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Punk Football: The Rise of Fan Ownership in English Football
Jim Keoghan
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Description for Punk Football: The Rise of Fan Ownership in English Football
Paperback. Have you ever thought you could run your football club better than the businessmen in the directors' box? Punk Football tells the inside story of those supporters who have done just that. From non-league FC United of Manchester to the Premier League's Swansea City, meet the fans who made the incredible journey from the terraces to the boardroom. Num Pages: 288 pages, Assorted mono and colour pictures. BIC Classification: 1DBK; WSJA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 138 x 18. Weight in Grams: 320.
Punk Football tells the story of how supporters have made the incredible journey from the terraces to the boardroom. Initially intrigued by the rise of AFC Wimbledon, the supporter-owned club set up after Wimbledon FC's relocation to Milton Keynes, Jim Keoghan was drawn into a world in which ordinary fans have started new clubs, taken a stake in those they once followed and sometimes saved clubs from disappearing altogether. The fan-ownership movement has touched every echelon of the game, challenging the private model that has dominated football for over a century. There have been highs and lows, successes and failures, ... Read more
Punk Football tells the story of how supporters have made the incredible journey from the terraces to the boardroom. Initially intrigued by the rise of AFC Wimbledon, the supporter-owned club set up after Wimbledon FC's relocation to Milton Keynes, Jim Keoghan was drawn into a world in which ordinary fans have started new clubs, taken a stake in those they once followed and sometimes saved clubs from disappearing altogether. The fan-ownership movement has touched every echelon of the game, challenging the private model that has dominated football for over a century. There have been highs and lows, successes and failures, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Pitch Publishing Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Hove, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781909626362
SKU
V9781909626362
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
About Jim Keoghan
Jim Keoghan is a freelance journalist who also blogs for Sabotage Times on his beloved Everton. He's been a committed Blue since the age of five, when his parents informed him that Father Christmas only visits Evertonians and not Kopites. Regardless of the deception, it's a love affair that Jim has never regretted starting.
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