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What a Shot! Derek Hammond

What a Shot! By Derek Hammond

What a Shot! by Derek Hammond


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Summary

Football fans of a certain vintage love Polaroid snaps of crumbling grounds, distant players toiling in mud and fences topped with razor-sharp spikes. These overexposed images of bobble hats and feather cuts, blurred wingers, knitwear, floodlights and inflatables offer an evocative window into a Lost World of Football - from a fans' eye view.

What a Shot! Summary

What a Shot!: Your Snaps of the Lost World of Football by Derek Hammond

Football fans love nothing more than faded Polaroids of crumbling grounds, distant players toiling in mud and fences topped with razor-sharp spikes - all snapped from the terraces in the belief that the results would prove worthy of the back page when they arrived back from the developers. At least, that's certainly true of fans of a certain vintage. When '70s and '80s snapshots taken from the stands and terraces were posted on the Got, Not Got blog, traffic tripled overnight and floods of snaps were mailed in from all over Britain. The artistic value of the pics is hilariously mixed, featuring the overexposed back of many a feather cut. But for the kids pictured here in full kit in their back gardens - now grown men - these blurred images of star wingers, knitwear, floodlights and inflatables offer an evocative window into a Lost World of Football - from a fans' eye view.

About Derek Hammond

Derek Hammond has written about football and music for FourFourTwo, club programmes, mirror.co.uk and the NME. Gary Silke is editor of The Fox, one of the original and oldest football fanzines still in existence. The pair have provided football cards for The Onion Bag, BBC1's Match of the Seventies/Eighties and the National Football Museum.

Additional information

GOR005919163
9781909178748
1909178748
What a Shot!: Your Snaps of the Lost World of Football by Derek Hammond
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Pitch Publishing Ltd
20131018
144
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Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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