NON-LEAGUE FOOTBALL A ROLLER COASTER RIDE TO BEAT ANY (eBook)

60 years involved in the ups and the downs, and still enjoying the ride!

Micky (Turka) Taylor (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
304 Seiten
Michael Taylor (Verlag)
978-1-9163462-8-4 (ISBN)

Infos

Forget the premiership, forget the championship, forget football leagues 1 and 2 and to an extent, the national league, and forget professional referees. This is the true story of one man's love and involvement playing, managing, and scouting with non-league football, whether it be park football, Saturday, Sunday, F.A. youth representative football and all types of representative football, and good non-league senior clubs. All the fun, the sadness, the happy days, the dramas, the tv debut that lasted for a couple of years, my own football column in a local newspaper for years, and walking out with Surrey F.C. at Wembley. Also the chairmen, the non-league referees, some good, some bad, working hard on ground improvements and receiving no financial reward whatsoever, only the great memories that I wish to share with you in my book and relive my experiences as I believe as a football fan or player you would have at least experienced one, or if not some, of my situations. I am sure that when you start to read it, you will not want to stop, as every page has as near to the truth the thoughts from myself Micky (Turka) Taylor, the good, the bad and sometimes the bloody ugly side. This book is a must for all football fans, from grassroots football to top non-league and just maybe some of the followers of the overpaid, overpriced, premiership clubs and players who might just enjoy my ride of 60 years in the game'.

Inhalt

Dedication

Foreword

Chapter One - How I bought the ticket to ride. 

Chapter Two - Work hard, play hard and rewards will come.

Chapter Three - Senior non-league football - a shock to the system.

Chapter Four - Repairs completed - Whyteleafe and Addiscombe Social, here I come! 1969/74.

Chapter Five - Roller coaster in for repairs again but soon fixed.

Chapter Six - The roller coaster’s ready to ride again. Dad had his Heath United and now I’ve got my own Heath United and a story to tell - five seasons of it!

Chapter Seven - Roller coaster back in service a phone call and a new beginning; Reedham Park F.C., here I come!

Chapter Eight - 1988/89-1992/93 this roller coaster has seen its day; I’m jumping on a new and better one now in the non-league fairground and bigger times ahead in representative football.

Chapter Nine - 1993 – 1998 Surrey County youth F.A. and non-league youth football.

Chapter Ten - Is it a rollercoaster now or a ghost train? My appointment as manager and life with Croydon Athletic 1995/99 and beyond my departure, a circus.

Chapter Eleven - 1999 - 2000 - Life after Croydon Pathetic and the rollercoaster does come off the track but then hits an all-time high as history is made in non-league football.

Chapter Twelve - 2000-2001 Ryman premier league, here we come, but I nd myself getting involved at a non-league club by the sea, which seems appropriate for my roller coaster.

Chapter Thirteen - 2001-2002 the rollercoaster, good old Sussex by the sea, sunshine all

the time, or so I thought.

Chapter Fourteen- 2002/2003 Still in Sussex at Haywards Heath....Three Bridges

or was it a bridge too far?

Chapter Fifteen - 2003 - 2012 the roller coaster stays on track, despite being vandalised.

Chapter Sixteen - 2013-2019: Rollercoaster gets new lease of life and a new lick of

paint.

Chapter Seventeen - Reflections, the teams, and my views and thanks.

Chapter Eighteen - Hold on a minute; the rollercoaster is coming out and going to Spain

2020!

Acknowledgements

 

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.2.2020
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Ballsport
• Schlagworte: Football • non-league football • Professional Football • Rollercoaster
• ISBN-10: 1-9163462-8-6 / 1916346286
• ISBN-13: 978-1-9163462-8-4 / 9781916346284