Red Men : Liverpool Football Club - The Biography

by Unknown

• ISBN13: 9781845965570
• ISBN10: 1845965574
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2010-10-01
• Publisher: Mainstream

Summary

The Story of Liverpool Football club has been a joyous and remarkable one, if one also characterized by vital moments of real human drama and occasional terrible loss. This is, of course, what makes the modern Liverpool FC precisely what it is. Come on, you Red Men! Book jacket.

Author Biography

John Williams has been studying soccer as a sociologist for the past 30 years and is the author of several books on Liverpool FC, including Into the Red, The Miracle of Istanbul, and Passing Rhythms.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 11
Football in Liverpool - From the Very Beginning	p. 17
Liverpool Out of Everton - One Seed, Two Clubs	p. 33
Turning Ie Into Fire - Tom Watson, the First Great liverpool Manager	p. 59
As Many Downs as Ups - The Topsy-Turvy 1900s	p. 87
The First FA Cup Final - 1914 at the Palace, and Then ar	p. 117
The Roaring Twenties - Liverpool Back on the Title Trail	p. 143
'Where's Liverpool?' - 'Top of the League!'	p. 161
They Shall Be Our Teachers - The First Internationalisation of Liverpool FC	p. 177
Lisha! Lisha! - Elisha Scott and the Liverpool Kop	p. 195
Football Life During Wartime - Surviving the Conflict and Emerging Stronger	p. 213
1946-47, Champions Again - George Kay and the Willie and Albert Show	p. 225
The Almost Seasons - The Double Frustration of 1950	p. 245
The Rocky Road to Glenbuc - The Bleak 1950s	p. 269
Bill Shankly and the New Liverpool - Or How the Liverpool Board Finally Learned How to Spend Money	p. 295
Ee-Aye-Addio, the FA Cup at Last! - Liverpool FC at Wembley and in Europe	p. 317
Nothing but Blue Skies - Bob Paisley in Charge at Anfield	p. 339
At the Dark End of the Street - Heysel and Hillsborough	p. 367
Continental Drift - The New Liverpool Technocrats	p. 387
Epilogue: There Must Be Some Way Out of Here - The Liverpool Ownership Crisis	p. 405
Bibliography - Sources and Useful Reading	p. 420
Index	p. 425
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