The Origins of Wolverhampton Wanderers

The Origins of Wolverhampton Wanderers
Author: Patrick Quirke
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Total Pages: 186
Release: 2013-07-15
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1445615576

For the first time in detail, the story of the formation of the Wolverhampton Wanderers FC.

The Legends of Wolves

The Legends of Wolves
Author: Tony Matthews
Publisher: Breedon Books Publishing
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2006
Genre: Soccer players
ISBN: 9781859835180

Wolverhampton Wanderers have had mixed fortunes since they formed as St Luke's side in 1877, going on to become founder members of the Football League in 1888. With illustrations throughout, this title is a tribute to 100 of the club's outstanding players.

Wolves' Greatest Games

Wolves' Greatest Games
Author: John Hendley
Publisher: eBook Partnership
Total Pages: 430
Release: 2012-11-07
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1909178268

As one of the twelve pioneers of English football in 1888, Wolverhampton Wanderers have experienced all four tiers of the game and the club has written its name in the history books by winning every domestic honour. Wanderers became the first club to be champions of all four divisions and have also won FA Cup and League Cup finals. In the 1950s, floodlit contests against the greatest teams from around the world pulled in huge crowds and brought about the birth of European competition. Wolves' Greatest Games looks back at one hundred of the greatest games, from 1888 right through to the present day.Key features- Features one hundred of Wolverhampton Wanderers' most memorable games from across the club's history- Details the effect of the club's great managers and finest players on those games- Includes contemporary and historic images from these legendary matches- The book is fully endorsed by the club- Written by veteran football writer and Wolves programme editor John Hendley, author of Wolves On This Day and Wolves Miscellany

Dances With Wolves

Dances With Wolves
Author: John Maguire
Publisher: John Maguire
Total Pages:
Release:
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN:

Welcome to this series of Short Talking Books. This volume focuses on Wolves winning of the 1974 Football League Cup. The book includes short profiles of the team and others who played a part in their biggest success. It is written in a conversational question and answer format. ‘The Talking Manager’s’ series is designed as a ‘on the go’ travel book. The print size offers an easier read for small devices like mobile phones. Look for others in the series.

Viva Nuno

Viva Nuno
Author: Michael Petalengro
Publisher:
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2018-06-23
Genre:
ISBN: 9781983251849

What happens when the football team you support suddenly gains new owners and new ideas? Get a Football Coach that seems more like a Philosopher than a footballer? What happens when your team start playing beautiful football? Get promoted to the Premier League? What happens when they start doing everything right but you, the doughnut who goes every week to watch them has to deal with the dichotomy of your team doing well while you are eating Fray Bentos pies and looking for bargains in Poundland? Enjoy the tales and the madness from Sunderland to Southampton. From the top of a Welsh Mountain to the cloying atmosphere of London. But more importantly find out how a Philosopher from a small island in the Atlantic came to the Midlands of England to stamp a philosophy and a movement on a team that held glory as a distant monochrome memory and in his own way brought a whole City to it's feet to sing his name. 'Viva Nuno' is a strange book. Metaphysics, Psychogeography, friends dealing with Heroin withdrawal, broken legs, broken hearts. There is love, beautiful football, tears, anger, near death experiences. This book runs through a whole gamut of emotive experiences and was written 'on the spot' and barely changed from notes written on the back of programmes and on phones. It's a ride of a lifetime that runs from the lowest points of this record breaking Wolves season to the very highest. Sometimes the confusion is evident in the prose but that confusion is all part and parcel of the experience and the insanity. "We are the media now.....fuck, my biscuit has fell in my tea. Yeah the disinformation, the fake articles, the men in tight suits and tighter expense accounts, the back slappers, the sidlers, idlers, the useless dregs of the old order...picking out a floating half a biscuit in hot tea, shoving it in your face while your fingers burn. Got it all out too. Kwan. Belief. Just say No to Fake Football journalism."My advice is to settle down and be open to this particular experience. Make a cup of tea and grab a packet of biscuits. Find out what experiences we have shared as football fans. This book will make you cry, laugh, shout, throw stuff. But more importantly it will show you how football affects supporters in their day to day lives. This book is for us and for every other football supporter that has lost hope. Never forget...'Out of Darkness Cometh Light'

Wolves Match of My Life

Wolves Match of My Life
Author: Simon Lowe
Publisher: eBook Partnership
Total Pages: 185
Release: 2012-10-13
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1909178195

Twelve Wolves legends tell the stories behind their favourite games from their Molineux careers. The selected games include the 1949 and 1960 FA Cup and the 1974 and 1980 League Cup Finals, the famous floodlit friendlies against Honved and Real Madrid and tussles with local rivals West Bromich Albion. Bill Slater and John Richards select their greatest matches in a Wolves shirt, while Steve Bull recalls his best performance, after a night on the tiles! Ron Flowers, Sammy Smyth and the late Norman Deeley also feature in a book with a foreword by Sir Jack Hayward. Wolves Match of My Life will delight fans of all ages as they relive magic moments through the eyes of the men who made them happen.Key features- Part of the popular and successful Match of My Life series which features a number of football clubs- Features twelve of Wolves' greatest names, reflecting on their most memorable match for the club- Also details those players' cherished memories from their time with the club, the players they played with and the managers they served- Includes contemporary and historic images from the legendary matches covered- Written by respected football writer Simon Lowe; a well-known Midlands-based football historian and author, with over 15 published books to his name

Football: From England to the World

Football: From England to the World
Author: Dolores Martinez
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2013-10-31
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1317967844

This book is a fascinating journey through a series of scholarly articles. The journey begins by tracing one of the most significant stories in the popularization of Association Football. In the next leg of the journey it charts the diverse and changing face of the modern British game. It then moves on to the global spread of the game from England and its domestication and appropriation in its new homes across the planet. It also investigates the exchanges which are increasingly taking place between these new homes of football. In the concluding pieces football’s global experience is compared with the attempts at globalizing baseball and drawing out the larger patterns that inform football’s global experience. This book was published as a special issue in Soccer and Society.

Vain Games of No Value?

Vain Games of No Value?
Author: Terry Morris
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 1517
Release: 2016-03-03
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1504998529

It should be unthinkable to write the social history of Britain from the late nineteenth century onwards without reference to association football. Yet by the time that the Football Association celebrated its centenary year in 1963, no serious academic analysis had been undertaken of the sport and of the various channels by which it had developed in different parts of the country. By the time that historians began to tackle that task, its complexity and diversity were such that it could only be undertaken in installments. Studies emerged that focused upon individual clubs and specific regions or which were limited to narrow time scales. No work examined the long century from the 1860s to the 1970s in full. This book analyses the growth of British football in all its aspectsthe developments of the football crowd, the status of the professional player, womens football, the difficult survival of amateurism, to mention but a few. It also highlights the factors that contributed to diverse developmental paths in different parts of the country. The author has used the widest range of source materials to achieve a broader overview of the games history than has previously been attempted.