All 24 of the National League grounds have been added to the new edition of Football Grounds A Fans’ Guide @footygrounds which is being launched for the new 2018/19 season in early August, priced at £12.99.
Football Grounds A Fans Guide is essential reading for any supporter who intends following their team away from home during the forthcoming 2018/19 season.
Covering all 92 football grounds of the English Premier and Football Leagues – as well as the 24 teams from the National League for the first time in the guide’s history – it is filled with useful information and tips for the travelling supporter.
Not only are there practical details such as directions to the grounds by road and rail but it also includes other guidelines to make the fans’ day more enjoyable including a list of welcoming pubs that away fans normally frequent.
The book is also illustrated throughout with brand new up-to-date colour photos of all the 116 venues including the new White Hart Lane, home to Tottenham Hotspur who played at Wembley while the stadium was being built.
Author Duncan Adams is a Birmingham City Supporter and member of the exclusive 92 Club having travelled some 25,000 miles to visit every Premier and Football League ground to watch a competitive match.
A hat-trick of high-profile football books – Football Grounds A Fans’ Guide 2018/19; Gareth Southgate – From Zero to Hero; and Harry Kane – Golden Boy – are being released by G2 in August to tie-in with the start of the new season. Priced at £12.99 for the annual guide and £9.99 for the biographies of the England manager and captain, the titles are already available as Ebooks via Amazon or through this site. Hot on their heels will be England Players’ Records 1872-2018 (£30) by football historian Graham Betts who has included all the player statistics from the recent FIFA World Cup in Russia.
G2 Entertainment is one of the country’s leading publishers of sport and special interest books with a catalogue of more than 300 titles. The company’s flagship series is the ‘little book’ range of gift books which have sold more than a million copies across more than 150 different titles; while sports biographies featuring the likes of Harry Kane, Gareth Southgate, Ian Holloway, Alastair Cook and Jordan Henderson have also been hugely popular around the world. The company also publishes the Rugby World Yearbook, the Football Grounds Guide and the PFA Players’ Records annuals.
The company sells and distributes its own special interest DVDs including fitness programmes from Diana Moran, the Green Goddess, as well as world number one golfer Rory McIlroy. G2 also owns the country’s only independent cricket web-site, cricshop.com, and runs an iconic T-shirts business in an exclusive arrangement with Amazon.
Ian Darler, head groundsman at Cambridge United’s Abbey Stadium for 40 years, looks back on an eventful career in his autobiography, Life’s a Pitch, published by G2 this summer. From an apprenticeship that kindled his love affair with the turf to welcoming the world’s biggest football club to his stadium, Ian has met every challenge head-on, and encountered some of the greatest names in the sport along the way. He’s won just about every award the green-keeping industry has to offer, managed his stadium through tempestuous and terrific times and dealt with as many life-and-death situations as some paramedics. While turning out the kind of surface players dream of, he’s rubbed shoulders with some of football’s funniest characters, crossed swords with the occasional manager and coped with catastrophes that would have floored a lesser mortal. But Ian also talks bravely about the life-threatening incident that plunged him into a very dark place, and sheds light on the reasons why he works tirelessly to raise money for good causes.Throughout the book, men who have come to value Ian’s skill and devotion pay tribute to a man who, besides showing peerless skill as a groundsman, has shouldered the burden of two other roles: those of stadium manager and matchday safety officer. With a foreword by England legend and former Cambridge United manager Roy MacFarland, the trade paperback is priced at £12.99.
A hat-trick of high-profile football books – Football Grounds A Fans’ Guide 2018/19; Gareth Southgate – From Zero to Hero; and Harry Kane – Golden Boy – are being released by G2 in August to tie-in with the start of the new season. Priced at £12.99 for the annual guide and £9.99 for the biographies of the England manager and captain, the titles are already available as Ebooks via Amazon or through this site. Hot on their heels will be England Players’ Records 1872-2018 (£30) by football historian Graham Betts who has included all the player statistics from the recent FIFA World Cup in Russia.