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Pitch took our original concept and further enhanced it, using their knowledge, experience and expertise, and helped make Got, Not Got one of the football books of the year for 2011.

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Got, Not Got

Subtitle:: The A-Z of Lost Football Culture, Treasures and Pleasures
By:: Derek Hammond and Gary Silke
Price:: £19.99
Out:: 14th October 2011
ISBN:: 9781908051141
Format:: Hardback
Size:: 300 x 216
Pages:: 224

Description

Football used to be better in the past – and here’s the proof. Got, Not Got focuses on British football’s apparent lost Utopia of the ’60s, ’70s and ’80s – the fondly remembered ‘Golden Age’ of mudbaths and cloggers, of 00-scale games and imaginary, comic-fuelled worlds. It evokes the feel and smell of football past, its rituals and relics.

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About the author

Derek Hammond has written about football and music for FourFourTwo, club programmes, mirror.co.uk and the NME. Gary Silke is editor of The Fox, one of the original and oldest football fanzines still in existence. They have provided football cards for The Onion Bag, BBC1’s Match of the Seventies/Eighties and the National Football Museum.

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