Football Days: Classic Football Photographs

by Michael Palin (Foreword), Michael Palin (Foreword), Michael Palin (Foreword), Peter Robinson (Photographer), Will Hoon (Collaborator)

• Used

  Hardcover
  2003

  $3.24

  An intimate view of football, this title not only represents a chronological record of the whole football experience, but also brings together all the strands of the game by providing a visual gallery of players, coaches, fans, grounds, personalities, media and politics - not to mention socio-cultural issues. The chapters are divided into key subjects, each representing a distinctive element of the sport, from the football strip to the effect of the media. The book explores how football has changed and developed, including personalities who contributed to the profile of the industry.

• Used

  Paperback
  2005

  $3.24

  Chapter one Strip; The football strip has changed dramatically. Today it is an integral part of the economics of football finance, as this chapter reveals. Culturally the strip is now a costume of leisure and its production and consumption is inextricably linked to issues of manufacture, marketing and branding.