This Ayr United Thing - More Iliad than Illyria
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Overview
Club Historian Duncan Carmichael reflects on the curious consequences that supporting a local football club will have.
Fifty-five years of writing programme notes have done nothing to diminish Duncan's enthusiasms: practicing stoicism, patience, emotional control in times of stress, perfect knowledge of transport timetables, motorway toilets and recommended fish-and-chiperies.
Generations of Carmichaels have found their lives rearranged by fixtures and foul weather, and here Duncan blends family reminiscences with reports of battles won and lost on a journey featuring glorious defeats and routine victories, but as yet no happiness at the still-elusive end.
Duncan's databases and archives of epic proportions are the accurate grounding for a fascinating review of one club's mesmeric hold on a typical Saturday foot-soldier.
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- ISBN-13: 9781849212618
- ISBN-10: 1849212619
- Publisher: Kennedy & Boyd
- Publish Date: September 2025
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1.31 inches
- Shipping Weight: 2.09 pounds
- Page Count: 432
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