Shooting Stars

Author:

By Graham Phythian

Format:

Paperback

Availability:

In print, usually dispatched within 5-7 days.

Price:

£12.00

Tagged with:

Football, Football Teams, Blackburn Olympic FC

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Further Details

• Published: 1st Mar 2007
• ISBN: 1899468838
• Pages: 132
• Size: 246mm x 1889mm

From the Publisher:

Blackburn Olympic were the first Northern club to win the FA Cup. They were also the first working-mans club to break the monopoly of wins by the amateur old boys clubs from the London area.

Benefiting from extensive and up-to-date research, as well as input from descendants of the 1883 Cup Finalists, this book is a detailed and readable factual account of the ground-breaking, if short-lived, club. Discover:

*the founding of the club in a back-street Blackburn coffee shop;
*the battle for supremacy in the town and beyond;
*the two giant-killing FA Cup runs;
*the increasingly fierce (and occasionally sinister) struggle for survival with arch-rivals Rovers.

There are over 60 illustrations, many of which have never before been published. They included pictures of players, medals, trophies and a rare match programme from the 1880's. Every result and date of games played is detailed in an Appendix. The author describes how football developed in the Blackburn area and includes a map showing where each club played.