Bring Me the Sports Jacket of Arthur Montford

Name: Bring Me the Sports Jacket of Arthur Montford | An Adventure Through Scottish Football
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An Adventure Through Scottish Football

Aidan Smith(Autor*in)

Arena Sport (Verlag)

1. Auflage

Erschienen am 3. November 2022

208 Seiten

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Introduction
1. 'The strolling narrator of the dark blue saga'
Arthur Montford: How it all Began
2. 'The pan loaf-fed, ginger-haired, bandy-legged exemplar of Scottish gallusness'
Jimmy Johnstone all at Sea
3. 'Scarlett Johansson's a Hibby'
The Ultimate Celebrity Fan
4. 'Like a magician revealing where he'd hidden the rabbit, the ace of spades and the sawn-in-half woman from the audience'
How we Got Round Prohibition
5. 'The featherweight nation with the massive and furious pride'
How we Endured the Albanian Soup and Got Out with Beards Intact
6. 'The greatest crap golfer in the world'
A Round with Denis Law
7. 'Let's see what's going to happen in the next 28 minutes!'
Gently, David Francey Blows up the Radio
8. 'Who's that with Davie Robb?' (Oh, just Cruyff, Beckenbauer, Pelé .)
Confessions of a Broughty Ferry Scallywag
9. 'The original home of soccer madness'
Our Greatest European Final (it's not Real vs Eintracht)
10. 'Don't you remember I awarded you a shy in your own half in the eighth minute?'
Tiny Wharton, Giant Among Whistlers
11. 'Dive! Dive! Dive!'
Argentina by Submarine
12. 'A burr to soothe a growly old dog'
James Alexander Gordon, Results Rounder-Upper
13. 'Long bangers between garage doors under a single, sparking street lamp'
East Fife Trip the Light Fantastic
14. 'Dan Brown vs the brown drink'
Bovril - Accept No Substitute
15. 'We were warned not to get off with any footballers . I ended up with Chick Young'
The Tennent's can Girls
16. 'Quinty-whit?'
The Greatest Slogan TV's Mad Men Never Coined
17. 'A double-headed sixpence wrapped in a mystery inside a clootie dumpling'
Dundee's Conjoined Twins
18. 'I grabbed the pigeon and threw it at the clown'
John Lambie, Character
19. 'Like a Mellotron on top of a piano on top of a Hammond organ on top of a double-necked guitar'
The Edinburgh Derby Beats Hitler
20. 'What country, no matter how desperate, sticks a goalie outfield during a World Cup?'
Bobby Clark Leaves His Line
21. 'eight Flumps, twelve Bubblies, four Fruit Salads, six Flying Saucers .'
Alex Miller, Ice-cream Man
22. 'Cod-classical codswallop in codpieces'
Rick Wakeman's Wonderous Story
23. 'I suppose they were expecting me to drop down dead'
Wholehearted Asa Hartford
24. 'My first taste of alcohol, almost-black industrial descaler, disgusting and beautiful'
Football on Christmas Day
25. 'Baldy! Baldy!'
The Follicly Challenged
26. ''Cause every little thing gonna be all right'
When Dixie Deans Met Bob Marley
27. 'I was given away as a baby, passed right doon the street'
Kenny Burns and George Graham, the Toughest of Starts
28. 'My boys are professional sportsmen, not performing seals - how dare you!'
The Greatest Football Song
29. 'One Tillicoultry, there's only one Tillicoultry'
Dougie Donnelly, Sofa So Good
30. 'Death smiles at us all. All we can do is smile back'
Frank Haffey Shrugs Off Our Worst Humiliation
31. 'erra Protestant macaroon bars!'
Football Food
32. 'Hunkering down in the long grass with The observer Book of Birds? That was pervy'
Alex Macdonald, Ornithologist, Is Surprised By Willie Wallace, A Horseman Riding By
33. 'Sticking it to them'
England'S World Cup Triumph - Made In Scotland
34. 'A goal to have Space Race kids dreaming of exciting planets waiting to be explored'
Willie Carr'S Donkey Kick
35. 'Seven oaters a year, all of them stoaters'
Willie Donachie'S Read War and Peace. Have You?
36. 'There is nothing like a Dane'
Morton'S Scandi Invasion
37. 'Like being told I had a nice wee car or a nice wee penis'
Programme Collecting
38. 'Obsession by Calvin Klein, lager by Tennent's'
Brechin City'S Hedge
39. 'Always laid-back, always "unroughled"'
The First Sleeper-Keeper
40. 'The curious incident of the dog just after half-time'
Ted Macdougall vs Chic Brodie, Clash of the Titans
41. 'Wallace and Vomit'
Rangers On The Sand Dunes
42. 'The parka-clad schoolboy stampede across a quagmire'
Tony Green In The Blink Of An Eye
43. 'This yellow 2CV screeched to a halt and out tumbled Mick Jagger'
George Mccluskey Attempts to Change the Course of Rock Music History
44. 'Impassive, inscrutable, inviolable, unbuyable'
The Half-Time Scoreboard Operator
45. 'Casey Kasem ripped him off, copied his ironed hair'
We Want Arthur! We Want Arthur!
46. 'Like a penny banger exploding in a cast-iron dustbin'
Archie Gemmill And The Best Of Us
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