted claim? Martin King, author of Hoolifan, brings his story up to date in The Naughty Nineties. Ironically, he finds that football hooligans now really are in the minority but they are far more dangerous and committed than ever before.
Doolally
Author: David Gill
Publisher: PDG Books Ltd
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 1905519001
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJim Taylor's obsession with football might well cost him his job. The angry, youthful narrator of Beastmouse is mentally scarred by the injustices his favourite team has suffered. What if the Russian millionaire who flies in to rescue Leeds United is not who he seems?
A Seat in the Crowd
Author: Paul Windridge
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Published: 2007-02-26
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 1412241219
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"A Seat in the Crowd" is about travelling the length and breadth of England and Europe in order to watch Manchester United. It is about the lifelong journey of two supporters (with the help of one or two friends along the way) who have been following their club for over 40 years each. A lifetime's support which has enjoyed a renaissance over the last decade due to the superb management of Alex Ferguson, who has taken the team, and consequently us too, to heights never before scaled. At the start of any season no-one can possibly know the outcome. Plenty think they do, but that is mere blind faith. It is an adventure which happens every year and these last few years have been very special to United supporters and most especially to us. Through the internet and the Manchester United mailing lists some of us have found friendship which will last the test of time. Apart from family, none of us mentioned in this book knew each other four years ago, but we are now a group of friends who have become an extended family. "A Seat in the Crowd" is just as much about these people as it is about the team on the pitch.
The Best Manchester City Football Chants Ever
Author: A Fan
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 58
ISBN-13: 0557189918
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPerforming National Identity
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2008-01-01
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 940120523X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNational identity is not some naturally given or metaphysically sanctioned racial or territorial essence that only needs to be conceptualised or spelt out in discursive texts; it emerges from, takes shape in, and is constantly defined and redefined in individual and collective performances. It is in performances—ranging from the scenarios of everyday interactions to ‘cultural performances’ such as pageants, festivals, political manifestations or sports, to the artistic performances of music, dance, theatre, literature, the visual and culinary arts and more recent media—that cultural identity and a sense of nationhood are fashioned. National identity is not an essence one is born with but something acquired in and through performances. Particularly important here are intercultural performances and transactions, and that not only in a colonial and postcolonial dimension, where such performative aspects have already been considered, but also in inner-European transactions. ‘Englishness’ or ‘Britishness’ and Italianità, the subject of this anthology, are staged both within each culture and, more importantly, in joint performances of difference across cultural borders. Performing difference highlights differences that ‘make a difference’; it ‘draws a line’ between self and other—boundary lines that are, however, constantly being redrawn and renegotiated, and remain instable and shifting.
Love Hurts
Author: Fraser Marr
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2012-01-27
Total Pages: 188
ISBN-13: 1780574258
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMost relationships between a fan and a favourite football team go way beyond the casual. Almost always that relationship is a torrid, steamy and passionate love affair. A love affair that rarely lives up to expectations. A love affair that seldom satisfies and, most of the time, just plain hurts. So it is for supporters of Leeds United, a club with a big reputation secured in the late 1960s and early '70s, but tarnished in the '80s and rebuilt only partially in the '90s. Come the start of the 1996-97 season, Leeds were a Premiership club on paper, but on the pitch looked far from it. The supporters groaned and the new board acted swiftly, manager Howard Wilkinson being replaced by the once disgraced George Graham. The football world watched as the former Arsenal supreme sought to rebuild both Leeds and his own reputation. All the club had was time, hope and the love of its fans . . . Love Hurts tells the story of some of those fans. It is a diary of one extraordinary season, told and photographed in a uniquely personal way by two men for whom following Leeds is a labour of love requiring hours of motorway travel to matches offering variable amounts of torment and despair, of ecstasy and humour. The book pulls no punches, and points the finger whether the team wins or loses. No quarter is given and no fan of any team who reads is can fail to recognise the joy and pain it contains.
Retailisation
Author: Francesca de Châtel
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004-08-02
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 1135476098
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInvestigates the current state of selling, and reflects the complexity and ubiquity of information flows, processes and convergence of media in the wired world.
The Book of Football Quotations
Author: Phil Shaw
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2011-04-30
Total Pages: 576
ISBN-13: 1446458903
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe greatest football quotations collection ever, now in its ninth edition. This compilation includes quotes from everyone – Shakespeare to Suarez, Camus to Cantona, Busby to Beckham – who has made an apt, pithy or comical comment about football. And not just footballers and managers either – fans, pundits, groundsmen, directors and wives all get to have their say too. Every subject is covered, from tactical debates to changing lifestyles, to produce a sometimes hilarious and always thought-provoking commentary on the game. ‘My players are always the best players in the world, even if they aren’t’ - José Mourinho ‘He was a quiet man, Eric Cantona, but he was a man of few words’ - David Beckham ‘Sometimes when you aim for the stars you hit the moon’ - Ian Holloway
Red Glory
Author: Martin Edwards
Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books
Published: 2017-09-07
Total Pages: 367
ISBN-13: 1782438114
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Red Glory Martin Edwards shares a multitude of wonderful memories and amazing stories and revelations of the great success story of Manchester United.
