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    Team of all the Macs

    By Alan Wilson

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    Many football fans today believe the current trend of wealthy owners throwing their money at clubs and flooding the game with overpaid foreign players is new - it is anything but. This book covers English football's first foreign invasion in 1892. Following a boardroom row that split the defending league champions, Everton, down the middle Liverpool Football Club were formed. John Houlding, the owner of Anfield, was left in the peculiar position of having a state-of-the-art stadium but no team to play in it. Houlding armed his friend, John McKenna, with substantial funds and specific orders to build him a team within two months that would be fit to grace Anfield. The team McKenna assembled was so full of Scots that they earned the nickname the 'Team of All the Macs' and this is their tale told through match reports and newspaper stories of the day that cover the birth of Liverpool Football Club and began their love affair with Scottish players that has continued with the likes of Ian St John, Kenny Dalglish and Alan Hansen through the years.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherVertical Editions
    Release dateNov 6, 2011
    ISBN9781904091592
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    Alan Wilson

    Alan Wilson is Director, Special Projects at The Alan Turing Institute, and was its founding Chief Executive. His background lies in mathematics and theoretical physics. He converted to geography and the social sciences and for over five decades, his research has centred on the science of cities and regions, and the application of that science in urban planning. He has held appointments in Oxford, Leeds and UCL, and has been a university vice-chancellor. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Society and was knighted in 2001 for services to higher education.

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