Tales from the era of the Silver Jubilee, skinheads, and great bands like Sham 69, The Ramones, The Jam, The Clash, The Stranglers, and The Sex Pistols. Tommy and his mates liked nothing better than a beer, the gigs, and their beloved football team, Sheffield Wednesday. They went to every game, home and away, to enjoy the match—and, of course, a good fight. This is the diary of events covering the seasons 1975 through to 2002; the planning, the pubs, the matches, the rucks, and the coppers. Never mindless violence, but the days were not complete without a good all-out fight with the rivals.

Wednesday, Rucks and Rock 'n' Roll

Sports & Outdoors

Cronshaw, Anthony

Soccer

John Blake

A double-sided flip book exploring the divide between fans of Sheffield United and Sheffield WednesdayFootball rivalry is a common factor anywhere in the world where the sport is played, but some take it far more seriously than others. In Sheffield, the traditional capital of Britain's steel manufacturing industry, there is no greater tribal divide than between fans of Sheffield United and Sheffield Wednesday. The two clubs' supporters berate each other with a venomous passion, their long-running feud intense enough to divide families and workplaces from 1889 to the present day. But why? How does a natural rivalry that, in the 1960s, saw supporters from both clubs going to Hillsborough Stadium (Wednesday's ground) one week, then Bramell Lane (home to United) the next, turn to such enmity? In this history, authors Cowens (a United supporter) and Cronshaw (Wednesday) leaven their insider knowledge and fan anecdotes with a dark humor and bitter fascination with football violence. The struggle for supremacy between red (United) and blue (Wednesday), between "blade" and "owl", is absolute. To the people of Sheffield, Britain's fourth largest city, it’s never just a game.

Steel City Rivals

Politics & Social Sciences

Cowens, Steve

Social Sciences

A Kid of Steel: Shirecliffe for Starters, Birley for Afters

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