Bring Me the Sports Jacket of Arthur Montford (eBook)

An Adventure Through Scottish Football

Aidan Smith (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
208 Seiten
Arena Sport (Verlag)
978-1-78885-093-3 (ISBN)

Infos

A Scotland on Sunday Sports Book of the Year
Take a hilarious romp through the best and worst of Scottish footballing history.
The Scot who won England the World Cup. Macaroon bars and Bovril. When Dixie Deans met Bob Marley. When Davie Robb met Olivia Newton-John. When George McCluskey met the Stones. When Rick Wakeman filed match reports for Meadowbank Thistle. Triumphs and disasters, submarines and rowing boats, War and Peace (who's read it). The Cowdenbeath kettle. The Brechin hedge. Morton's great Danes. Icarus at East Fife. The dead pigeon sketch and the amazing technicolor booze-coat. The can girls. Those who flogged ice cream and licked Hitler. The world's oldest conjoined twins. Inside the half-time scoreboards. Our greatest goal, our greatest assist, our keepers. Scarlett Johansson! And of course Arthur Montford - commentator, curator, favourite uncle to the nation.
In Bring Me the Sports Jacket of Arthur Montford, Aidan Smith mines Scottish football history for quirk, strangeness and charm. On a journey that takes him to Albania and also Albion Rovers, great players are celebrated and so are great characters. Rediscover old legends (not told this way before) and maybe learn about new ones. If there's a running theme it's that our game, its participants and those who watch in the rain are one and the same thing - indomitable.

Autor

Aidan Smith is the author of three previous books: Persevered, Heartfelt and Union Jock. He is a journalist with The Scotsman and a seven-times winner in the Scottish Press Awards. 

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.11.2022
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sport ► Ballsport ► Fußball
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Weitere Fachgebiete ► Sportwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: 100 Objects • Aberdeen • Aidan Smith • Albion Rovers • Alloa • Alternative Football Museum • arbroath • Arthur Montford • Bob Marley • Bovril • Celtic • Christmas • Comedy • Cowdenbeath kettle • Darvel • Dixie Deans • Dundee United • Dunfermline Athletic • east fife • EURO 2024 • Football • football gift • Football History • gallacher • George McCluskey • Germany 2024 • Gift • Gift Book • Greenock Morton • Hamilton Academical • Hearts • hibernian • hibs • History of Scottish Football • History of sport • Hughie • Humor • Humour • indomitable • Kilmarnock • laugh-out-loud • Livingston • Macaroon bars • Meadowbank Thistle • Moments • Motherwell • national • Non-fiction • old legends • Partick Thistle • Persevered • present • Rangers • Ross County • Scarlett Johansson • Scotland • Scottish Cup • Scottish Football history • Scottish History • Scottish humour • Soccer • Steve Clarke • St Johnstone • St Mirren • stocking filler • stocking-filler • Tartan Army • The Brechin hedge • The Scotsman • The Tartan Army • Tiny Wharton • World Cup
• ISBN-10: 1-78885-093-9 / 1788850939
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78885-093-3 / 9781788850933