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What a Shot!
Derek Hammond
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Description for What a Shot!
Hardcover. Football fans of a certain vintage love Polaroid snaps of crumbling grounds, distant players toiling in mud and fences topped with razor-sharp spikes. These overexposed images of bobble hats and feather cuts, blurred wingers, knitwear, floodlights and inflatables offer an evocative window into a Lost World of Football - from a fans' eye view. Num Pages: 144 pages, colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 3JJPL; 3JJPN; WSJA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 146 x 13. Weight in Grams: 396.
Football fans love nothing more than faded Polaroids of crumbling grounds, distant players toiling in mud and fences topped with razor-sharp spikes - all snapped from the terraces in the belief that the results would prove worthy of the back page when they arrived back from the developers. At least, that's certainly true of fans of a certain vintage. When '70s and '80s snapshots taken from the stands and terraces were posted on the Got, Not Got blog, traffic tripled overnight and floods of snaps were mailed in from all over Britain. The artistic value of the pics is hilariously ... Read more
Football fans love nothing more than faded Polaroids of crumbling grounds, distant players toiling in mud and fences topped with razor-sharp spikes - all snapped from the terraces in the belief that the results would prove worthy of the back page when they arrived back from the developers. At least, that's certainly true of fans of a certain vintage. When '70s and '80s snapshots taken from the stands and terraces were posted on the Got, Not Got blog, traffic tripled overnight and floods of snaps were mailed in from all over Britain. The artistic value of the pics is hilariously ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Pitch Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
128
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
Hove, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781909178748
SKU
V9781909178748
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-3
About Derek Hammond
Derek Hammond has written about football and music for FourFourTwo, club programmes, mirror.co.uk and the NME. Gary Silke is editor of The Fox, one of the original and oldest football fanzines still in existence. The pair have provided football cards for The Onion Bag, BBC1's Match of the Seventies/Eighties and the National Football Museum.
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