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by Thomas Taw (2004) Paperback 234x156mm
192 pages. Illustrated
ISBN: 1-874287-92-9
£14.99
The hardback is out of print
"Two sparkling new volumes [the other is The Matt Busby Chronicles] from Desert Island Books - always innovative publishers - explore different facets of the story of England's simultaneously most admired and reviled club ... [Taw's is] the fascinating and expertly told story of the years in which United first came to prominence." The Times.
CONTENTS:
1. Prologue
2. 1903-06: Towards the Holy Grail
3. Jack Jones’s Locker: Professional Football in the Golden
Age
4. 1906-07: Into the Vortex: a Promise Fulfilled
5. Sent off, He Refused to Go – 1908: Year of Reaction
6. 1909 and 1910: From One Union to Another
7. 1910-11: Old Trafford’s Championship
8. 1911-14: Towards the Precipice
Bibliography
Index and Glossary of Personalities Featured