The Football Factory Floor

Name: The Football Factory Floor
Brand: Independently Published
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By Gigi Romano

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From soot-covered streets to floodlit stadiums, The Football Factory Floor tells the story of how ordinary men and women forged the world's greatest sport. Born amid the roar of machinery and the rhythm of industrial life, football was never merely a game-it was an act of defiance, identity, and community. This sweeping history traces the sport's journey from chaotic medieval scrambles to the codified contests of the factory age, from the terraces of coal towns to the billion-pound pitches of the modern Premier League.
In vivid narrative detail, the book reveals how Britain's working class gave football its soul. The miners, mill workers, dockers, and engineers who shaped its clubs and culture made the sport a reflection of their lives: disciplined yet expressive, communal yet fiercely loyal. From professionalism's northern rebellion to the rise of the terraces, from wartime resilience to postwar pride, every generation remade the game in its own image.
The Football Factory Floor is both a social history and a tribute-a recognition that the world's most popular sport was built not in palaces or universities, but in the workshops and neighborhoods of industrial Britain. It is a story of how labor, loyalty, and laughter on the factory floor became a global language still spoken wherever a ball is kicked.

Product details

Binding:: Paperback
Number of Pages:: 308
Release Date:: 2025-11-13
Publication Date:: 2025-11-13
Publisher:: Independently Published
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 1923625934
ISBN13:: 9781923625938
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:: [email protected]
Weight:: 449 g
Height:: 152 cm
Width:: 229 cm
Thickness:: 17 cm

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