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Soccer and Society in South Wales, 1900-1939

That Other Game

Author(s) Martin Johnes

Hardback - £19.99

Language: English

Genre(s): Wales Studies

Series: Studies in Welsh History

May 2002 · 288 pages ·216x138mm

· Hardback - 9780708317419

About the Book
About the Author(s)

"That Other Game" surveys soccer's early history in south Wales. Through an exploration of the spectrum of the game, from international matches and professional clubs to schoolboy games, this book illustrates how soccer was shaped by wider social, cultural and economic forces.

Author(s): Martin Johnes

Martin Johnes is Professor of Modern History at Swansea University, and one of Wales’s best-known historians. He is the author of a series of books on Welsh history, including Wales: England’s Colony?, which was adapted into a BBC television series.