15th Mar, 2019 10:30 GMT/BST

Books, Maps & Ephemera

 
Lot 147
 

147

FootballThe Book of Football. Amalgamated Press, [1906]. 4to, org. green cloth; pp. 292...

Football
The Book of Football. Amalgamated Press, [1906]. 4to, org. green cloth; pp. 292 (lacking 175-8, without title-page?) photographs and other illus throughout.A fascinating reminder of how much and how little has changed in the world of football. Putting aside the styles of kit and the closure of old grounds, the chapter on football finances and need to explain the offside rule should be immediately familiar to any fan of the game. The most striking differences come in attitude - the idea that Directors should be paid is is rejected utterly in favour of those who are willing to make sacrifices for the game they love. Likewise, for anyone familiar with the presentation of the British fan in the late-Twentieth century the framing of pitch encroachments by fans trying to see as 'high spirits' is surprising. The victims of the Ibrox collapse are rightly presented as such, nothing like the perception of similar tragedies 80 years later. No one though is likely to be surprised at the need for an article about 'The Much-Abused Referee'.

Sold for £75
Estimated at £60 - £100


 

. Boards scuffed at edges with some marking, internally generally clean, lacking pages 175-8, otherwise a very good of a comparatively hard to find work.

 


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