Red Men: Liverpool Football Club: The Biography

In researching the first book to cover the complete history of Liverpool FC using a linear narrative, the author was given access to the club's original minute books

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John Williams explores the origins and divisive politics of soccer in the city of Liverpool and profiles the key men behind the emergence of the club and its early successes in this unique and exhaustively researched history of Liverpool Football Club. This is the definitive history of a remarkable club from its formation in 1892 to the present day, told in the wider context of the social and cultural development of the city of Liverpool and its people.

Audience
adult
Length
long · 432 pages

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