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The Overcoat Men
- How Two Unsung Heroes Thwarted a Secret Plan to Kill Off a Football Club
Engelsk Paperback
The Overcoat Men
- How Two Unsung Heroes Thwarted a Secret Plan to Kill Off a Football Club
Engelsk Paperback

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The story of two men who almost single-handedly saved their football club from extinction. In the early 80s David Kilpatrick and Graham Morris spied architects'' plans to turn Spotland, the home of their beloved, beleaguered Rochdale AFC, into a housing estate. They set about saving the club but first had to take on the alleged ''enemy within''. They worked tirelessly, persuading companies to write off debts while securing loans and donations, a tricky proposition when your club is bottom of the Football League. Meanwhile, the town of Rochdale was on its knees, the last of the cotton mills closing down. The limit of most fans'' investment in their club is routinely the price of a season ticket. Directors often risk their houses and businesses, sometimes forfeiting marriages, families and their health in the name of their club. People such as Kilpatrick and Morris - moderately wealthy local businessmen - who serve on football club boards are the unseen, unsung heroes of football, even in the modern age.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
256
ISBN-13:
9781785315251
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1785315250
Udg. Dato:
12 aug 2019
Længde:
19mm
Bredde:
215mm
Højde:
140mm
Forlag:
Pitch Publishing Ltd
Oplagsdato:
12 aug 2019
Forfatter(e):
Books from the same author
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