Death Of A Football Club

Author : Neal Horgan
Publisher : Neal Horgan T/a Sportsproview
ISBN 13 : 0993062245
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death of a Football Club? written by Neal Horgan and published by Neal Horgan T/a Sportsproview. This book was released on 2014-10-25 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When private equity fund Arkaga suddenly remove funding from Cork City FC, author Neal Horgan and his fellow players are caught completely unawares. ...the radio announces, “Cork City FC is looking to go into examinership, with reported debts of up to €800,000.” I park my car and walk into the dressing room. As usual, Mick Devine, the club’s number one goalkeeper for the past eight or nine years, is also early. He’s sitting alone on the uncomfortable, two-plank, low wooden benches that seem to encircle most dressing rooms. I tell him the news. “For f***’s sake,” he says, dropping his newspaper. He stares up at me blankly. As various interested parties emerge to take over the club, the players don't know who or what to believe. ...I enter the dressing room to find the boys discussing the current situation. Gamble says, “This is the same b****cks again. I need to know.” I tell them the Gaffer’s going to talk to us about it, at which point we get a call to come out onto the pitch. “Well, lads, here’s what I know. Tom Coughlan is going to take over the club, and the rumour that he wasn’t was only a smokescreen.” Enter the dressing room. Walk down the tunnel with the players. Step onto the pitch and into the noise of the crowd. Can the players and fans unite to keep the club alive? Find out by exploring, 'Death of a Football Club?' today!

Author : Stephen Rea
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1510715096
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Finn McCool's Football Club written by Stephen Rea and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-06-27 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2004, Belfast-born Stephen Rea moved to New Orleans, a city where "football" means something entirely different than what it does back home. After struggling to find a place to watch European soccer games, Rea discovered Finn McCool's pub and its mixed clientele of good-humored European ex-pats, charismatic New Orleanians, and assorted matchless personalities. Before long he was playing on the pub's motley over-thirty-five fledgling soccer team. Gathered at the bar on August 27, 2005, members of the team were discussing their upcoming match, untroubled by the impending storm and unknowing that their city and team would nearly be obliterated by Hurricane Katrina in a matter of hours. Days later, the lucky among them were scattered across the country; the others struggled to survive as they awaited rescue in New Orleans. With clarity and compassion, Rea examines the disaster as he profiles the experiences of his teammates and their efforts to resurrect the team and pub that had become so central in all of their lives. A gripping and moving memoir about an unusual pub team and a devastating natural disaster, Finn McCool’s Football Club is a celebration of ex-pats and pubs, soccer and sportsmanship, and the strength it takes to rebuild a team, a city, and a life.

Author : Russel Holmesby
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781743796580
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Death of Fitzroy Football Club written by Russel Holmesby and published by . This book was released on 2020-04 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Death of Fitzroy Football Club is an oral history, outlining the reasons why Fitzroy FC, one of the founding clubs of the VFL in 1896, lost its way and eventually was merged with the Brisbane Bears. The book covers the spread of years from the seventies, through a period when the club was strong on the field in the early eighties, to the club's death, at the end of the 1996 season. Fitzroy FC never had a chance when the VFL moved into the professional era. Despite its heritage, despite some of its champion players and coaches, it never had the financial wherewithal to survive. The beginning of the end can be traced to the seventies, when finances became tight, and the club's best players had to be traded for cash. The author has curated contemporaneous interviews from Inside Football magazine and other publications, together with interviews with those intimately involved in the club's final days, including the AFL's CEO, Ross Oakley, who oversaw the club's final merge with the Brisbane Bears. The book describes the emotional fallout that saw families split, and supporters discarding their relationship with the AFL game.

Author : Russell Holmesby
Publisher : Slattery Media Group
ISBN 13 : 9780958528658
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Death of Fitzroy written by Russell Holmesby and published by Slattery Media Group. This book was released on 2019-07-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Stephen Rea
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781455604241
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Finn McCool's Football Club written by Stephen Rea and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 2010-09-23 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this captivating debut, Belfast native Stephen Rea crafts a story of sportsmanship and strength built around an unusual pub soccer team in the heart of New Orleans. Set against the dark backdrop of Hurricane Katrina, this luminous and infinitely inviting memoir traces the affecting stories of Rea and his hilarious and dynamic friends and teammates. Comprised primarily of ex-pats over the age of 35, Finn McCool's Football Club boasts a dynamic mix of idiosyncratic personalities. From Macca, the team's Scottish coach and a hard-drinking ex-professional player, to its outspoken South African landscape gardener/striker Benji, each character comes vibrantly to life in Rea's fresh and frank prose. Hilarious moments and poignant reflections shine with equal intensity throughout this multifarious work, which captures the individual experiences of the Finn's players in the wake of Katrina. A literary memoir, soccer story, and tale of survival and resolve, this work is an indefatigable tribute to a city and its residents who determined to play on after their lives were all but washed away.

Author : Joe Gorman
Publisher : Univ. of Queensland Press
ISBN 13 : 0702259268
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death and Life of Australian Soccer written by Joe Gorman and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2017-07-26 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Death and Life of Australian Soccer, journalist and historian Joe Gorman explores the rise and fall of Australia's first national football competition and shows how soccer came to practice and embody multiculturalism long before it became government policy. Drawing on archival research and interviews with players, supporters and club officials, he tells the incredible and oft-unknown stories of Australian soccer. The Death and Life of Australian Soccer is a fascinating and timely account of the first Australian sport to truly galvanize every ethnic, regional, metropolitan, gender and political group across the country. It examines the myths and legends of Australian sport and offers new ways of understanding the great changes that shaped the nation. This is more than a book about soccer – it is the riveting story of Australia's national identity.

Author : Mark Maske
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9781594201417
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book War Without Death written by Mark Maske and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2007 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A behind-the-scenes account of the on- and off-field competition between the New York Giants, the Washington Redskins, the Philadelphia Eagles, and the Dallas Cowboys, citing such influences as personality conflicts and sports fans.

Author : Caroline Elwood-Stokes
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0244560072
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book FOOTBALL SUICIDES: The deaths that should never have happened written by Caroline Elwood-Stokes and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Trevor Gyss
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1445791641
Total Pages : 101 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bankers Football Club: A Short and Tragic History written by Trevor Gyss and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bankers Football Club was formed in 1877 for Adelaide bank employees, and was one of the founding members of the South Australian Football Association. Includes player list and statistics.

Author : Neal Horgan
Publisher : Sportsproview
ISBN 13 : 9780993062209
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death of a Football Club? written by Neal Horgan and published by Sportsproview. This book was released on 2014-10-31 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In August 2008 Cork City FC found itself in financial difficulties that threatened the club's very existence. In this book, Neal Horgan, a professional footballer with the club, and with the benefit of this unique viewpoint, presents his account of the drama as it unfolded. The sudden removal of financial support by the previous backers, the take-over of the club by a brand new chairman and the success of the players in winning the All-Ireland competition, 'the Setanta Cup, ' are all described in a dramatic period for the club.