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Sheffield United football books and dvds and a virtual aerial tour of Bramall Lane. Great books about current and former Sheffield United players and Sheffield United managers and the history of Sheffield United football club.
Top recommended books include Sheffield United Head to Head, Collection of Memories,Stories and Anecdotes of Supporting Sheffield United Football Club, Association Football Ernest Needham (England and Sheffield United) plus many more in the Sheffield United online bookshop
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Match of My Life - Sheffield United: Twelve Stars Relive Their Favourite Games (Match of My Life)
12 Sheffield United legends past and present, including Tony Currie, Keith Edwards, Gary Hamson, Alan Kelly, Brian Deane, Tommy Hoyland and Tony Kenworthy, tell the stories of their favourite games whilst wearing the famous red and white striped shirt. This work features personal insights and recollections from many of the "Blades'" greatest heroes recalling their finest hour. Featured matches include Cup victories over Liverpool and Arsenal and the 2006 promotion winning story by Phil Jagielka.
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Sheffield United Head to Head
Sheffield United: Head to Head reveals for the first time how the Blades have fared against every club they've ever played, in any competition, since the club entered the Football League. From Accrington to York City, United's complete record of matches against each club is looked at in detail and illustrated with pictures. Also included is a table of players who've played for both clubs and a 'fact file' highlighting the most surprising nuggets to be gleaned from this fresh way of interpreting the club's statistics. Did you know that in September 1998 two Blades players scored a hat-trick in the same game for the only time since World War Two when Brian Deane and Tony Agana put three each past Chester City? Or that United's highest-ever scoring draw is 5-5 against Leicester in 1951? Within these pages you will discover that the biggest-ever attendance at Bramall Lane came in 1936 when 68,287 crammed in to watch Blades beat Leeds 3-1 in an FA Cup match; that Brian Deane scored the first-ever goal in the newly inaugurated Premiership after five minutes against Manchester United in August 1992; and that the Blades last reached double figures in a match when they beat Burnley 10-0 in 1929. All these facts and figures, along with countless others, are easily accessible in Sheffield United: Head to Head, which deserves a place on any fan's bookshelf. This new addition to Breedon's well-respected stable of football statistics books has been meticulously researched and compiled. Comprehensive enough for the die-hard statto, yet readable enough for the armchair fan, it is sure to appeal to everyone with an interest in the history of this great Yorkshire club.
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Blades Tales 2: Another Collection of Memories,Stories and Anecdotes of Supporting Sheffield United Football Club
Four long years after the best-selling first edition, the imaginatively-entitled sequel "Blades Tales 2" is available now.
From fog-bound reserve game trips to 200 drunken Blades arriving at Fulham by boat to a Royal Navy presence at an end-of-season tour of Trinidad and Tobago, there is an irrepressible vigour and vitality to this collection of anecdotes and memories that make "Blades Tales 2" that rare commodity in football literature – truly compulsive, cover-to-cover reading.
The perfect coffee table accessory or door-wedge, "Blades Tales 2" is an absolute must-have for any self-respecting football supporter. Or even Sheffield Wednesday fans.
Where "Fever Pitch" was perhaps ‘fiction football’, "Blades Tales 2" is very much ‘reality football’, with which any success-starved fan of any club will immediately identify.
Packed with humour, candour, hope and the irrational optimism that so colours a football fan’s life, "Blades Tales 2" reminds us that – thankfully – there is still so much more to football than Sky and the Champions League, and that there is more than one ‘United’ in the country.
Revel in some of the broad Sheffield dialect – if you can follow it! – shake your head at the recurrent alcohol consumption and occasional violence, nod knowingly at the familiar oh-so-close disappointment of your own team in similar circumstances, but above all relax, put your feet up and prepare to be entertained by this uninhibited ride into football fandom.
An excerpt from the introduction perhaps gives a sense of what’s to come,
"I still remember a mate of mine, full of best bitter, claiming at half-time, that he would eat his match programme if the match or United didn’t improve. Neither did, so true to his word, he proceeded to devour the lot. Well, all but the staples. He is a sensible lad, after all."
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