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Lancashire Turf Wars: A Football History
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Lancashire has had a major role to play in English football from its earliest days to the present. The county’s leading clubs were largely responsible for the introduction of professionalism in the 1880s, after Preston North End admitted paying their players, and the world’s first Football League was divided between teams from the North West and the Midlands. Preston’s ‘Invincibles’ triumphed in that first competition before adding the FA Cup that two different Blackburn clubs had already won – and soon the great clubs of Merseyside and Manchester were winning their first trophies. As the turf wars developed, Blackpool, Bolton Wanderers, Burnley, Bury and Oldham all made their mark in the top division; clubs such as Rochdale and Wigan fought the good fight in rugby hotbeds; and more recently Fleetwood and Morecambe have carried the name of their towns further afield. This is the story of these great rivals, their triumphs, scandals and tragedies, and the great players who have kept the red rose to the fore at home and abroad.
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Additional information
| Publisher | First Edition (29 Sept. 2018), Pitch Publishing Ltd |
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| Language | English |
| Paperback | 352 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 1785314351 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1785314353 |
| Dimensions | 13.72 x 3.05 x 21.59 cm |
by Mara A-W
Then this is top reading, highly recommended!
by Jamie Brogden
I wanted to find out why teams were rivals so I bought this thinking I was going to find why Preston and Blackpool are bitter rivals. This does not tell me about turf wars. So why a good mark. Right, what it does, it takes you through the front door of northern football history and leads you all way round to the present. Well worth a read.
by MJW
Years ago everyone seemed to know the history of other games such as cricket, golf etc but I always got the impression that football only dealt with the present. Well that’s all changed. This book gives the reader a thorough history of all the Lancashire clubs – well the ones that were in the Red Rose county before changes to the boundaries in 1974.
I’ve read Steve Tongue’s book on London clubs which is also very good – I hate to think how much research he has to put in to tackle such a vast project but it’s clearly been well worth it. A very enjoyable and informative read so good in fact I’ve written a review which I don’t normally do.