Gas Masks for Goal Posts: Football in Britain During the Second World War - Rippon, Anton
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Nostalgic, revealing and fascinating survey of football during World War II. Full of anecdotes and big names, plus a foreword by Tom Finney.
When Britain declared war on Germany in September 1939, football came to an abrupt halt. Large crowds were banned, stadiums were given over to military use, most players joined up. Then it was realized that if victory was the national goal, soccer could help - and football went to war. For the next six years the game became hugely important to Britain. Boosting morale and raising hundreds of thousands of pounds for war funds

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Nostalgic, revealing and fascinating survey of football during World War II. Full of anecdotes and big names, plus a foreword by Tom Finney.
When Britain declared war on Germany in September 1939, football came to an abrupt halt. Large crowds were banned, stadiums were given over to military use, most players joined up. Then it was realized that if victory was the national goal, soccer could help - and football went to war. For the next six years the game became hugely important to Britain. Boosting morale and raising hundreds of thousands of pounds for war funds
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Anton Rippon was born during the Second World War and grew up watching football. He has covered top-flight soccer for national and local newspapers and his work has appeared in The Times, The Independent, The Guardian and the Sunday Telegraph. For over 20 years he ran one of the UK's leading football publishers and was also editorial director of The Footballer magazine. The author of some 20 sporting books.