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About this book
'What is a club in any case? Not the buildings or the directors or the people who are paid to represent it. It's not the television contracts, get-out clauses, marketing departments or executive boxes. It's the noise, the passion, the feeling of belonging, the pride in your city. It's a small boy clambering up stadium steps for the very first time, gripping his father's hand, gawping at that hallowed stretch of turf beneath him and, without being able to do a thing about it, falling in love.' Sir Bobby Robson, West Bromwich Albion and England Dean Walton had no choice in his football supporting allegiance, he was born in 1960 to 'Baggies'-mad parents. Over the last fifty years Dean has rarely missed a game at The Hawthorns and has followed his beloved Albion all over the world, watching them play in eighteen different countries. Follow Dean's travels through three divisions over five decades. From UEFA Cup joy on a warm Valencia evening to questioning his own sanity on a freezing cold night in Hartlepool. From Wembley success to humiliating relegation in Bath, every emotion is covered. Football is about much more than the match itself. This book will strike a chord with any dedicated supporter.
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British HistoryTable of contents
- Cover
- Foreword by Tony ‘Bomber’ Brown
- Foreword by ‘Super’ Bob Taylor
- Foreword by Adrian Chiles
- 1 - Baggie by Birth
- 2 - Back in the Brummie Road
- 3 - Teenage Rampage
- 4 - Agony at Highbury, Part I
- 5 - Viva Espana!
- 6 - So Near, Yet So Far
- 7 - Rat Trap
- 8 - Hopping Mad in Zurich
- 9 - First Division Mediocrity
- 10 - Agony at Highbury, Part II
- 11 - On the Slide
- 12 - Decline and Relegation
- 13 - From Beachwear to the Arctic Circle
- 14 - Through the Barricades
- 15 - Down, Down with Barmy Bobby
- 16 - Questioning My Own Sanity
- 17 - Ossie’s Going to Wembley
- 18 - The Italian Job, Part I
- 19 - Something Fishy Going On
- 20 - The Italian Job, Part II
- 21 - Coast to coast – Kirkcaldy to Birkenhead
- 22 - Baggies Down Under
- 23 - Wonderful, Wonderful Copenhagen
- 24 - New Millennium, New Hopes
- 25 - Arise, Sir Gary
- 26 - Back in the Big Time (Briefly)
- 27 - The Andy Hunt Tour
- 28 - Vikings and Promotion
- 29 - The Great Escape
- 30 - Sold Your Seats for a Pie and a Pint
- 31 - Boing Boing
- 32 - Thank You, Roy
- 33 - We know What We Are
- 34 - Oh, Vienna
- 35 - Up the Junction
- Picture Section
- Postscript
- Biography
- About The Author
- Acknowledgements