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"Newcastle United - A Nostalgic Look at a Century of the Club" by Paul Joannou is out now in hardback. RRP: £18.99, ISBN: 978 1 84425 952 6
NUST have 3 copies as prizes for our competition. All you have to do is email your name and member number or address to comps@nust.org.uk. The first 3 entries drawn out of the hat after the closing date of Sunday 25th April will win a hardback copy. Geography is no limit as we will post the prize to wherever you are.
Malcolm Macdonald and Paul Joannou will be signing copies of When Football was Football Newcastle United
ON: Saturday 24th April TIME: 11am – 12.30pm
AT: Waterstones, Newcastle Emerson Chambers, Blackett Street, Newcastle. NE1 7JF
Some background to the book :
We remember a time When Football Was Football and look at Newcastle United’s colourful past – as eventful then as it is at St James’ Park even now.
This is a unique and superbly presented collection of photographs of Newcastle United Football Club from the very early days until 1992, freshly selected from tens of thousands of images in the "Daily Mirror's" extensive archive. These evocative pictures, many of them previously unpublished, chart the rise of one of the most talked about football clubs in the English game.
It isn’t about the modern era of football; all-seated stadia, corporate hospitality with champagne and prawn sandwiches, of superstar prima-donnas, foreign imports and football as a ‘commercial product’. This is a nostalgic look at Newcastle United Football Club in the days before the Premier League and the huge media circus fed by satellite television.
Take a look back at the halcyon days of our national game; the ‘good old days’ before billionaire owners from around the globe took control, with astronomical transfer fees and sky-high player wages. It’s about terracing and passion, Bovril at half-time, peanut sellers around the ground, muddy pitches and orange match-balls.
This book brings to life the nostalgia of a colourful history, from the early days and the Edwardian Masters of the 1900s; the Title and Cup winning sides of the '20s and ‘30s which had some fabulous characters like Wee Hughie Gallacher, then to the Toon’s immediate post-war success with a star-studded line-up with the likes of Milburn and Mitchell.
Moving on through the years and to the treble of Wembley victories, European football – and more silverware! Into the ‘70s and further Wembley action with larger than life characters like Supermac - while following that came the emergence of the Geordie lads Waddle, Beardsley and Gazza and of course the coming of the Messiah – Kevin Keegan. Keegan captivated Tyneside as the club was transformed at the turn of the ‘90s and started on what was to be a headlining roller-coaster ride. It's all here.
The author Paul Joannou has for over 25 years been Newcastle United’s official historian. First watching the Black ’n’ Whites during the early ‘60s, he has written several books on the club, including the acclaimed 480-page centenary history, United: The First 100 Years & More.
Also included in Paul’s titles are stirring books on the Toon’s famous Centre-forwards, Shirt of Legends, and on the home of the equally celebrated Toon Army, Fortress St James. He has built up a definitive library on the club’s history and also contributes to the club’s matchday programme, monthly magazines, DVD and website features. Paul holds the club archive and is the ultimate source of knowledge on the club’s lively past and present, from the earliest pioneer days on Victorian Tyneside to the Newcastle United soap-opera of today.
