Ghosts of Cathkin Park (eBook)

Michael McEwan (Autor)

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2021
Birlinn Ltd (Verlag)
9781788853149 (ISBN)

Infos

The summer of 1967 was Scottish football's finest hour. Celtic won the European Cup. Rangers reached the final of the European Cup Winners' Cup. Kilmarnock got to the semis of the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup. Scotland defeated world champions England at Wembley. It was the best of times. With one exception. Third Lanark Athletic Club, one of the country's oldest and most successful football teams, a founder member of the Scottish Football Association, and to date one of only four teams to defeat both Rangers and Celtic in the Scottish Cup Final, played its final game. And hardly anybody seemed to notice. Why?Michael McEwan brings rich archival research together with interviews with the key surviving players in the Third Lanark squad from that final season, as well as opposition players and other relevant figures from the era. Over 50 years on, the demise of Third Lanark remains one of Scottish football's darkest hours and, by ludicrous coincidence, it occurred in the midst of one of its brightest.

Autor

Michael McEwan is a journalist from Glasgow. He is the Assistant Editor of PSP Media Group's portfolio of sports titles, which include Bunkered, Scotland's highest circulating golf magazine. He is a former winner of both the RBS Young Sportswriter of the Year and Evening Times Young Football Journalist of the Year awards and the author of Running the Smoke: 26 First-Hand Accounts of Running the London Marathon.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.9.2021
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sport ► Ballsport ► Fußball
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
• Themenwelt: Weitere Fachgebiete ► Sportwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: 1967 • Anecdotes • Anniversary • BBC • beautifully written • boks for christmas • Book Of The Year • books for dads • books on football • caithkin • Celtic • City of Glasgow • Club • compelling • engaging • essential reading • Europe • European Super League • evocative • fascinating • football gift • Football History • forgotten • Forgotten Clubs • Forgotten History • forgotten stories • Glasgow • Graham Spiers • hidden gem • History of sport • Hugh MacDonald • Interviews • Lanark • Lanarkshire • lessons • McEwan • Michael • Mismanagement • must-read • narrative non-fiction • partick • past and present • Premiership • Queens • Rangers • scandal • Scotland on Sunday • Scotland's Lost Clubs • Scottish • Scottish Football • Scottish History • SPL • Sport History • third lanark • third lanark athletic • Tom English • what to get dad for christmas • wonderful
• ISBN-13: 9781788853149 / 9781788853149