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POINTLESS: A SEASON WITH BRITAIN'S WORST FOOTBALL TEAM by CONNOR, JEFF (Hardcover - 2005) ISBN: 9780755313525 Subject: BIOGRAPHY Publisher: HEADLINE BOOK PUBLISHING In 1888 East Stirlingshire FC beat Vale of Bannock 11-2. You could say it has all been downhill from there. These days the Shire are lucky if all eleven players make it to a game; they have an average home attendance at their dilapidated Firs Park ground of 200 and they ended the 2004/05 season bottom of the Scottish Third Division ¡V for the third consecutive year. This is the inside, in-depth and often indiscreet story of Britain¡¦s Worst Football Team. Granted access to all areas, Jeff Connor gets into the dressing room, the board room and the dug-out; and during one away trip ¡V in a moment of true desperation on the Shire¡¦s part ¡V he is even asked whether he has brought his football boots with him¡K |
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