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Lancashire Turf Wars

By Steve Tongue

Lancashire Turf Wars

By Steve Tongue

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Lancashire has had a major role to play in English football from its earliest days to the present. The county's leading clubs were largely responsible for the introduction of professionalism in the 1880s, after Preston North End admitted paying their players, and the world's first Football League was divided between teams from the North West and the Midlands. Preston's "Invincibles" triumphed in that first competition before adding the FA Cup that two different Blackburn clubs had already won--and soon the great clubs of Merseyside and Manchester were winning their first trophies. As the turf wars developed, Blackpool, Bolton Wanderers, Burnley, Bury, and Oldham all made their mark in the top division; clubs such as Rochdale and Wigan fought the good fight in rugby hotbeds; and more recently Fleetwood and Morecambe have carried the name of their towns further afield. This is the story of these great rivals, their triumphs, scandals and tragedies, and the great players who have kept the red rose to the fore at home and abroad.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
352
Release Date:
2018-09-01
Publication Date:
2018-09-29
Publisher:
Pitch Publishing Ltd
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1785314351
ISBN13:
9781785314353
Weight:
384 g
Height:
136 cm
Width:
216 cm
Thickness:
32 cm
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