Steel City Rivals - One City. Two Football Clubs, One Mutually Shared Hatred (eBook)

Steve Cowens (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2012
300 Seiten
John Blake Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-78219-076-9 (ISBN)

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Football rivalry is a common factor anywhere in the world where the sport is played. But some take it far more seriously than others. In Sheffield, the traditional capital of Britain's steel manufacturing industry, there is no greater tribal divide than that between fans of Sheffield United and Sheffield Wednesday. The two clubs' supporters berate each other with a venomous passion, their long-running feud intense enough to divide families and workplaces from 1889 to the present day. But why? How does a natural rivalry that, in the 1960s, saw supporters from both clubs going to Hillsborough Stadium (Wednesday's ground) one week then Bramell Lane (home to United) the next turn to such enmity? In Steel City Rivals, authors Cowens (a United supporter) and Cronshaw (Wednesday) leaven their insider knowledge and fan anecdotes with a dark humour and bitter fascination with football violence. The struggle for supremacy between red (United) and blue (Wednesday), between 'blade' and 'owl', is absolute. To the people of Sheffield, Britain's fourth largest city, it's never just a game.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.9.2012
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Politik / Gesellschaft
• Themenwelt: Sport ► Ballsport ► Fußball
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
• Schlagworte: Anthony Cronshaw • Arctic Monkeys • Bramall Lane • Danny Wilson • Dave Jones • Football • Football League • Football Rivals • football violence • Gary Speed • Hillsborough • Hooligans • Howard Wilkinson • Jack Charlton • Jarvis Cocker • Jessica Ennis • Local Derby • Michael Vaughan • Micky Adams • Milan Mandaric • Neil Warnock • Sean Bean • Sheffield • Sheffield United FC • Sheffield Wednesday FC • Soccer • South Yorkshire • Steel City • Steel City Debry • Steve Cowens • The Blades • The Boxing Day Massacre • The Championship • The Greasy Chip Butty Song • The Owls • The Semi-Final Match • The Wednesday • Trevor Francis • True Crime
• ISBN-10: 1-78219-076-7 / 1782190767
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78219-076-9 / 9781782190769