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General Category => Altrincham FC First Team => Topic started by: baldrick on June 28, 2007, 04:05:32 PM
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Has anyone ever heard of Mark Harris? Apparently he wrote a book about Altrincham FC called Kingdom Come (1995ish) I have been looking for a copy but i can't find it anywhere. Can anyone help?
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Former Chairman of Alty and now a Director of Witton Albion.
The Alty Club Shop may have a dusty copy lurking in their archives?
The author himself still resides in Timperley....so perhaps he might have a spare copy?
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The author himself still resides in Timperley....so perhaps he might have a spare copy?
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He'd even sign it, I'd guess for a small donation to a certain other club in Cheshire who play in a similar kit to our own ;)
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I'm not really into books but this one sounds good. 18 hours from extinction. This club is the footballing equivalent of a cat (9 lives)
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Comes up on E-bay now and again.
Try Sportspages, the London shop had a couple last time I was in.
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I managed to get a copy on ebay a while back. If all else fails you can certainly borrow mine.
Best part of the book is Brian Flynn's 'honest' appraisals of the squad. e.g. Simon Burton - innocuous on his debut, dreadful 10 days later at Northwich and thankfully never seen again. Or Dave Martindale who was described in just 2 words: truly dreadful! Or Leroy May: Living in Wolverhampton and not being able to drive was always going to be a problem.
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sounds good myt try n find it
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Sports Pages went bust a few years ago, sadly, used to be the first place I visited when up in Manchester. I went past the London shop the other day and I think it's now a shoe shop :o( Was really good in Manchester, particularly on a match day (Alty playing away obviously) had a good atmosphere just to browse through all the unusual and often signed books. They had a blackboard keeping up with the latest scores of local Manchester clubs by the till. I never left the shop without spending quite a lot.........
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Didn't know they'd ceased trading, shame. Showss how long since I've been in then doesn't it!
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Bizarrely found a copy at the club the other day they definetley have a few copies left but as you know it will be at a premium, if your about this weekend at the club say saturday I will be able to pull this secret copy out and obviously hand the donation to the appropriate people at the club.
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I'm waiting for the call to collect my season ticket. As soon as they get them in i will be up there.
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God knows where my copy went, I do however remember running across the pitch at Welling to collect it from Mark Harris who was sitting in the posh seats at the San Siro of the South.