Football's Flaws & Foibles

Football's Flaws & Foibles

Author: Richard Foster

Publisher: eBook Partnership

Published: 2017-10-16

Total Pages: 213

ISBN-13: 1912317702

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Modern football is brilliant, and yet it is also utterly rubbish. For every part of the beautiful game that reminds us why we love it, there's another to drive us up the wall. Half-and-half scarves, designated singing sections, goal music and open letters - the list is endless. Football's Flaws & Foibles looks at some of the biggest transgressions and dissects just what lies at the heart of our annoyance. Featuring contributions from Kevin Day, Daniel Storey and more, this book provides moments of catharsis and debate in equal measure. If you've ever paid for a plane to fly a banner over a football ground then this may not be the book for you, but for the rest of us this is a place to wallow in collective frustrations.So if you have ever been irritated, enraged, aggravated or exasperated by the game you love, this book is very much for you.


Is it Just Me or is Modern Football S**t?

Is it Just Me or is Modern Football S**t?

Author: Jim Keoghan

Publisher: eBook Partnership

Published: 2021-05-10

Total Pages: 208

ISBN-13: 1785319329

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Does the sight of half-scarves enrage you? Does transfer-deadline day make you want to throw a brick through the TV? Do the opening bars of goal music make your ears bleed? If the answer is 'yes', then this could be the book for you. Since English football's very own 'Year Zero' in 1992, the game has changed beyond recognition, rejecting the rough-and-ready days of the past. And like any change, not all of it has been welcome. The quality of the 'football product' might be better but it's come with spiralling levels of debt, yawning inequality and Neymar advertising batteries. These, and many other ills of the modern game, form Jim Keoghan's exploration of the nation's favourite pastime. Navigating a world populated by dodgy owners, celebrity referees and Ray Winstone's floating head, he searches for an answer to the question: Is it Just Me or is Modern Football S**t?


Flawed Genius

Flawed Genius

Author: Stephen McGowan

Publisher: Birlinn

Published: 2011-10-04

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 0857901516

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As Rangers manager Walter Smith once put it, Scottish football supporters have always liked their footballing superstars to come complete with very human flaws. But what is it that makes the seriously flawed footballer so intriguing? From Hugh Gallacher, the Wembley Wizard who died of shame, to George Best, Hibernian's ageing lothario, to the Three Amigos - Celtic's trio of wayward overseas mercenaries - the great entertainers have always come with baggage. Never before have the individual stories of these mavericks of Scottish football's past been collated and told in one place. Flawed Genius does just that. Through the words of the men themselves - allied to testimonies from friends and close colleagues - McGowan recounts the in-depth stories of Gascoigne and Goram, Best and Baxter, Charnley and Cadette and the equally wayward figures of Paolo Di Canio, Andy Ritchie, Pierre van Hooijdonk and Willie Hamilton. Here, together for the first time, the colourful contributions of each and every player in the Scottish game's rich tapestry of flawed geniuses are brought vividly back to life.


Flat Army

Flat Army

Author: Dan Pontefract

Publisher: Figure 1 Publishing

Published: 2018-06-08

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13: 1773270605

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Your people are your most valuable asset, and if you want them to excel (and your profits to soar), you'll need to abandon your traditional command-and-control management style and adopt a collaborative, open leadership approach—one that engages and empowers your people. While this isn't a particularly new idea, many leaders, while they may pay lip service to it, don't really understand what it means. And most of those who do get it lack the skills for putting it into practice. In Flat Army you'll find powerful leadership models and tools that help you challenge yourself and overcome your personal obstacles to change, while pushing the boundaries of organizational change to create a culture of collaboration. • Develops an integrated framework incorporating collaboration, open leadership, technologies, and connected learning • Shows you how to flatten the organizational pyramid and engage with your peoples in more collaborative and productive ways—without undermining your authority • Explains how to deploy a Connected Leader mindset, a Participative Leader Framework, and a Collaborative Leader Action Model • Arms you with powerful tools for becoming a more visible leader who demonstrates the qualities and capabilities needed to become an agent of positive change


Common Sense

Common Sense

Author: J. Hingst

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 0595465781

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There is no doubt that life in the United States has undergone significant changes through the years. Many wonder what the future holds, and J. P. Hingst is no exception. In Common Sense, he explores the current condition of the United States as it relates to the founding fathers' ideas and intentions. Common Sense discusses politicians, the media, lawyers, businesses, and large organizations and how they try to control the public with taxes, laws, and policy. It looks beyond what these groups say their goals are and points out the unintended effects they have on the general population and peoples' individual rights. Dozens of examples and stories by Hingst provide a clear picture of common topics including: Drugs Traffic laws Bureaucracies Socialism Group dynamics Education Social skills Common courtesies Common sense Although there are no absolute solutions, the real answer is to be sure the consequences are not worse than the original problem. Common Sense encourages you to take a broad and critical look at what the leaders in America are saying and attempt to understand what is really happening or could happen in the future.


Studying Football

Studying Football

Author: Ellis Cashmore

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-03-17

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1317568974

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Football is the most widely played, watched and studied sport in the world. It’s hard to develop a full understanding of the significance of sport in global society without understanding the significance of football. Studying Football is the first book designed specifically to guide and support the study of football on degree-level courses, across the full range of social-scientific perspectives. Written by a team of leading international football experts, and considering themes of globalization, corporatization and prejudice and discrimination throughout, it introduces key topics in football studies, including: media and celebrity identity, fandom and consumption gender violence racism corruption Every chapter includes up-to-date case study material, a ‘Research in Action’ section and features to aid student understanding and bring theory to life. Studying Football introduces all the key themes and facets of the social-scientific study of football, and is therefore an essential text for students on football studies courses and useful reading for any undergraduates studying the sociology of sport more generally.


Fabulous Fred

Fabulous Fred

Author: Paul Amy

Publisher: Melbourne Books

Published: 2018-11-01

Total Pages: 262

ISBN-13: 1922129666

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Fred Cook began his football career with Footscray in the VFL. But he really made his name in the game after crossing to Port Melbourne in the VFA. His prodigious goalkicking in the 1970s earned him the nickname of 'Fabulous Fred' and fame at a pop-star level. He appeared on TV, on radio and wrote newspaper columns, and he mixed with Melbourne's sporting and entertainment elite. But he fell in with a criminal crowd, formed a drug habit, lost everything and did three spells in prison. Cook has led a remarkable life, going from hero to zero. He's always wanted to tell his story, which features football, crime and drugs, and the wider issue of sportspeople who struggle with normalcy once their careers have ended. Fred Cook's name still resonates, thirty years after his career ended. Last year he was nominated for the Australian Football Hall of Fame.


The A-Z of Football Hates

The A-Z of Football Hates

Author: Richard Foster

Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited

Published: 2014-08-15

Total Pages: 201

ISBN-13: 1445639939

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From Agents to Z-list celebrities, everything you love to hate about the national sport.