Stand Your Ground : Life & Football

Kevin Sheedy

ISBN 10: 1405038950 / ISBN 13: 9781405038959

Published by Macmillan Australia, Sydney, 2008

About this Item

Fine First edition hardccover in Near Fine d/j showing very light shelfwear to wraps. SIGNED by Sheedy on the half-title page + inscription reading "To John 'Love Life '- "Spirit, Passion + Loyalty" Create Success". 416pp.

Seller Inventory # 007754

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Stand Your Ground : Life & Football
• Publisher: Macmillan Australia, Sydney
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1405038950
• ISBN 13: 9781405038959
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Weight: 0.83 kilograms
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

There is only one Kevin Sheedy, a man who occupies a unique position in Australian sport - plumber, self-described grubby little back-pocket, legendary coach, master strategist, mad professor, raconteur, world-wide promoter of the game of Australian Rules. Stand Your Ground is a journey from the working-class heart of Melbourne to every corner of Australia and beyond, including those well-known football Dublin, Kentucky and the Beverly Wilshire in Hollywood, a trip that only Kevin Sheedy could take. From his descriptions of a young boy growing up in the inner suburbs of Melbourne in the 1950s, through to his playing days at Richmond and his ground-breaking 27 years as coach of Essendon, and finally to his commitment to take Australia's own game to the world, Sheeds' book is a work of history, memoir and sporting drama as fascinating and multi-faceted as the man himself.--Provided by publisher.