Buy this book on-line BELTON**, BRIAN: : Bubbles, Hammers & DreamsUK.DERBY.BREEDON BOOKS PUBLISHING COMPANY LIMITED,1997. ISBN 1859831079.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE+/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,glossy laminated,sepia photographic illustrated dw/dj,with white+blue letters; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present - some inevitable minor,minimal scoring/indentations to dw/dj.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - virtually as new - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - unread? Publisher's bright, crisp,clean,sharp-cornered original plain maroon cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,13-254pp [paginated] includes author's introduction,14 chapters+epilogue,a glossary,chronology and biblio.Plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a contents list/table,forewords by Geoff Hurst,MBE and Alan Curbishley and 2pp blanks at rear.
Players,managers,direcors and now even grounds come and go,but football supporters are always there.As such,football clubs do not belong to boards, shareholders or chairmen,they are the fans'.So it is from their point of view,and their moment in time,from the Boxer Uprising in China,through two World Wars,the Fifties and CND,Sixties London,the slump of the Eighties and into the future - the Irons of 2095,their second centenary year - that 'Bubbles,Hammers & Dreams' looks at the growth of West Ham United Football Club.
Arthur Hopcroft,in his classic work 'The Football Man',wrote: 'Football has not been a sideshow of this century.What happens on the football field matters,not in the way that food matters,but as poetry does to some people and alcohol does to others; it engages the personality.'
In 'Bubble,Hammers & Dreams' this is essentially what Brian Belton has captured. Across the decades and generations,his book looks at West Ham United through the lens of historic events and the eyes of the past.
And this is not just a book for West Ham supporters.It should be read by anyone who has an interest in football and who seeks to understand how passion,loyalty and love for a football club are transported over thousands of miles,down the years and across entire communities.
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