Turf Wars: The West Midlands explores the rich and fiercely contested history of football in the region where the Football League was conceived, revealing the rivalries, personalities and power struggles that helped shape the modern game.
In the third volume of the acclaimed Turf Wars series, journalist and broadcaster Steve Tongue traces more than a century of football across the West Midlands. From Aston Villa and Birmingham City to Wolverhampton Wanderers and West Bromwich Albion, the region's great clubs forged rivalries that remain among the most passionate in English football. Alongside them are the stories of clubs large and small, from the Potteries to the Black Country and beyond.
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Journalist and broadcaster Steve Tongue watched his first Midlands match at Highfield Road, Coventry, in 1957 and has followed the game avidly ever since. He was the founder of FOUL magazine, the first football fanzine, and as the football correspondent of Independent Radio News and The Independent on Sunday among others, he covered nine World Cups and nine European Championships, plus two Olympic Games.
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Paperback. Etat : New. In the third volume of the acclaimed Turf Wars series, journalist and broadcaster Steve Tongue looks at the history of football in the West Midlands, where the world's first Football League was dreamed up and administered more than 130 years ago. Fierce rivalries had already emerged by then, and have remained as strong as anywhere. Aston Villa and Birmingham City (as Small Heath Alliance) were founded within a year of each other, only a few miles apart, as were equally bitter neighbours West Bromwich Albion and Wolves. And just as in London and Lancashire, turf wars were fought off the pitch too. In Burton and Walsall, the biggest local clubs once amalgamated to carry the name of their town forward. But what an outcry there was in the Potteries when Stoke City and Port Vale almost did the same. This is the story of them all, large and small, and non-league too with a colourful cast of characters - Stanley Matthews and Billy Wright, Major Frank Buckley and Ron Atkinson, William McGregor, Jimmy Hill and 'Deadly' Doug Ellis among them. N° de réf. du vendeur LU-9781785318658
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Paperback. Etat : New. In the third volume of the acclaimed Turf Wars series, journalist and broadcaster Steve Tongue looks at the history of football in the West Midlands, where the world's first Football League was dreamed up and administered more than 130 years ago. Fierce rivalries had already emerged by then, and have remained as strong as anywhere. Aston Villa and Birmingham City (as Small Heath Alliance) were founded within a year of each other, only a few miles apart, as were equally bitter neighbours West Bromwich Albion and Wolves. And just as in London and Lancashire, turf wars were fought off the pitch too. In Burton and Walsall, the biggest local clubs once amalgamated to carry the name of their town forward. But what an outcry there was in the Potteries when Stoke City and Port Vale almost did the same. This is the story of them all, large and small, and non-league too with a colourful cast of characters - Stanley Matthews and Billy Wright, Major Frank Buckley and Ron Atkinson, William McGregor, Jimmy Hill and 'Deadly' Doug Ellis among them. N° de réf. du vendeur LU-9781785318658
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Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. In the third volume of the acclaimed Turf Wars series, journalist and broadcaster Steve Tongue looks at the history of football in the West Midlands, where the world's first Football League was dreamed up and administered more than 130 years ago. Fierce rivalries had already emerged by then, and have remained as strong as anywhere. Aston Villa and Birmingham City (as Small Heath Alliance) were founded within a year of each other, only a few miles apart, as were equally bitter neighbours West Bromwich Albion and Wolves. And just as in London and Lancashire, turf wars were fought off the pitch too. In Burton and Walsall, the biggest local clubs once amalgamated to carry the name of their town forward. But what an outcry there was in the Potteries when Stoke City and Port Vale almost did the same. This is the story of them all, large and small, and non-league too with a colourful cast of characters - Stanley Matthews and Billy Wright, Major Frank Buckley and Ron Atkinson, William McGregor, Jimmy Hill and 'Deadly' Doug Ellis among them. The latest volume in the Turf Wars series tells the story of a region where local rivalries like those between Aston Villa and Birmingham City, West Bromwich Albion and Wolves, and Stoke City and Port Vale go back over 130 years. From the region's biggest clubs to the non-league, this is a story filled with colourful characters. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. N° de réf. du vendeur 9781785318658
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