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Underdogs: The Unlikely Story of Football’s First FA Cup Heroes

Underdogs: The Unlikely Story of Football’s First FA Cup Heroes

by KeithDewhurst (Author)

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    Hardcover 2012

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Synopsis

'Fancy! A lot of working chaps beating a lot of gentlemen' 1879, the third round of the FA Cup. A football team from the humble Lancashire cotton town of Darwen, take on Remnants - a Berkshire club of the moneyed and well-connected - and beat them. It is football's first ever giant killing. Their reward is a quarter-final with the mighty Old Etonians. It pitches rulers against ruled, rich against poor, champions against underdogs, old tactics against new, the inventors of the game against the upstarts. It is an encounter that is seen as symbolic and hidden at the heart of the encounter lies the bitterest controversy. Underdogs, is a fascinating story that covers the very birth of football and its development towards the game we recognize today. Storyteller, football connoisseur and historian, Keith Dewhurst, shows how 130 years ago, at its beginning, football was already reflecting the modern game closely - money talks, cheating abounds, and victory is secured whatever the cost.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 320
 Publisher: Yellow Jersey
Published: 01 Mar 2012
ISBN 10: 0224083139
ISBN 13: 9780224083133
Book Overview: The fascinating story of football's origins and the first ever FA Cup giantkilling

Media Reviews
Dewhurst has dug widely and clearly enjoyed the archives.this entire team has the memorial that it richly deserves -- Huw Richards When Saturday Comes Fascinating and entertaining...a social and cultural history of sport, class, British society and identity ... it is another example of the importance of sport in analysing the contemporary world, its passions, its cultures, and its understanding of rules, regulations, competition and fair play -- John Foot History Today An engaging tale mixing social history with what could be called the roots of modern football Press Association
Author Bio
Keith Dewhurst has been a yarn tester in a cotton mill, a reporter for the Manchester Evening Chronicle, and a columnist for the Guardian. Six of his seventeen stage plays have been premiered at the National Theatre, and he is the author of more than twenty television plays, two novels, two movies and a theatrical memoir.