Thank God for Football!: The Illustrated Companion - Paperback
by Peter Lupson (Author)
The original Thank God for Football! was published to great acclaim in 2006.
This new edition, with abbreviated text, contains almost 120 illustrations. It gathers together a huge number of rare images of founders, founding churches and early teams. It includes contemporary photographs of streets where players lived, pubs in which they socialized and churches where they gathered. Furthermore, it offers images reflecting the impact of Thank God for Football!: the restoration of founders' graves, the inducting of Christian founders into Halls of Fame, and features in match programmes and club magazines.
Peter Lupson was for 12 years Chief Examiner for GCE advanced level German for the University of Oxford. He is the author of a number of successful school and university French and German text books, as well as Across the Park: Everton FC and Liverpool Common Ground (Trinity Mirror Sport Media, 2009). He is honorary life president of a semi-professional club in North Wales and the founder of a thriving church youth league on Merseyside. He currently combines part-time English teaching with writing.
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