Mister: the men who gave the world the game
(Adult Book)
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Published
London Simon & Schuster UK Ltd, 2016.
Physical Desc
320 pages illustrations 24 cm
Status
City Library - Non-fiction
796.334
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796.334
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Published
London Simon & Schuster UK Ltd, 2016.
Format
Adult Book
Language
English
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From its late-Victorian flowering in the mill towns of the northwest of England, football spread around the world with great speed. It was helped on its way by a series of missionaries who showed the rest of the planet the simple joys of the game. Even now, in many countries, the colloquial word for a football manager is not 'coach' or 'boss' but 'mister', as that is how the early teachers were known, because they had come from the home of the sport to help it develop in new territories. In Rory Smith's book, he looks at the stories of these pioneers of the game, men who left this country to take football across the globe. Sometimes, they had been spurned in their own land, as coaching was often frowned upon in England in those days, where players were starved of the ball during the week to make them hungry for it on matchday.
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