How much did it originally cost to sign up 'the King', Wayne Carey? Which Carlton player only found out he'd retired when he read it in the papers? What did Buddy Franklin carry with him on the Kokoda Trail? Find out in Favourite Footy Yarns.
Packed full of hilarious (mostly) true stories, fascinating facts, bloopers and stats, this updated edition from Australian sport's master storyteller Ken Piesse will have you laughing out loud. The perfect book for any footy fan, it covers the biggest names in the game - from Barassi, Whitten and Ablett to Riewoldt, Fev and Cripps.
- 352 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub
Favourite Footy Yarns: Expanded and Updated
Table of contents
- Favourite Footy Yarns - Revised and Updated
- Contents
- Foreword by Robert Harvey
- Author’s Introduction
- 1 Amazing and Mostly True
- 2 Bloopers, Gaffes and Pranks
- 3 On the Bush Telegraph
- 4 Goals and Goalmen
- 5 Interviews
- 6 Larrikins and Scallwags
- 7 Laughs
- 8 Legends
- 9 Loves
- 10 Matches
- 11 Memories
- 12 Quotes
- 13 Snippets
- 14 Nicknames
- 15 Stats
- 16 Superstitions
- Acknowledgements
- Bibliography
- Image Section
- About the Author
- Imprint