The Bromley Boys

Author : Dave Roberts
Publisher : Portico
ISBN 13 : 1909396079
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Bromley Boys written by Dave Roberts and published by Portico. This book was released on 2012-11-30 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book that inspired the major motion picture 'I loved it ... extremely funny. A must-read for anyone who loves football.' Peter Crouch In the late 1960s, in the warm glow of England winning the World Cup, Dave Roberts, like most teenage boys his age, was football mad. There was just one difference: rather than supporting the likes of Arsenal or Manchester United, Dave’s team of choice was the ever so slightly less glamorous Bromley Football Club – one of the last genuinely amateur football teams left, fighting for survival in the lowest non-league division. This book is the story of Bromley’s worst ever season. It is a funny and heart-warming tale of football at the very bottom: Dave turns up to each match with his football boots in his bag, just in case the team are a player short; the crowd is always announced as 400 as no-one can be bothered to count; the team ship so many goals that in one match, the taunting opposition fans actually lose count of the score. It’s easy being a football fan when your team are always winning. The Bromley Boys is the touching true story about supporting a club through thin and even thinner: proof that the more your team may lose on the pitch, the more there is to gain on the terraces.

Author : Dave Roberts
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1409045188
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 32 Programmes written by Dave Roberts and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-08-04 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Dave Roberts relocates to the USA, his wife informs him that they can only take what is 'absolutely essential'. Packing his collection of football programmes (1,134 of them - football fans are sticklers for statistics), Dave is aghast to be informed that the programmes do not fall into that category. He must whittle down his treasured archive to only what will fit inside a Tupperware container the size of a Dan Brown hardback. 32 Programmes tells the story of how Dave made the selection of his most important programmes, and how the process brought back a flood of nostalgia for simpler times. As the sights, sounds and smells of those 1,134 football matches return, the choices Dave makes reflect the twists and turns that life takes. Finally, with just hours to go before the flight, the container is full to the brim. One more programme will be added to the collection - one that Dave never thought he would see and which means more to him than any other. 32 Programmes is the story of youthful football obsession, crushes on disinterested girls, rubbish jobs and trying to impress skinheads. But most of all, it is the story of a man's life and loves, of family, friends and football.

Author : Dave Roberts
Publisher : Unbound Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789650569
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Long, Long Road to Wembley written by Dave Roberts and published by Unbound Publishing. This book was released on 2019-08-22 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Every football fan will enjoy this” – John Cross, Daily Mirror “Beautifully written. A book to lift the spirits.” – Ian Ladyman, Daily Mail “A heart-rending, life-affirming joy” – Charlie Connelly, bestselling author of Attention All Shipping “Reminds us what the game is really all about” – Miguel Delaney, Independent "A life-affirming tale of never losing faith in your team." – Adam Hurrey, Daily Telegraph In 1968, fourteen-year-old Dave Roberts had a dream – to see the team he’d recently begun supporting, Bromley, play at Wembley. The trouble was that Bromley were rubbish, and when they spent the following decades far away from the pinnacle of non-league football, the dream seemed unreasonably ambitious. But he never gave up. After all, Bromley had been there before – the proof was in the black-and-white pictures of the club’s 1949 Amateur Cup triumph which hung on the wall of the tea hut at Hayes Lane, and which Dave stared at longingly. It was enough to keep that dream alive, as the rest – fortune, success and marrying Olivia Newton-John – fell by the wayside. But after fifty years of never losing faith despite constant disappointment, a favourable draw in the FA Trophy gave Bromley the chance to finally make Dave’s dream come true...

Author : Bertie Marshall
Publisher : SAF Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9780946719938
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Berlin Bromley written by Bertie Marshall and published by SAF Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2006 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revealing punk memoir from a member of the notorious Bromley Contingent. Bertie 'Berlin' Bromley cuts to the core of the 1976/77 punk sensibility, recounting his own adventures as a ubiquitous scenester and rent boy. The Bromley Contingent included Siouxsie Sioux, Steve Severin, Billy Idol and Jordan. Marshall, as a pivotal member of the Contingent, views the scene and its stars with the intimate eye of an insider, offering a vivid picture of the most important British music movement in the 20th century.

Author : Nick Bromley
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 0763661635
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Open Very Carefully written by Nick Bromley and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The reading of a story is interrupted by a crocodile falling into the book.

Author : Dave Roberts
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448154200
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sad Men written by Dave Roberts and published by Random House. This book was released on 2014-03-27 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All Dave Roberts ever wanted to do (apart from collect football programmes) was to work in advertising. More specifically, to work for the world's best advertising agency, Saatchi and Saatchi. There was just one problem. Even when he managed to persuade someone to employ him, Dave's copywriting assignments were mainly for second hand car dealers and double glazing companies. And Leeds, Manchester and, bizarrely, New Zealand were a long way from Charlotte Street and Madison Avenue. This was the world of the Sad Men. In his sparkling new memoir, Dave tells the story of a life shaped by his love of adverts, from seeing the PG Tips chimps at the age of three to writing infamous ads such as the Westpac Rap and having David Jason plug a family restaurant. Bursting with brilliant ideas - and some pretty daft ones - it is the cautionary tale of a quest for advertising glory... and not quite ever getting there.

Author : Victoria L. Bromley
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442605006
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Feminisms Matter written by Victoria L. Bromley and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feminisms Matter confronts the major reasons people offer for not being feminists by breaking apart stereotypes of feminists, unraveling myths about women's history, and challenging assumptions about feminists and feminisms.

Author : Nicole Braddock Bromley
Publisher : Moody Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781575673356
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Breathe written by Nicole Braddock Bromley and published by Moody Publishers. This book was released on 2009-05-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A least one out of every three women and one out of every six men have experienced some form of sexual abuse. Regardless of the circumstances of the violation, every survivor can attest that it will impact relationships with parents, friends, spouses, children, and God. Sexual abuse survivors are often left feeling isolated and without anyone to trust. But it does not have to be this way. Nicole Braddock Bromley understands the fears and anxieties victims face as they seek to build healthy relationships after sexual abuse. As a survivor herself, Nicole offers readers the power and hope necessary to share their story, build intimacy, and develop healthy communication in all their relationships. Breathe also serves as a helpful tool for those in relationship with an abuse survivor by providing guidance, confidence, and encouragement as they seek to help and support.

Author : Dave Roberts
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1473540666
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Home and Away written by Dave Roberts and published by Random House. This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dave Roberts was, for once, almost lost for words as the news sank in. Perennial underachievers Bromley, in the vertigo-inducing fifth tier of English football? It was the greatest achievement in the club's 130-year history and, by extraordinary coincidence, Dave had decided to spend the next 12 months in the UK, after an absence of 35 years, deciding whether he and his wife Liz could live there. And what better way to explore modern day Blighty than by following a roadmap based on the fixtures in the Vanarama National League? It was like the ultimate package holiday; well, for Dave at least. Home and Away takes Dave - and occasionally Liz too - the length and breadth of the land on a journey of discovery, with Bromley games thrown in. So from the White Cliffs of Dover and the English Riviera (Torquay) through the timeless charm of the Cotswolds (Forest Green, Cheltenham) to towns steeped in history (Lincoln, Chester), faded seaside resorts (Southport, Barrow) and fallen giants of the game (Grimsby, Wrexham, Tranmere - OK, pushing it there), the season unfolds, and the ultimate 'home or away' decision approaches. Against the odds, the season also proves not to be full of the endless disappointments football fans are conditioned to expect. Unfancied Bromley are on a mission, they have a man called Moses up front, and the promised land of the Football League might not be beyond their capabilities...

Author : Bert Fegg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780413327406
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bert Fegg's Nasty Book for Boys and Girls written by Bert Fegg and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: