Uppies and Downies: The Extraordinary Football Games of Britain
From the publisher:
‘A beautifully detailed, superbly illustrated account of some of British football’s most unusual games. Part of the excellent Played in Britain series, it’s an engaging, enthusiastic account of the nation’s most eccentric football variants: from public schools to small-village, pub-based free-for-alls. It’s a book full of tradition, passion, blood and mud.’ – The Observer
‘Hornby, a former curator of the National Football Museum in Preston, has done a fantastic job to immerse himself in so many communities to untangle the threads that come together in festival football games.’ –
Daily TelegraphA detailed and superbly illustrated account of some of British football’s most unusual games, Looks at the nation’s most eccentric football variants and analyses them as part of a collective tradition.
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Liverpool University Press
21 x 21 cm
Paperback
180 pages
February 2008
English
9781905624645
