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Ayr United - The Compendium Duncan Carmichael

Ayr United - The Compendium By Duncan Carmichael

Ayr United - The Compendium by Duncan Carmichael


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Summary

In a beautiful world these football statistics would be full of triumphant information generated by glorious success. Yet for every `all time best' there is an `all time worst'. The glorious and the inglorious. As even the most spellbinding statistics can lose their allure, narrative is used to bring them to life. And great photographs.

Ayr United - The Compendium Summary

Ayr United - The Compendium by Duncan Carmichael

There are lies, damned lies and statistics. In the world of football the concept of argument is woven into the fabric of the game and Duncan Carmichael views this as a positive. After all, the game cannot die for as long as it is being discussed. Why? Who? Where? When? How many? Statistics have the power to solve an argument or to fuel it further. Here the aim is to provide authoritative solutions to Ayr United-related arguments. For every question there is an answer. Including finding out which player had nary a blemish on his escutcheon. The accounts begin with the first Ayr United match to be abandoned - on 11th November 1911 - and end with a list of couples married in the Somerset Park Centre circle. Among the historic images and photographs reproduced in between are many from the private collection of the late Hugh Nelson.

About Duncan Carmichael

Duncan Carmichael is the author of a growing number of Ayr United-themed books. As the Club historian, he also contributes to football biographies and club histories and helps many researching their family histories. The roots of his devotion date back to 1959, when his own family moved from Bathgate to Ayr, and his favoured role at Somerset Park continues to be to lend support from the Somerset Road end.

Table of Contents

Abandonments; Age; Appearances; Attendances; Biggest wins; Broadcast media; Captains; Championships; Christmas Day Football; Clergy; Coincidental happenings; Colours; Corner-kicks; Corruption; Debuts; Defeats; Discipline (Loss of!); Draws; Family connections; Farmers; Film; First Kick; Floodlights; Foreign players; Foreign tours; Foreign teams at Somerset Park; Foreign teams - Other matches against; Foreign travel 1928/29 - The season of English rejection; Goals; Last day escapes; League - all time record; League - opening games; League Cup; League competitions: Texaco Cup / Anglo-Scottish Cup; League competitions: Centenary Cup/ B & Q Cup / League Challenge Cup/ Alba Challenge Cup / Ramsdens Cup /Petrofac Training Cup / Irn Bru Cup; Managers; Maternity; Nicknames and soubriquets; Penalty kicks; Points; Postponements; Quotations; Scottish Cup; Scottish Internationalists; Sequences; Shutouts; Special titles; Substitutes; Tallest players; Testimonials; Trainers / Physiotherapists; Transfer fees; Turnover; Weddings.

Additional information

GOR013927494
9781849211796
1849211795
Ayr United - The Compendium by Duncan Carmichael
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Zeticula Ltd
2019-08-24
380
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