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The Football Battalions – The Elite Players Who Fought in the Great War
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The Football Battalions – The Elite Players Who Fought in the Great War1914. Britain is slowly becoming football obsessed: players are becoming household names, attendance is increasing and George V attends the FA Cup Final in May. Then the war breaks out. In this fascinating work, equal parts footballing and military history, Christopher Evans explores how, once the war began, footballers were put under immense pressure to sign up, resulting in the formation of Football Battalions in England and Scotland. He recounts
Crammed with eccentric sports ephemera
to the utter despair of a relentless losing streak and the pressure that comes with it
Size: 159mm x 241mm – 298 pages
Size: 160mm x 242mm – 330 pages
founded in 1883 by old boys of the Charterhouse and Eton public schools
Martin Jol
As Victorian Britain was gripped by 'the football craze'
Villa were celebrating qualifying for the Champions League for the first time in their history
The autobiography of Mark O'Brien
the history of Wales' premier club side is alive and recorded in this book
• suggest how to organise locally in order to force through change at national level
was the first comprehensive account of his life
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