| Up There: North-East, Football, Boom & Bust UK Edition Contributor(s): Walker, Michael (Author) |
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ISBN: 1909245348 ISBN-13: 9781909245341 Publisher: Decoubertin Books OUR PRICE: $9.90 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2017 * Not available - Not in print at this time * |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Sports & Recreation | History - History | Europe - Great Britain - General - Sports & Recreation | Soccer |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 5" W x 7.7" (0.66 lbs) 304 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Featuring a new 2016 update that takes in the two years since the hardback edition, Up There is an examination of football in North-east England, how it came to matter so much and why it matters still despite a formidable lack of success. Featuring exclusive interviews with Niall Quinn, Sir John Hall, Aitor Karanka and Sam Allardyce among many others, Up There looks at the major North-east clubs' modern history and also at the culture, industrial and sporting, which saw the game rise to such prominence in the region. With the local economy altered forever by the removal of shipbuilding and coalmining, Michael Walker asks how the economy and geography of the North-east affects its football clubs and grassroots. In the past a coalmining background provided a torrent of talent, from Bob Paisley to Bobby Charlton, but where is that managerial and playing talent today? Part travelogue, part social history, part sporting investigation, Up There rediscovers and threads together some of the personalities and events that helped define a region. |
Contributor Bio(s): Walker, Michael: - Michael Walker is a freelance reporter based in the North-east. Originally from Belfast, Michael studied at Newcastle University in the mid-1980s and after spells working in London and Manchester, returned to the North-east in 1995. He has been there ever since working for the Guardian, Independent and Daily Mail, while writing a regular Saturday column for the Irish Times. One of those columns became the idea for his book Up There: The North-East, Football, Boom & Bust. His history of football in Ireland, Green Shoots, will be published by deCoubertin Books in 2017. |