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Barnsley football books and dvds and a virtual aerial tour of Oakwell Great books about current and former Barnsley players and Barnsley managers and the history of Barnsley football club.
Top recommended books include There's Only One Neil Redfearn, Keeper of Dreams, Tommy Taylor of Manchester United and Barnsley plus many more in the Barnsley online bookshop
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There's Only One Neil Redfearn: The Ups and Downs of My Footballing Life
Neil Redfearn is a man dedicated to - some might say obsessed by - football. He's just about the last of the generation of players who began near the bottom, made it to the top and then moved back down the ladder again. He has seen promotion to the Premiership (with Barnsley and Oldham) and relegation from the Football League (with Halifax); made nearly 1000 senior appearances over 24 seasons as a professional and scored just short of 200 goals. He talks about the managers he has played for - including Brian Clough, Alan Curbishley and Joe Royle - as well as some he hasn't: Arsene Wenger once called him 'the dirtiest player in the Premiership'. Still playing at the age of 40 - as player-manager of Conference side Scarborough - and poised to move into full-time management, Neil Redfearn has a unique perspective on what it's like when football literally becomes your life.
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Keeper of Dreams: The Incredible Story of a Goalkeeper
One man's controversial story of life in the English Premiership - the tabloid truth about professional football. Cologne footballer Lars Leese experienced in real life what tens of thousands of amateur footballers can only dream of as they kick a ball about in parks on Sunday afternoons: someone appearing out of nowhere and making you a professional soccer-player. At the age of 20 Leese was still playing in the Westerwald District League (the third lowest of division of all German organised football), yet by 28 he'd abandoned his job as a computer software salesman and was helping Barnsley to their 1:0 Premiership victory over Liverpool FC. Leese spent three years in the world of professional football, to the fans' and indeed his own persistent astonishment - Frankfurter Rundschau referred to him as 'Mister Cinderella'. Through a series of interviews, Ronald Reng traces the stratospheric rise and equally rapid fall from grace of goalkeeper Lars Leese: the resulting narrative offers us an antidote to the average footballing biography and a unique - and at times shocking - outsider's view of the Premiership and life in England. Keeper of Dreams is brilliant mixture of footballing anecdote and intimate biography, not since you last read the back pages of the News of the World will you have seen such a an accurate picture of life as a Premiership footballer.
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Tommy Taylor of Manchester United and Barnsley: A Busby Babe - An Illustrated Biography
Centre-forwards live or die by the number of goals they score. To achieve this courage has to be paramount in their array of talents. Tommy Taylor had courage aplenty! Like Denis Law, the man who succeeded to his position many years later, Tommy was prepared to stick his head in among the flying boots in the penalty area and take all the defenders threw against him. As the spearhead of the great Busby Babes side, Tommy was deadly in the air but also able to drift wide and pull defenders out of position. He went onto make 189 appearances for United and won 19 England caps. But it is as a 'big feller with a big heart' that supporters remember him 40 years after his death in the Munich air disaster.
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