Celtic: Pride and Passion

Oct 21, 2024 1:13 AM

Author:Jim Craig,Pat Woods

Celtic Football Club’s story is laced with drama and excitement, featuring a host of colourful individuals and a social history matched by few, if any, football clubs.

In Celtic: Pride and Passion, Lisbon Lion Jim Craig and Pat Woods, a historian of the club, take a fresh look at several lesser-known episodes in Celtic’s history, including: the fascinating link between Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show and a dramatic Ne’erday match at Celtic Park; the unforgettable night the ‘playboy of the Eastern world’ lit up Parkhead with a performance that helped to sow the seeds for a revolution at the club; the remarkable story of a trophy that was such a source of friction that the club kept it locked in a safe; and the pivotal year in which the rivalry between Celtic and Rangers took on a darker hue. They also recount the revealing story, told through the eyes of the European press, of how Celtic captivated a continent in the annus mirabilis of 1967.

Celtic: Pride and Passion is a book that no discerning fan of Celtic Football Club will want to be without.

Reviews

Brilliant, magical, unmissable

—— Daily Mail

Who needs politicians agonising about national and regional identities? Clare Balding has effortlessly encapsulated all we love best about Britain

—— Telegraph

Clare Balding would be the ideal surrogate sister or auntie. The joy of this book is Balding's sheer rapture for life, movement and never shutting up about it

—— The Times

Balding has won over the literary world with her two volumes of autobiography

—— Evening Standard

Even the most reluctant of walkers will be tempted to don wellies after reading Clare's wonderful descriptions... effortless charm

—— Express

Candid, personal and poetic

—— The Scotsman

An affirmation of life and the resilience of the human spirit, and it left me wanting to seek out the places he visits

—— Alison Ashmore , Shropshire Review Magazine

The outdoor tradition of English writing stretches by way of Gilbert White and Borrow, Cobbett, Jefferies and Hudson, through Williamson to those few authentic outdoor and nature writers – Jim Crumley, Mark Cocker, Paul Evans, Andrew Fusek Peters – of the present day

—— Jim Perrin , Great Outdoors Magazine

This dream of a book[...]is as beautiful and uplifting as it is visceral

—— Lynne Roper , Outdoor Swimming Society

Lyrical [and] refreshingly candid

—— The Countryman

With an eye for detail and a skilful way with words, Peters is an entertaining guide

—— H2Open

Dickinson makes Moore sound more human… One suspects this excellent biography comes close to describing the real Moore

—— UK Press Syndication

Excellent

—— Jon Wise, 5 stars , Weekend Sport

Outstanding

—— UK Press Syndication

Dickinson manages to bring balance to this incredibly well-researched book

—— 4 stars , FourFourTwo

Dickinson is tender to the memory of the Essex lad who, for a breathtaking instant, was glorious

—— Ain Finlayson and Kate Saunders , Saga Magazine

Matt's work is the most impressive West Ham book of the year, a genuine and sincere attempt to get to the root of the man. It is an excellent, thought-provoking book

—— Knees Up Mother Brown

A compelling and complete account

—— Sport

In The Man in Full, acclaimed football writer Matt Dickinson traces the journey of this Essex boy, peeling away the layers of legend and looking at Moore’s life from all sides – in triumph, in failure, in full

—— Bert Wright , Nudge

Outstanding... this excellent biography comes very close to describing the real Bobby Moore

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