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The inside, in-depth and indiscreet story of a season with Britain's worst football club - East Stirlingshire. The Shire are lucky if all eleven players make it to a game, they have an average home attendance at their dilapidated Firs Park ground of 200 and they ended the 2004/05 season bottom of the Scottish Third Division - for the third consecutive year. Granted access to all areas, Jeff Connor gets into the dressing room, the board room and the dug-out. But, above all, he gets into the spirit of the club. He began the season a scoffing cynic and finished it lost in admiration for one of the dottiest sporting institutions in Britain as the Shire attempted to reach the promised land - Second bottom of the Scottish Third Division. At times funny, sad, heart-warming and embarrassing, as events on and off the pitch unfold, "Pointless" is an unmissable insight into a unique football team.
About the Author
Jeff Connor was born in Manchester and now lives in Edinburgh. He is a freelance sports writer. He has written 12 books, including the definitive story of the Busby Babes (The Lost Babes; Manchester United and the Forgotten Victims of Munich) published by HarperCollins in February 2006, Up and Down Under, an account of the 2001 British Lions tour and two highly-regarded biographies of the mountaineers John Cunningham and Dougal Haston. - This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
The inside, in-depth and indiscreet story of a season with Britain's worst football club - East Stirlingshire. The Shire are lucky if all eleven players make it to a game, they have an average home attendance at their dilapidated Firs Park ground of 200 and they ended the 2004/05 season bottom of the Scottish Third Division - for the third consecutive year. Granted access to all areas, Jeff Connor gets into the dressing room, the board room and the dug-out. But, above all, he gets into the spirit of the club. He began the season a scoffing cynic and finished it lost in admiration for one of the dottiest sporting institutions in Britain as the Shire attempted to reach the promised land - Second bottom of the Scottish Third Division. At times funny, sad, heart-warming and embarrassing, as events on and off the pitch unfold, "Pointless" is an unmissable insight into a unique football team.
About the Author
Jeff Connor was born in Manchester and now lives in Edinburgh. He is a freelance sports writer. He has written 12 books, including the definitive story of the Busby Babes (The Lost Babes; Manchester United and the Forgotten Victims of Munich) published by HarperCollins in February 2006, Up and Down Under, an account of the 2001 British Lions tour and two highly-regarded biographies of the mountaineers John Cunningham and Dougal Haston. - This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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