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E: 21/03/08 - Uppies and Downies book
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Uppies and Downies - the extraordinary football games of Britain
Together with Played in Britain, Icons.com have two copies of this fantastic book to give away.
Never the mind the millionaire mercenaries of the Premiership. Forget the hype, the hysteria and the hullabaloo of the so-called 'beautiful game'. All over Britain, from Cornwall to Kirkwall, from Dorset to the Borders, in cobbled streets, muddy fields, icy brooks and moonlit harbours, the centuries-old traditions of mass football are today alive and kicking.
Author Hugh Hornby - a former curator at the National Football Museum in Preston - has spent five years travelling around Britain, attending these games. Few historians are so steeped in football lore as is Hornby. No football historian is as steeped in mud. Combining in-depth history, explanations of the rituals, superb action and archive photography and detailed maps, Uppies and Downies is the first book to provide a guide to Britain's mass football tradition, so that readers may know where and when to see them, and, best of all, how to work out what on earth is going on!
To be in with a chance of winning, simply answer the following question correctly:
Competition Question:
<table><tbody><tr><td valign="top">Q:
</td><td valign="top">Which League One team plays at Kenilworth Road?
Answer: Luton Town
http://www.icons.com/competition.html?C263
</td></tr></tbody></table>
Together with Played in Britain, Icons.com have two copies of this fantastic book to give away.
Never the mind the millionaire mercenaries of the Premiership. Forget the hype, the hysteria and the hullabaloo of the so-called 'beautiful game'. All over Britain, from Cornwall to Kirkwall, from Dorset to the Borders, in cobbled streets, muddy fields, icy brooks and moonlit harbours, the centuries-old traditions of mass football are today alive and kicking.
Author Hugh Hornby - a former curator at the National Football Museum in Preston - has spent five years travelling around Britain, attending these games. Few historians are so steeped in football lore as is Hornby. No football historian is as steeped in mud. Combining in-depth history, explanations of the rituals, superb action and archive photography and detailed maps, Uppies and Downies is the first book to provide a guide to Britain's mass football tradition, so that readers may know where and when to see them, and, best of all, how to work out what on earth is going on!
To be in with a chance of winning, simply answer the following question correctly:
Competition Question:
<table><tbody><tr><td valign="top">Q:
</td><td valign="top">Which League One team plays at Kenilworth Road?
Answer: Luton Town
http://www.icons.com/competition.html?C263
</td></tr></tbody></table>
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