Mud, Sweat and Shears
eBook - ePub

Mud, Sweat and Shears

Tales From the Turf - Life as a Football League Groundsman

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  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Mud, Sweat and Shears

Tales From the Turf - Life as a Football League Groundsman

About this book

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.

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Information

Publisher
Pitch Publishing Ltd
Year
2017
eBook ISBN
9781785312953
Edition
0

Table of contents

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