Beastly fury : the strange birth of British football
Sanders, Richard2009
Books, Manuscripts
This is the story of how the modern, professional, spectator sport of football was born in Britain in the second half of the 19th century. It is a tale of testosterone-filled public schoolboys, eccentric mill-owners and bolshy miners, and of why we play football the way we do.
Main title:
Beastly fury : the strange birth of British football / Richard Sanders.
Author:
Imprint:
London : Bantam, 2009.
Collation:
xii, 308 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), ports. (some col.) ; 23 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780593059708 (hbk)
Dewey class:
796.3340941796.334
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
103929