Vain Games of No Value?: A Social History of Association Football in Britain During Its First Long Century
About this ebook
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.
About the author
Terry Morris only misspent half of his youth, dividing his time between the calm of his study and the bedlam of the football terraces. Graduating in history from Oxford University, he combined his two loves in a teaching career, spent entirely at University College School, in Northwest London, where he served successively as head of history and as deputy headmaster. He is the author of a range of textbooks on the sixteenth, the nineteenth, and the twentieth centuries.
