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Fighting for Football: From Woolwich Arsenal to the Western Front - The Story of Football's First Rebel: Tim Coleman Stood Up for Players' Rights and Became a First World War Hero
 
 
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Fighting for Football: From Woolwich Arsenal to the Western Front - The Story of Football's First Rebel: Tim Coleman Stood Up for Players' Rights and Became a First World War Hero [Hardcover]

George Myserson
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  • Hardcover: 256 pages
  • Publisher: Aurum Press Ltd (25 April 2009)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1845134095
  • ISBN-13: 978-1845134099
  • Product Dimensions: 23.3 x 17.1 x 2.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 124,769 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Long before Rodney Marsh, or Derek Dougan, Tim Coleman invented football’s awkward squad. At the beginning of the twentieth century footballers were poorly paid wage slaves to the stern club owners. But Coleman led the first players’ strike. He was a joker, a card – perhaps also the first ever media-literate footballer who knew the importance of a sparky quote in the right place– but he would not be taken advantage of. He stood up for himself, and for others. Then, in 1914, playing for Nottingham Forest after successful spells with Arsenal and Everton, he joined up with the Footballers’ Battalion, and found himself on the Western Front in the run-up to the Somme. There he won the Military Medal for bravery. But he also participated in some of the most remarkable football matches ever played, when, scratch teams played on improvised pitches and contested the Army Cup – right alongside the trenches and shell holes of the front line. In later life he quietly sank into obscurity, cleaning windows in Kent, his illustrious past unknown to those around him. This is the first biography of one of British football’s most remarkable figures: a virtually unknown individual who nevertheless achieved things beyond the experience and the character of most players.

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I bought this book as a gift for my father, who is a passionate follower and player of the game without being a supporter of any individual team. For this reason I thought he would enjoy a book that focused on the individual rather than being a history of any particular club. He devoured the book and has even convinced me, as a reader of history, to give it a try.
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Fighting for football 8 April 2011
An extremable well written book which gives an insight not only into the life and status of a footballer prior to the 1st World War but also a revealing insight into the role football played in that War. Highly recommended.
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