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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: 9781849212625
  • ISBN-10: 1849212627
  • Publisher: Kennedy & Boyd
  • Publish Date: September 2025
  • Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1.17 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
  • Page Count: 432

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