Mud, Sweat and Shears

Tales From the Turf - Life as a Football League Groundsman

Dave Thomas

• Publisher: Pitch Publishing
• eBook ISBN:
  9781785312953
• Year: 2017

Mud, Sweat and Sheers is the story of how a miner became one of football's leading groundsmen. It tells how he met some of the greatest names in the 1970s and 1980s. A unique football book through a groundsman's eyes, it tells the story of what typically went on behind the scenes before football became the multi-million-pound industry it is today.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Our grandfather Roy Oldfield
• 1. Let’s ’av a brew with Roy Oldfield
• 2. Bob Lord makes a brew
• 3. Groundsman Roy finds his diary
• 4. Roy starts work at the Turf
• 5. A grand season, said Roy
• 6. Time for Roy to leave
• 7. Roy returns, and Kindo too: 1977
• 8. A season in the life of a groundsman
• 9. 1978/79 and two games to forget
• 10. A disaster of a season: 1979/80
• 11. Another season in the life of…
• 12. 1981: Goodbye Bob Lord
• 13. 1981/82 and a new wheelbarrow
• 14. 1982/83: A strange kind of season
• 15. Roy’s season with John Bond
• 16. The mess worsens, and relegation
• 17. A club close to folding
• 18. Dangling on the edge
• 19. A grand day out
• 20. All good things come to an end
• 21. Life after Turf Moor
• Postscript
• Photographs