This collection charts the first 100 years of a proud, well-supported club from the city that gave organised football to the world, from its birth as an offshoot of a cricket club, through to Football League and FA Cup triumphs, featuring insights into the everyday life of the players and the club.Included in the collection are team groups, action shots, player portraits and photographs of the Hillsborough stadium as it has been developed, with each picture supported by a detailed caption. Legendary Wednesday players featured in this pictorial history include Thomas Crawshaw, Ted Catlin, Ronnie Starling, Jackie Robinson, Redfern Froggatt and Derek Dooley, along with pioneering administrator Sir Charles Clegg.Written by Sheffield-born journalist Nick Johnson, this superb collection of around 200 photographs provides a fascinating glimpse into the past of a top football club and is an essential read for all Owls fans.

Volume three of a bibliography documenting all that has been written in the English language on the history of sport and physical education in Britain. It lists all secondary source material including reference works, in a classified order to meet the needs of the sports historian.

2016 marks the 50th anniversary of the 1966 FIFA World Cup, hosted in England. Unlike previous literature, which has tended to focus activities on the field, this book brings an institutional level approach to organizing the 1966 FIFA World Cup and examines the management process in the buildup and execution of the event. This intriguing new volume looks at the first significant UK government intervention in football and how this created a significant legacy as the government started to take a real interest in leisure facilities and stadium safety as policy areas after this competition. Foundations of Managing Sporting Events will be of considerable interest to research academics working on aspects of post war British, Imperial, and World history including sport, social, business, economic, and political history.

Arthur Wharton was the world's first black professional footballer, and the first African to play professional cricket in Yorkshire and Lancashire leagues. Those promoting Empire as an expression of white supremacy found him a supreme irritation, and he eventually died in poverty.

This bibliography is an entertaining and knowledgeable tribute to the beautiful game. The second edition features over 2000 new entries - including greatly increased coverage of football films and music - making over 7000 references to books and other items in total.