Hatters, Railwaymen and Knitters

Travels through England’s Football Provinces

Mr Daniel Gray (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

320 Seiten

2014
Bloomsbury Sport (Verlag)
978-1-4088-3099-4 (ISBN)

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Daniel Gray is about to turn thirty. Like any sane person, his response is to travel to Luton, Crewe and Hinckley. After a decade's exile in Scotland, he sets out to reacquaint himself with England via what he considers its greatest asset: football.

Watching teams from the Championship (or Division Two as any right-minded person calls it) to the South West Peninsula Premier, and aimlessly walking around towns from Carlisle to Newquay, Gray paints a curious landscape forgotten by many. He discovers how the provinces made the England we know, from Teesside's role in the Empire to Luton's in our mongrel DNA.

Moments in the histories of his teams come together to form football's narrative, starting with Sheffield pioneers and ending with fan ownership at Chester, and Gray shows how the modern game unifies an England in flux and dominates the places in which it is played.

Hatters, Railwaymen and Knitters is a wry and affectionate ramble through the wonderful towns and teams that make the country and capture its very essence. It is part-football book, part-travelogue and part-love letter to the bits of England that often get forgotten, celebrated here in all their blessed eccentricity.

Author and historian Daniel Gray is the writer of Stramash and Homage to Caledonia. For a short period in the early 1990s he was the finest left-back in his village, once marking Gordon Strachan’s youngest son (the one who didn’t become a footballer) out of the game. A Middlesbrough supporter, Daniel began attending football matches in 1988 and has never recovered. He has worked in a psychiatric hospital, a library and in television and politics. He loves staring out of train windows and lives in Leith with his wife and daughter. Follow him on Twitter at @d_gray_writer.

Introduction

PART ONE: IN THE WINTER: SCABS, BLADES, HATTERS AND TRACTOR BOYS
1 Middlesbrough
2 Sheffield
3 Luton
4 Ipswitch

PART TWO: IN THE SPRING: HORNETS, OS, SEALS AND RAILWAYMEN
5 Watford
6 Leyton
7 Chester
8 Crewe

PART THREE: IN THE SUMMER: KNITTERS, CLARETS AND BANTAMS
9 The Middle of England
10 Burnley
11 Bradford

PART FOUR: IN THE AUTUMN: BLUES AND PEPPERMINTS
12 Carlisle

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Acknowledgements

Erscheint lt. Verlag	14.8.2014
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	129 x 198 mm
Gewicht	256 g
Themenwelt	Sport ► Ballsport ► Fußball
	Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Europa
	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Sportwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-4088-3099-X / 140883099X
ISBN-13	978-1-4088-3099-4 / 9781408830994
Zustand	Neuware