For Club and Country
Welsh Football Greats
Editor(s) Peter Stead,Huw Richards
Language: English
Genre(s): Biography, Wales Studies
- October 2000 · 240 pages
- · Hardback - 9780708316245
A team of distinguished authors highlight and evoke the genius of Welsh football stars and place them in the context of the changing pattern of the game in Britain and internationally.
A timely reminder of the marvellous roles Welsh heroes have played in the history of football; and of how prominently football stands in the country of their birth. A book to stir the blood.
Billy Meredith - John Harding; Leigh Roose - Geraint H. Jenkins; Fred Keenor - Martyn Johnes; Jack Fowler - Huw Bowen; Ivor Allchurch - Huw Richards; Trevor Ford - Peter Stead; John Charles - Rob Hughes; the Welsh at Arsenal - Kenneth O. Morgan; Cliff Terry and the Spurs double - Peter Stead; Mike England - Aled Eirug; Terry Yorath - Barrie Morgan; John Toschak - Huw Richards; Ian Rush - John Williams; Mark Hughes - Rob Humphreys; Neville Southall - Rob Steen; Ryan Giggs - David Eastwood; the future - Huw Richards.
Author(s): Peter Stead
Peter Stead is a writer and broadcaster and an external professor at the University of Glamorgan. Gareth Williams, Centre for Modern and Contemporary Wales, University of Glamorgan.Author(s): Huw Richards
Peter Stead is a writer, broadcaster and historian of popular culture. Huw Richards is the sports correspondent for the International Herald Tribune and Financial Times.