Leeds United - From Darkness into White
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2008
Mainstream Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-84596-393-4 (ISBN)
Mainstream Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-84596-393-4 (ISBN)
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The 2007-08 season for Leeds United Football Club will have been anything but regular. At the end of the previous season, one of England's most famous football clubs was relegated to what is in effect the Third Division. This book presents a picture of life at Leeds United as they struggle for redemption.
The 2007-08 season for Leeds United Football Club will have been anything but regular. At the end of the previous season, one of England's most famous football clubs was relegated to what is in effect the Third Division. Still stricken with mountains of debt accumulated under an earlier regime, the club was put into administration, then hit with a 15-point penalty for the coming season due to alleged financial irregularities. With a young manager on board and a squad of players made up of trainees, reserves and cheap buy-ins or free transfers, the future looked bleak for a club that only five years ago was challenging for the Premiership and the Champions League. But can dreams come true for their long-suffering and fiercely loyal fans?Thus far Leeds have won more games than any other team in League One and look more than likely to gain promotion at the first attempt. The club is on a roller-coaster ride to gain back its self-respect and an appetite for further glories in 2008 - so will the story run to a happy ending? "Yorkshire Evening Post" journalist Phil Hay has followed the team since the pre-season friendlies last summer and through their league and cup matches this season.
He has interviewed players, coaching staff, board members and fans to get a true warts-and-all picture of life at Leeds United as they struggle for redemption. This is as dramatic a story of football as you will ever read.
The 2007-08 season for Leeds United Football Club will have been anything but regular. At the end of the previous season, one of England's most famous football clubs was relegated to what is in effect the Third Division. Still stricken with mountains of debt accumulated under an earlier regime, the club was put into administration, then hit with a 15-point penalty for the coming season due to alleged financial irregularities. With a young manager on board and a squad of players made up of trainees, reserves and cheap buy-ins or free transfers, the future looked bleak for a club that only five years ago was challenging for the Premiership and the Champions League. But can dreams come true for their long-suffering and fiercely loyal fans?Thus far Leeds have won more games than any other team in League One and look more than likely to gain promotion at the first attempt. The club is on a roller-coaster ride to gain back its self-respect and an appetite for further glories in 2008 - so will the story run to a happy ending? "Yorkshire Evening Post" journalist Phil Hay has followed the team since the pre-season friendlies last summer and through their league and cup matches this season.
He has interviewed players, coaching staff, board members and fans to get a true warts-and-all picture of life at Leeds United as they struggle for redemption. This is as dramatic a story of football as you will ever read.
Phil Hay was born in Edinburgh and has been a journalist for over six years. He was promoted to chief soccer writer of the Yorkshire Evening Post two years ago.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 19.6.2008 |
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Sprache | englisch |
Gewicht | 407 g |
Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Fußball |
ISBN-10 | 1-84596-393-8 / 1845963938 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-84596-393-4 / 9781845963934 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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