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Football
Ken Ferris
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Description for Football
Paperback. Provides a guide to the origins of the terms associated with the professional football clubs in the English leagues. This book provides etymologies and histories, excavates old grounds, maps the changes in fortune and culture that each club has gone through in its inexorable progress, and is intended for football fans. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: WSJA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 298.
Contains latin mottos, club names, nicknames, ground names, club crests, fanzines and websites, songs that grow out of hymns, songs that grow out of pop, all add to the colour of the language associated with football. This is the word and landscape in which feet and balls and lines and posts and hands and elbows come together to make ravishing kinetic geometry of the beautiful game. "Football: Terms and Teams" provides a concise guide to the origins of the terms associated with the ninety-two professional football clubs in the English leagues. It tells readers all that they need to know, ... Read more
Contains latin mottos, club names, nicknames, ground names, club crests, fanzines and websites, songs that grow out of hymns, songs that grow out of pop, all add to the colour of the language associated with football. This is the word and landscape in which feet and balls and lines and posts and hands and elbows come together to make ravishing kinetic geometry of the beautiful game. "Football: Terms and Teams" provides a concise guide to the origins of the terms associated with the ninety-two professional football clubs in the English leagues. It tells readers all that they need to know, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781857547771
SKU
V9781857547771
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-12
About Ken Ferris
KENNETH FERRIS is the author of Tragedy, Destiny, History: Manchester United in Europe (Mainstream, 2001; reprinted 2003, 2004), The Double: The Inside Story of Spurs Triumphant 1960-61 Season (Mainstream, 1995) and Football Fanatic (Two Heads Publishing, 1995). He was Reuters football correspondent in Tokyo (1996-8) and covered the 1998 and 2002 World Cups and Euro 2004 and the 1997 World ... Read more
Reviews for Football
'Ken Ferris, who once visited all ninety-two Football League club grounds in record time, as again completed a tour de force, this time of the trivia and minutiae of the sport that all fans love. A classic of its kind!' - Mike Collett, author of 'The Complete Record of the FA Cup.'