GAME THAT WOULD BE KING

The Uncharted History of Soccer 800-1800 AD

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This guide takes the reader on a journey throughhistory, tracing the origins of soccer from its humble beginning to an establishedsport beloved worldwide. It is a story that spans five thousand years, fromancient Egypt toMesoAmerica, from the Greek Empire to Chinese Dynasties, and from the RomanEmpire to medieval Britain.From the Middle Ages onwards, Britain and Ireland unfurl their lineage, fromthe lesser-known trapball and stoolball to the lamentably extinct camping andknappan. All forms find a voice in this book, as do hockey and hurling,baseball and bowling, tennis and golf. Primarily a narrative of British andIrish ball games, esteemed foreigners are welcomed: baggataway, knattleikur,soule, kolven, calcio. Many games come to life, revealing their motivations,and their complex inner world. Still, soccer is firmly center stage. This is,after all, its picaresque journey.As the games sweep across history, the social,religious, and political contexts are threaded throughout, and this book ispeppered with news snippets, anecdotes, comedy, and intrigue, which gift thecenturies life. Crammed with eccentric sports ephemera, untold tales, andunearthed facts, The Game That Would Be King is the most comprehensivework on the early history of ball games ever written.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-11-20
Mått140 x 216 x 32 mm
Vikt724 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor520
FörlagMeyer & Meyer Sport (UK) Ltd
ISBN9781782552857

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Brendan Murphy is theauthor of From Sheffield with Love, a history of the world's oldestsoccer club. He has published two young adult fantasy books, Beyond theGloaming and The Traitor's Trap. He is an adjunct associateprofessor of psychiatry and has written widely on youth mental health. He wasraised in Sheffield, England, and lives in Melbourne with his two children in amudbrick house built for the composer Dorian Le Gallienne. They share threeacres with shy sugar gliders, sturdy spiders, a colony of bats, colorfulbirdlife, charming kookaburras, and a mob of kangaroos.

THE IRISH POST"Murphy traces a family tree of games long forgotten:trapball, stoolball, the wonderfully named "camping" and "knappan", withhockey, hurling, baseball, bowling, tennis and golf stepping into view alongthe way ... Soccer remains centre stage, but the wider cast gives the book itscolour, strangeness and charm."SOCCER BOOKS UK"In an era where soccer dominates global sports culture,Brendan Murphy's The Game That Would Be King arrives as arevolutionary text that challenges everything we thought we knew about the beautifulgame's origins. This meticulously researched volume doesn't just push back thetimeline of soccer's history-it explodes it."IRISH AMERICA"The Game ThatWould Be King sets out to do something audacious: rewrite what we think we knowabout the origins of soccer ... Packed with oddities, anecdotes andephemera, The Game That Would Be King is a dense but engaging work- likely the most comprehensive history of early ball games yet assembled."

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