Why Delilah?
Breaking down the Premiere League door
John Leonard
This book is available for download with iBooks on your Mac or iOS device, and with iTunes on your computer. Books can be read with iBooks on your Mac or iOS device.
Description
What national lessons can be learned from the trials and tribulations of Potteries’ football? This book looks at the state of professional football in England, its financing, its governance, its coverage in the media, through the prism of two football clubs, Stoke City and Port Vale. They share the same city, Stoke-on-Trent; the smallest in England with more than one professional club. They share contrasting fortunes in the Premier League era. Stoke City established itself in the Premier League despite being widely derided in the national media for the style of play under its former manager, Tony Pulis. It defied the odds thanks to the backing of multi-millionaire owners from local bookmakers Bet365. Port Vale, a club theoretically under fan ownership, almost went out of business, needing to be bailed out by a local authority axing jobs and cutting services.
What lessons can be learned by the wider national game from the travails of Stoke and Vale? “Why Delilah?” is for all football fans; those concerned about the future of the people’s game, the beautiful game. At times controversial, it aims to provoke an important debate on the true state of association football in England; one too often held in the past from a Metropolitan perspective. Why Delilah? Breaking down the Premier League door offers a different perspective; one from the Potteries a proud working class district of England, steeped in football history.

- $3.99
- Category: Football
- Published: Nov 03, 2014
- Publisher: North Staffordshire Press
- Seller: Inspired film and video limited
- Print Length: 190 Pages
- Language: English
Discover and share
new apps.
Follow us on @AppStore.
Discover and share new music, movies, TV, books, and more.
Follow us @iTunes and discover
new iTunes Radio Stations
and the music we love.