Tinpot: Football's Forgotten Tournaments… from the Anglo Italian to Zenith Data Systems Cup

Today's football tournaments seem to have been with us forever. They are the survivors - the bright ideas that quickly caught on. Tinpot recalls the strange and forgotten competitions that sparked into life before shuffling off their mortal coil. It tells their stories, giving them the spotlight they deserve.

"A wealth of entertaining stories... Simon Turner has bravely wandered into untrod territory with his exploration of these weird match-ups and unearthed a vault of yarns which will surely earn the teller a round or two in the local."

Tinpot is the story of football''s lost tournaments: the strange and forgotten competitions that sparked into life before shuffling off their mortal coil. The book tells their stories, giving them the spotlight they deserve.

It''s time for something different. It''s time to go somewhere new. It''s time to wander off the highways of football history and see where long-discarded paths lead.

England''s major football tournaments seem to have been with us forever. The FA Cup stretches back over 150 years, while the Football League is the oldest competition of its kind in the world. They are the survivors - the bright ideas that quickly caught on. Yet, behind these successes lie countless failed experiments. But they still have their stories to tell.

• | Author: Simon Turner
• | Publisher: Pitch Publishing Ltd
• | Publication Date: Aug 05, 2024
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• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-13: 9781801507417
• | ISBN-10: 1801507414