4 Ergebnisse.

POLITICAL SCIENCE / General

This is a book about football. It's about unconditional love for a club, even when it doesn't always seem to love you back.Anthony Clavane loves Leeds - certainly the football club, but also the city, and the tribes that make it. But he no less loves the rarely-glimpsed back-streets of his youth,

Ever since the children of penniless immigrants caught the train from Whitechapel to White Hart Lane - to be greeted with the refrain: 'Does Your Rabbi Know You're Here?' - this forgotten tribe have helped to shape the Beautiful Game. In telling the fascinating lives of these largely unsung trailblazers, Clavane uncovers a hidden history of Jewish involvement in English football. From Louis Bookman, the first Jew to play in England's top divis...

Subtitled, "Leeds United, The Team That Disappeared". Looks at the spectacular rise and fall of the team, which has become a modern parable for greed and a cautionary tale for the over-ambitious.