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£16.95
Hardback
Includes over 50
historic photographs
ISBN 1901 746 25 9
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With Dante Friend
Foreword by Fred Eyre
A tall, leggy striker with a venomous left-foot shot, Young scored in every significant game for City in the late 60s. Scorer of two goals in the 1968 Championship win up at Newcastle, the scorer of the 1969 FA Cup Final winner and the first goal in the 1970 Cup Winners’ Cup final, Neil Young played as significant a role in the success and style of the Mercer-Allison partnership as anyone. Yet by 1972 he was allowed to leave the club as City began their now familiar relationship with underachievement and mismanagement.
In ‘Catch a Falling Star’, Neil Young explains what he has been up to in the years since his sizzling shots stung the hands of the country’s finest goalkeepers. Following his premature exit from Maine Road. Here he frankly discusses the problem that faced footballers of the pre-Premiership era: “When I left Rochdale for the last time one Friday afternoon I had a week’s wages... about £60. I drove home and sat in my lounge for about two hours, wondering what the hell I was going to do. I had a car on HP, a mortgage, a wife and three children to feed. I was the provider who could no longer provide. I had no savings whatsoever and my wife didn’t work. I didn’t see it coming. It was a calamity waiting to happen.”
Thus starts Neil’s decline into illness and depression. During the next painful decade Neil suffered numerous illnesses, lost his family, his mother and survived a suicide attempt. Thankfully, he has emerged with his spirit intact thanks largely to the love of his third wife, Carmen. ‘Catch a Falling Star’ is the moving tale of a how a star on the wane managed to mount a personal comeback as impressive as any achieved on the pitch by City's star-studded squad of the late 60s.
ISBN: 1901746283
£5.99
Includes free tour map
Published: May 2002
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Morrissey's Manchester
The
essential Smiths Tour
by
Phill Gatenby
Foreword by Mick Middles
Has any other
band been so inspired by their hometown as much as The Smiths? It's as
if they could never have been formed anywhere else in the world. The decaying
Manchester of the late 1970s and early 80s shaped the band which is why
they provided the soundtrack to so many thousands of lives growing up
not only in Manchester, but throughout the world.
Since then of course Manchester has changed considerably, nonetheless
the Smiths part in that revival is often overlooked. Manchester's part
in the cultural revolution of the late 1980s proceeded The Smiths starring
role in a city which has continued to produce world class music time after
time.
These tours allow dedicated fans to visit the sights and sounds that inspired
Morrissey's writing - however they also offer the casual tourist a cheap
day out at points of interest and history in the city. We hope to expand
this series further over the coming months and hope you enjoy a taste
of Manchester's musical heritage.
‘A
quirky look at the world of the quizmaster... excellent example questions.’
JANE HADEN, FREEQUIZZES, WWW.FREEQUIZZES.CO.UK
‘Excellent advice on the way it should be done. If only all quizmasters
read this first.’
TOM ROSS, PUB QUIZ DIRECTORY, WWW.PUBQUIZDIRECTORY.COM
‘‘The
sample questions are excellent, the light-hearted tone a joy.’
ROB LINHAM, BUZZERQUIZ, WWW.BUZZERQUIZ.COM
£7.99
paperback
ISBN 1901746402
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by John Dawson
In Quiz Setting Made Easy, John Dawson explores the very essence of human existence. In his case the answer to the ancient philosophical conundrum ‘What sets humans apart from the animal kingdom?’ is straightforward. It is not the ability to form tools, communicate or feel empathy with our fellow planet dwellers but our desire to acquire (and retain) as much trivia as possible. In brief, this is his explanation for modern Britain’s obsession with the pub quiz and the consequent growth in the number of question and answer books, many of which have been published under the misapprehension that all a budding quiz setter needs to succeed is a large enough selection of questions that can be adapted according to circumstance.
Yet, as Quiz Setting Made Easy makes clear, there are many pitfalls for the budding Magnus Magnusson, not least the murmurs of complaint from contestants attempting to answer vaguelyworded and poorly researched questions. Then there are the potential disasters and the nagging doubts that bring the quiz setter out in a cold sweat in the middle of the night: Does the venue have a PA system? How do I make sure people turn up? What happens in the event of a tie? Who marks the questions, them or me?
Written in light-hearted vein, Quiz Setting Made Easy is designed to soothe the quiz setter’s brow and bring back the fun to what is, after all, a leisure-time pursuit. In addition to his expert advice on the dos and don’ts of quiz setting, John illustrates the style and expertise required of the fully fledged question-master. With 72 rounds containing over 1,100 expertly worded questions, John Dawson makes enough suggestions for alternative topics, interval rounds, tie-breakers and music rounds to keep a quiz-setter going for years. His ideas could also be adapted for use in the classroom, during wet weekends in Cleethorpes or the 90 degrees heat of an M6 traffic jam... in fact anywhere humans pursue the trivial.
About the Author
John Dawson was born and brought up in Liverpool. He taught for some years in Oxford after attending university there, though he dedicated far more time to folk music and bar billiards than to anything academic. An itchy brain took him to Kenya, Egypt, and back to Kenya, where he earns a multifarious living as an editor, writer, and photographer. He is the co-author of the wildlife book Africa Alive.