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Book Description
The book traces their development from Stanley Park to Anfield then on to Goodison. Contains detailed and factual statistics, some long forgotton illustrations and undiscovered match reports unearthed from some unlikely places. Covers their participation in the game before the Football League was formed, during the early League, the Lancashire Cup and the FA Cup in the 19th Century.

A "must read" for all Evertonians interested in the history of the club.

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews   2 of 2 people found the following review helpful: Games & Grounds but who are The Men from the Hill Country?, 3 Jul 2006 By  Andrew Walker "andrewwalker66" (Scotland) - See all my reviews    This book is about the history of Everton Football Club, ostensibly from its formation in 1878 up to 1901, the year of Queen Victoria's death, although it would probably be fair to say it is mainly about the period up to 1891, the year Everton became Champions of England. It is a fairly slim book at 112 pages and there are plenty of illustrations so you could read it from cover to cover in one sitting if you chose to do so. The book is especially good at two things. First, it gives a paragraph to almost every friendly Everton played in their formative years before the Football League existed, taking the reader to every corner of Lancashire and sometimes beyond. Second, the author has had good access to local maps and reproduces the sections covering every park and field Everton played on in that time; at one point, when describing Everton's first opponents he even produces a map showing the location of the church from whose parish the team came. In later chapters, once Everton are a league club, the author only reports games where Everton were visiting a new ground such as Villa Park or Molineux for the first time. Some of the detail is absorbing: football tours of London turn into educational visits (a trip round the armaments factory at Woolwich before taking on the works' team, the Arsenal ...) and the club takes the first team and supporters on a picnic to Formby (except for the first teamers who were playing cricket at the time!) Can you imagine Sir Alex letting Rooney et al engage in a tug-of-war contest in the name of team-building? There are games that finish 15 minutes early because of the fog (and the result stands) and players attacked as they come off of the pitch who are so badly injured they miss the next game. The book also frustrated me in a number of ways. It's called "The Men from the Hill Country" but I do not think when you put this down you will be able to name more than a few of those involved and you certainly won't know much about them as people. There are very quick sketches of a few players but little depth and the selection seemed strange - where were Ross and Chadwick, for example? What about John Angus, the goalkeeper in the championship season, who died before he got his medal? What was an Everton footballer paid and what did they do outside of football? My interest was in the championship winning season and I enjoyed the account of the game on the final day, but no detailed account is given of any of the other 21 matches, there are no pictures and not even a final league table. I was left wondering whether the balance between the friendlies in the early years and league games in the later years could have been altered. In conclusion, if you read this book you will be left in awe of Tony Onslow's love of his football club and his attention to detail. The contemporary sketches of football matches he has unearthed will stick in your mind and justify the price of the book on its own. You will learn something new, even if you think you know about Everton in general or the history of football in this period in particular. And the idiosyncrasy of his choice of material will have you screaming with frustration and begging for him to put pen to paper again and produce a second volume applying his great talents to describing the players of the time, the true men from the Hill Country. "Nice one, Tony, Nice one, son, Nice one, Tony, Let's have a second volume!"  Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? (Report this) › See all customer reviews...		Search Customer Reviews Only search this product's reviews

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