Football club histories come in all shapes and sizes. They range from old, old football books and pamphlets, detailing the early days of a club's history to contemporary football books, offering an up to date profile of hundreds of football clubs, domestic and international. Sometimes the club history is harder to discover. A souvenir guide and football programme for a fund raising event in 1925 might contain details of stallholders and the programme of entertainment at the event. But it also turns out to contain a detailed and fascinating history of Bury Football Club in its first fifty years of existence too.
Although Thomas Elyot mentions football in his VERY old football book in 1531, "football is nothinge but beastlie furie and extreme violence"and we know that mention of people palying football stretches back to at least the 1100s, the Football Association first codified a uniform set of rules for football in England in 1863. Up until then there had been several versions of rules for football. The agreed, uniform codification of football rules coincided with, or most probably came out of the increase in numbers of new football clubs. Clubs, such as Sheffield, Hallam FC, Crazy Wanderers, Worksop Town, Notts County, Stoke City and Bradford Park Avenue all were born between 1857 and 1863. Some are as familiar to us today, some have become defunct. Defunct or still thriving, all these football clubs have fascinating histories of their rises and falls, ebbs and flows of progress in football competition
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Lavishly illustrated magazine-style chronicle of Leicester's Premiership-winning season, featuring profiles and line-ups for every game. 4to. 82pp. Paperback. Very good condition.
£14.00
Full-page illustrated entries with biographies and statistics celebrating a selection of the club's biggest stars. 8vo. 128pp. Paperback. Very good condition.
£5.00
A complete football history of Leeds published to commemorate their centenary, featuring new archival research and two sections of photographic illustrations. 8vo. 440pp. Dust-wrapper. Very good condition.
£8.00
A lively and limited-edition account of Ipswich Town Football Club's UEFA Cup winning season under Bobby Robson, packed with contributions from those involved, including profiles of the leading players
£14.00
Season-by-season record of Preston North End from 1977-2002. 8vo. 160pp. Profusely illustrated. Pictorial boards, as new.
£15.00
The bird in question is, of course, the Liver Bird. A fan's eye view of the ups and downs of the last half century at Liverpool Football Club. 8vo. 323pp. Dust-wrappers. Fine
£6.00
Good history of Plymouth Argyle F.C with extensive statistical section, published for the Club's diamond jubilee. Paperback. First edition. Large 8vo (24 x 19cms). 128pp. Illus. Original pictorial wrappers,
£30.00
Football book. A very good history of the Welsh club. 4to. 176pp. Illustrated boards. In very good condition.
£40.00
Written by the first Chairman of the Board and long standing Club Director. 8vo. 134pp. Blue faux leather covered boards, gilt title to spine. In original dust-wrapper, in fine condition. Signed
£80.00
Photographic history of the club. 8vo. 128pp. Paperback. Fine condition.
£9.00
Football book. A look at some of the great matches in the history of Plymouth Argyle, with many photographs. Small 4to. 350pp. Illustrated boards. Very good condition.
£9.00
The history of Aston Villa Football Club from old postcards. Reprinted. Paperback. Paperback. Oblong 12mo. 88pp. Illustrated throughout. Very good.
£8.00
An amusing and fascinating illustrated account of the Red Devils' honours-less inter-war period which culminated in the youth policy that paved the way for the Busby Babes, with a complete statistical
£5.00
A fan's reflections on following Plymouth Argyle Football Club in recent seasons. 8vo. 167pp. Paperback. Fine condition.
£10.00
The story of the break up of the great Man City side of Mercer and Allison and the grim years that followed. First edition. 8vo. 187pp. Photos. A very good copy in dust wrapper.
£6.00
An exploration of two eras at Manchester United Football Club, through two ultimately ill-fated legends - Duncan Edwards and George Best - who played under one manager, Matt Busby, during the 1950s and
£8.00
A complete record of the almost 1,000 players who have appeared in a first-class match for the Magpies since season 1892-93, each with biographies and the vast majority with a portrait of the player. Thick
£16.00
The joys and frustrations of supporting Man City in their dark days. Paperback. 8vo. Very good condition.
£6.00
The illustrated story of Ipswich Town Football Club's FA Cup winning campaign of 1978 under Bobby Robson. 8vo. 80pp. Paperback. Covers have been neatly laminated. Good condition.
£20.00
Twelve City greats select the games that meant the most to them. For example, Asa Hartford picks the Manx derby at Maine Road in the 4th round of the 1975 FA Cup; Paul Power choses the 1981 FA Cup
£10.00
An upbeat and illustrated account of Lowestoft Town Football Club's 1992/93 season, formed of transcribed and reproduced press-cuttings. 4to. 33pp. Spiral-bound paperback. Good condition.
£14.00
A look at the history of football in the area just south of Edinburgh. Paperback. 8vo. Very good condition.
£18.00
A chronicle of forty years at Liverpool seen through the eyes of one of the club's greatest servants. Paperback. Large 8vo. 144pp. Good condition.
£5.00
The legendary Liverpool Football Club manager gives his own appraisal of each player, including Dalglish, Hansen, Lawrenson and Grobelaar, in a series of fully illustrated profiles, plus his thoughts on
£10.00
The story of the legendary culture of home-grown bench staff at Liverpool Football Club which produced and supported its managers from the forty years since the reign of Bill Shankly to the appointment
£8.00
Brief profiles, most with portraits, of every player to have played in a first team fixture for the Middlesbrough over a 100-year period. Paperback. 4to. 238pp. Illustrated, mainly portraits. Pictorial
£20.00
An examination of the glittering careers of two Manchester United legends, charting some of the massive changes in English football along the way. 8vo. 288pp. Dust-wrapper. Very good condition.
£7.00
The illustrated story of Leeds United Football Club's one and only victory in the FA Cup, which saw them triumph over Arsenal in the 1972 Wembley final during the illustrious Don Revie era, with the full
£9.00
The definitive illustrated history of how Matt Busby transformed Manchester United Football Club in the post-war period. 8vo. 320pp. Dust-wrapper. Very good condition
£7.00
The story of Manchester United Football Club from the Busby Babes and Munich Air Disaster of 1958 to their European Cup triumph ten years later, featuring hundreds of memorable and rarely seen images. 8vo.
£7.00
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