Playing The Game

Mike Snell

ISBN 10: 1918264449 / ISBN 13: 9781918264449

Published by PN Books, GB, 2025

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Playing The Game
• Publisher: PN Books, GB
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1918264449
• ISBN 13: 9781918264449
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 2nd ed.
• Condition: New
• Dimensions: 13.97W x 2.9H x 21.59D centimeters 13.97 centimeters width by 2.9 centimeters height by 21.59 centimeters depth
• Weight: 644 grams

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Synopsis

Who would win a penalty shoot-out between an elephant and the captain of Aylesbury United?

Playing the Game reveals the answer - just one of the astonishing stories from the football club's early history, from its foundation in 1897 to the post-war years.

For the first time author Mike Snell divulges the fascinating tales behind the players, the matches, the rivalries, and the trophies, as football fever started to sweep the country and the game became part of the national consciousness.

Learn the circumstances and characters behind Aylesbury United's formation, the team that delivered the club's first silverware, the players that never returned from the two World Wars, as well as the two brothers who came to England to escape the holocaust and went on to represent both the Ducks and the USA as internationals - and much more.

This book also includes individual player and team statistics from formation to the start of the Second World War.

About the Author

Mike Snell is a retired corporate communications specialist with more than 40 years' experience in journalism, public relations and public affairs internationally. He retired in 2013 and is now a Trustee of the Cancer Care and Haematology Fund - a charity that supports people being treated for cancer and blood conditions by Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust.He has been a supporter of Aylesbury United since he came to Aylesbury in the mid-1990s and for 10 years was their match photographer. He is also vice-chair of the Club's supporters' trust, 21st Century Ducks. Mike is married with two sons and lives in Stone, near Aylesbury.