Free shipping on all orders over $79* Limited Time Only
Track My Order
Help Centre
Likes
My Wish ListsLogin / Join
Booktopia
Australia's local bookstore
Get Free Shipping on orders over $79
Mister : The Men Who Gave The World The Game - Rory Smith

Mister

The Men Who Gave The World The Game

By: Rory Smith

eBook | 7 April 2016

At a Glance

eBook

$19.99

or 4 interest-free payments of $5.00 with

Instant Digital Delivery to your Kobo Reader App

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR.
SUNDAY TIMES SPORT BOOK OF THE YEAR.

From its late-Victorian flowering in the mill towns of the northwest of England, football spread around the world with great speed. It was helped on its way by a series of missionaries who showed the rest of the planet the simple joys of the game. Even now, in many countries, the colloquial word for a football manager is not 'coach' or 'boss' but 'mister', as that is how the early teachers were known, because they had come from the home of the sport to help it develop in new territories.
     
In Rory Smith's stunning new book Mister, he looks at the stories of these pioneers of the game, men who left this country to take football across the globe. Sometimes, they had been spurned in their own land, as coaching was often frowned upon in England in those days, when players were starved of the ball during the week to make them hungry for it on matchday. So it was that the inspirations behind the 'Mighty Magyars' of the 1950s, the Dutch of the 1970s or top clubs such as Barcelona came from these shores.
     
England, without realising it, fired the very revolution that would remove its crown, changing football's history, thanks to a handful of men who sowed the seeds of the inversion of football's natural order. This is the story of the men who taught the world to play and shaped its destiny. This is the story of the Misters.
Industry Reviews
'It is in the small details of how the destinies of this band of proselytisers were forged that the book delivers such delights.'
on

You Can Find This eBook In

Non-FictionSports & Recreation

Other Editions and Formats

Paperback

Published: 20th April 2017

View Product

More in Sports & Recreation

The Daring Book for Girls - Andrea J. Buchanan

eBOOK

The Daring Book for Girls

eBook

RRP $35.99

$28.99

19%
OFF
The Double-Daring Book for Girls - Andrea J. Buchanan

eBOOK

The Double-Daring Book for Girls

eBook

RRP $35.99

$28.99

19%
OFF
Why I Fight : The Belt Is Just an Accessory - B.J. Penn

eBOOK

Why I Fight

The Belt Is Just an Accessory

eBook

RRP $17.99

$14.99

17%
OFF
Steinbrenner : The Last Lion of Baseball - Bill Madden

eBOOK

Steinbrenner

The Last Lion of Baseball

eBook

RRP $24.99

$20.99

16%
OFF
The Ride of My Life - Mat Hoffman

eBOOK

The Ride of My Life

eBook

RRP $25.99

$20.99

19%
OFF
Through My Eyes - Tim Tebow

eBOOK

Through My Eyes

eBook

RRP $25.99

$20.99

19%
OFF

This product is categorised by