Football Nation - Softcover

Andrew Ward; John M. Williams

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1408801264 ISBN 13: 9781408801260

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2010

Synopsis

This volume provides a rich portrait of English football from the end of the Second World War to the present.

About this title

About the Author:

Andrew Ward is a freelance writer. His football books include Kicking and Screaming (with Rogan Taylor), Football Strangest Matches, Ward's Soccerpedia and Barnsley: A Study in Football, 1953-59 (with Ian Alister). He lives in Stroud, Gloucestershire. John Williams is an academic researcher and lecturer in the sociology of sport at the University of Leicester. He has pioneered football research since his studies of hooliganism in the late-1970s and has written twelve books on football and fan culture, the most recent being The Miracle of Istanbul (with Stephen Hopkins) and Groove Armada: Benitez, Anfield and the New Spanish Fury (with Ramon Llopis). He lives in Leicester.

Review:

'Fascinating and entertaining study ... As accounts of one sport's pivotal role in society go, this would be hard to beat' Irish Times 'As Ward and Williams clearly demonstrate ...while the English game is many things - brave, fair, violent, tragic, romantic, funny ... it is not pretty. And that, of course, is just the way we, and many millions around the world, like it' Daily Mail 'Genuinely fresh appraisals on all manner of topics, from the obvious to the not-so-obvious ... A treasure' Sports Journalists' Association 'A weighty tome on the development of football in the post-war Britain ... [it] reads like a companion volume to David Kynaston's magisterial popular history of the Attlee years, Austerity Britain' The Oldie

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1408801264
• ISBN 13: 9781408801260
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 448