Grandad, What Was Football Like in the 1970s?

Richard Crooks

• Publisher: Pitch Publishing Ltd
• eBook ISBN:
  9781785313363
• Year: 2017

Grandson Charlie attending a Championship game at Hillsborough prompts Richard Crooks to think about football and what it was really like in the 1970s. The game, and all that goes with it—in essence, what following football was all about in the 1970s.  Grandad, What Was Football Like in the 1970s? will rekindle those memories of a decade of change.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Dedication
• Acknowledgements
• Preface
• Foreword
• 1 Charlie, the Owls and the Bees
• 2 Rivalry and the Divide Widens
• 3 Disappointment at School
• 4 On the Turnstiles
• 5 Five Semis in a Row
• 6 Go East Young Man
• 7 And Now Essex
• 8 The Roller Coaster: Down, Down it Goes, and Then
• 9 Getting to the Game
• 10 Grounds
• 11 At the Grounds
• 12 The Spectre Grown
• 13 Racism
• 14 Programmes
• 15 Players
• 16 Alleged Bribery, Illegal Payments and More
• 17 George Best
• 18 Showmen, Mavericks or Both?
• 19 Control of the Game and Competitions
• 20 Clubs and the League Competition
• 21 FA Cup
• 22 And the League Cup
• 23 New Competitions
• 24 Commercially
• 25 Football in Scotland
• 26 Europe, Further Afield and More
• 27 World Cup
• 28 International Games
• 29 Managers
• 30 Referees
• 31 Reporting the Game
• 32 Football Pools, Competitions and Lotteries
• 33 It Happened in the Seventies
• Afterword
• Postscript: A Darker Side
• Appendix 1 – Football League Tables
• Appendix 2 – FA Cup Finals
• Appendix 3 – Football League Cup Finals
• Appendix 4 – Football League Attendances
• Appendix 5 – Footballer of the Year
• Appendix 6 – European Footballer of the Year and Ballon D’Or
• Bibliography
• Photographs