Soccer in the dock: A history of British football scandals, 1900-1965

Inglis, Simon

Willow Books

Football Grounds of England and Wales

Sports & Outdoors

Soccer

HarperCollins Distribution Services

League Football and the Men Who Made It: The Official Centenary History of the Football League, 1888-1988

HarperCollins, Publishers

As a result of the Taylor Report, which arose from the Hillsborough disaster, Football League and Scottish League clubs are having to make stringent alterations to their grounds, in preparation for all-seater stadia. This revised edition reflects many of those changes, as well as the promotion to Football League status of Maidstone United and Barnet. New illustrations have been included, where appropriate. Since his book was first published in 1983 as "The Football Grounds of England and Wales", Simon Inglis has become acknowledged as an authority on the safety aspects of football ground architecture, and is now a member of the Football Licensing Authority. His survey, in this book, of every ground in all Divisions of the Football and Scottish Leagues, discusses their significance from the perspectives of football history, architecture, safety and social history.

The Football Grounds of Great Britain

HarperCollinsWillow

In tracing the history and design of over 150 European stadiums, the author visited every major World Cup and club venue from 33 countries, noting en route not only their architectural development but also their place in the sporting and social milieu.

The Football Grounds of Europe

Football (American)

Sightlines

RANDOM HOUSE UK

Soccer Skills, Tricks, and Tactics

Children's Books

Literature & Fiction

Educational Development Corporation

Played in Birmingham is the fifth book in a groundbreaking English Heritage series celebrating Britain’s rich and diverse sporting heritage. Lavishly illustrated and adopting a completely new approach to the study of sporting and urban history, Played in Birmingham leads readers along a trail of fascinating locations and little known buildings, landscapes and waterscapes, in all corners of the city and its surrounds. Birmingham is a city founded upon hard work, enterprise and civic pride.  Its stock of historic public baths includes three of the oldest operational swimming pools in Britain. In 1888 a Birmingham draper was responsible for setting up the Football League, the first in the world.  Birmingham also has a proud record at grassroots level.  Following on from the pioneering example set at Bournville by the Quaker brothers, George and Richard Cadbury, during the early 20th century Birmingham industrialists invested in a network of sports facilities for their employees that gave rise to the largest works football association ever known. Birmingham was the cradle of lawn tennis, in the 1860s, and the setting for the world’s first snooker championships, in 1927.  Its numerous workshops have also been responsible for supplying medals, cups and trophies for generations of international competitions, plus no fewer than 200 million Acme Thunderer whistles, the first choice of referees around the world since 1884. For those who do not know the city, or perhaps dismiss it as a mere concrete jungle, Played in Birmingham also reveals a wealth of green space  parks, golf courses, cricket grounds and bowling greens  several barely more than a mile or so from the Bull Ring.  Perhaps even more surprising, Birmingham’s topography is interlaced with rivers, brooks, lankes and pools, with Edgbaston Reservoir forming one of the great waterscapes of urban Britain  a magnet for anglers and sailors alike. This is a book full of delightful surprises and quirky details, many of which are little known, even within the Birmingham area.  There has never been a history of the city quite like it.

Played in Birmingham: Charting the heritage of a city at play (Played in Britain)

History

Beauchampe, Steve

Europe

Historic England

From its first century Roman amphitheatre to the 21st century Olympic Stadium at Stratford, London has always been a city of spectacles and sporting fever. Profusely illustrated with detailed maps and in-depth research, Played in London is the most ambitious offering yet from the acclaimed Played in Britain series. Capital sport guaranteed.

Played in London: Charting the heritage of a city at play (Played in Britain)

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

Professional football provide one of the Victoran era's most mesmerising spectacles, developed at a time when the British public has at its disposal more free time and spare pennies than ever before. But as the bread became more plentiful, it needed someone to build the circuses. That man was Archibald Leitch. Born in Glasgow in 1865, Archibald Leitch - a consulting engineer and factory architect by profession - became to football what Frank Matcham was to theatre; in effect, its designer in chief. Millions of spectators sat or stood in Leitch's structures, built for such famous clubs as Arsenal, Manchester United, Chelsea, Everton, Liverpool, Tottenham, Aston Villa, Hearts and, not least, Glasgow Rangers, where his stadium career began in 1899, and nearly ended just three years later, when one of his stands gave way, leading to the death of 26 spectators. Leitch witnessed the tragedy and vowed never to let it be repeated. But while his pedimented gables and criss-cross steelwork balconies formed a recognisable and much-admired style, and his own patented crush barriers were so ubiquitous as to be virtually invisible, until now little has been known of Leitch himself. Moreover, following the modernisation of football grounds as a result of the Hillsborough disaster in 1989, only a dozen of his buildings survive. In this timely and entertaining study of Leitch's life, his works and his legacy, Simon Inglis has unearthed a surprising number of hitherto unseen plans, documents and archive photographs, many of them rich in detail.

Engineering Archie: Archibald Leitch - Football Ground Designer (Played in Britain)

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

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