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Post by jamesdoig on Jul 10, 2021 23:03:04 GMT
Women's footy in Australia is huge, though the AFLW season only lasts a few months prior to the blokes' season - hopefully they'll extend it given its popularity. Mind you, there were a lot of tough years before the league offered decent salaries. Here's highlights of this year's grand final with Brisbane breaking their duck.
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Post by dem bones on Jul 24, 2021 11:09:24 GMT
Gemma Clarke - Soccer Women: The Icons, Rebels, Stars and Trailblazers Who Transformed The Beautiful Game (Bold Type Books, 2019) Preface
Stepping out of the Shadows: 1890's - 1980s. From Bare Bones to Bare Bras: 1990s A League of their Own: 2000s Fighting for Equality: 2010s The Future is Female: 2020s
Acknowledgements Image credits BibliographyBlurb: BOLD AND INSPIRING PROFILES OF THE PIONEERS, CHAMPIONS, AND FUTURE HEROINES OF WOMEN'S SOCCER AROUND THE WORLD Women's soccer has come a long way — from its origins as a matchmaking custom in the Scottish Highlands through country-wide bans, cast-off men's uniforms, and practices in parking lots, to a global sport attracting hundreds of millions of viewers. This is the history of the game told through the players themselves, the world-famous — like Mia Hamm. Abby Wambach, and Brazil's Marta — as well as the long-forgotten, unsung talents, and rising stars. These women are not just first-rate athletes; they are fighters who have battled everything from inequality and discrimination to racism and homophobia. Their determination has propelled the women's game through decades of disdainful treatment to help shape the political landscape far beyond their sport. Based on original interviews with dozens of current and former players and coaches, this book celebrates these remarkable women and their pioneering achievements. Gemma Clarke is a sports journalist based in the US. She has written about soccer for the Guardian, the Observer, the Times [UK] the Daily Telegraph, and the London Evening Standard. Had no idea of this books existence until yesterday when I spotted a copy among the non-fiction titles in the Spitalfiends Crypt Charity shop (Watney Market chapter). Wish I could say that it's the paperback a few of us have been crying out for, but I'm afraid we'll have to keep looking. Of the 340 plus pages, a mere 31 are devoted to the years 1890 through to the close of the 1980s. Stating obvious, Soccer Women's main strength lies in the multiple entries on current/ recent superstars, including Lieke Martens, Birgit Prinz, Carli Lloyd, Megan Rapinoe, Hope Solo - but of course - though alas, no Lady Andrade. Introduction includes author's experience of reporting on the men's game, and the inevitable ugly abuse she received for doing so (joys of social media, Pt. 10 million). One minor complaint. Bibliography contains way too many links to individual youtube videos (why? the links will have changed/ the videos will have been deleted before the book reached the printers).
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Post by dem bones on Oct 25, 2021 9:40:42 GMT
David Hills & Giles Richards [eds] - You Are The Ref: 50 Years of Paul Trevillion's Cult Comic Strip (Observer Books, 2006) Introduction
The Early Years: 1952-9 The Shoot Years: 1969-83 The Observer: 2006 - Blurb: "Why was I never booked in my career? Maybe it was all those afternoons reading You Are The Ref as a boy... a fantastic strip by a brilliant artist. This book is a fitting tribute to 50 years of a real football classic" - Gary Lineker
Think you know the beautiful game inside out and can do a better job than the man in black?
Legendary Roy of the Rovers illustrator Paul Trevillion's cult classic comic strip puts you in the hot seat and asks the question: what decision would you make? Lavishly illustrated with explosive all-action Images of stars from all eras, and packed with hidden treasures including fascinating and previously unseen memorabilia, You Are The Ref is the ultimate football book for fans of all ages. For anyone who has ever questioned a referee's provenance, suggested he should consult an optometrist, or unfairly mistaken him for a merchant banker - now it's your turn. Just remember: the referee's decision is final.Copped this for £1 at yesterday's market. Lovely scrapbook layout. Charts the evolution of Paul Trevillion's popular strip, from early incarnations as Hey Ref!, Sports Quiz in The People, through If You Were The Ref ( Roy of the Rovers Annual 1965, to Shoot's You are the Ref from the late 'sixties onward. The pre- Observer years include press clippings and ephemera among the strips, also, big match previews (see below); The Jimmy Greaves Story ("Today [1967] Greaves is as physically and mentally fit as he's ever been, and the signs are that there are many more moments of glory heading his way"); The George Best Story ("When my days with United are over, I think I'll have to find some local club where I can kick a ball around for 90 minutes a week - even if it's the local gaswork's side!"); and various guest contributions, eg., Meet the REAL cloggers - Allan 'Sniffer' Clarke exposes the REAL hatchet men - "not the recognised hard players Harris, Storey, Norman Hunter. They're hard alright, but they're fair and not cowards." A real gem of a compilation. Vault handy hint: Brush up on your soccer knowledge because there might be a quiz for you to ignore later!
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Post by dem bones on Dec 19, 2023 12:28:17 GMT
Simon Inglis [ed.] - The Best of Charlie Buchan's Football Monthly (English Heritage, 2006) Introduction
Selections from 1951-1953 Notes Honours Selections from 1953-1956 Notes Honours Selections from 1956-1959 Notes Honours Selections from 1959-1962 Notes Honours Selections from 1962-1965 Notes Honours Selections from 1965 -1968 Notes Honours Selections from 1968 -1971 Notes Honours
Postscript IndexBlurb: Charles Buchan's Football Monthly — British football's first 'glossy — hit the bookstands in 1951, bringing colour and glamour to a bomb-scarred nation. Every schoolboy wanted to buy it. Every player wanted to be part of it. For two decades it captured the heart and soul of the game. Here are the best bits, a grand reminder of how it was in the days of rattles and Bovril, short back and sides, black and white TV and not a logo in sight. Good old Charlie! Good Old Charlie, indeed. And good old Simon — author of the classic travelogue Football Against The Enemy, a study of the game's most psychopathic rivalries — for compiling so gorgeous and absorbing an overview of Mr. Buchan's trailblazing publication. Standout articles include a report on the sad demise of Accrington Stanley FC; "We will remember them" - Buchan's poignant (how could it be otherwise) tribute to the players and journalists who lost their lives in the Munich air crash; Caging the Soccer Rowdies; "Keep those 'Reforming' Meddlers out of Football;" Spurs star Eddie Baily's favourite cigarette; the Magnificent Magyars; "Wake up, England! — We must become Continental to win"; and features on or by a teenage Terry Venables, pre- Comedians incarnation Charlie Williams of Doncaster Rovers, Len 'the Clown Prince of Soccer' Shackleton, etc. Perhaps most rewarding of all, the readers letters; British football is best! Stamp out unmanly hugging! Bring back baggy shorts! Who do those blooming Argies think they are? Wembley Stadium is a morgue. "Hooligans - give them a damn good hiding!" and, from Miss J. Stanley, 13, of Nottingham, "Why can't the thick-headed male realise that more and more women are becoming followers of our great game?" Len Ward Len Ward
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Post by dem bones on Dec 21, 2023 11:10:18 GMT
More from Charlie Buchan's; England win the Dirty World Cup.
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