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Dreams and Songs to Sing

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Dreams and Songs to Sing

Dreams and Songs to Sing

A People's History of Liverpool FC from Shankly to Klopp
Alan McDougall, University of Guelph, Ontario
August 2025
Not yet published - available from August 2025
Hardback
9781009340236
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    Dreams and Songs to Sing is a unique people's history of the triumphs and tragedies of one of the biggest teams in sport. From Shankly to Klopp, Alan McDougall takes us on a global tour of Liverpool FC's history, viewed through the eyes of the people who've been there all along: the supporters. He weaves together interviews with fans from around the world, poignant farewells to Shankly, birthday cards to Michael Owen, letters from grieving Italians after Heysel, and eyewitness accounts of Hillsborough to tell the inseparable story of the club and the city. This is a history which crosses borders of class, gender, race, and nation, ranging well beyond the pitch but never forgetting the crowds and matches at the heart of it all. Rarely does sports writing have this much intelligence and soul, powerfully combining the personal with the universal, and the everyday with the epic.

    • Tells the history of Liverpool FC through the voices of its supporters
    • Draws on over 50 interviews with fans from around the world
    • The first history of Liverpool FC to incorporate the history of women's football

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    August 2025
    Hardback
    9781009340236
    364 pages
    229 × 152 mm
    50 b/w illus.
    Not yet published - available from August 2025

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    Contents

    Table of Contents

    • 1. Maidstone 1987: Dear Ian Rush
    • 2. Anfield 1906: A Home Worthy of Champions
    • 3. Chester 1946: Welcome to Liddellpool
    • 4. Huddersfield 1959: Enter Shankly
    • 5. London 1965: Bigger than the Beatles
    • 6. Liverpool 1974: Please Don't Go
    • 7. Rome 1977: Transalpino
    • 8. Toxteth 1981: Children of the Ghetto
    • 9. Brussels 1985: If this is Football, Let It Die
    • 10. Sheffield 1989: So Heavy is My Heart
    • 11. Scunthorpe 1994: Hidden Histories
    • 12. Istanbul 2005: Miracles Exist
    • 13. London 2010: Yanks Out (In)
    • 14. Paris 2022: Supporters in the Wild
    • 15. Parkdale 2024: Body in Toronto, Heart in Liverpool
    • List of Figures
    • Acknowledgements
    • Works Cited
    • Index.
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    • Alan McDougall , University of Guelph, Ontario

      Alan McDougall is a leading sports historian and a lifelong Liverpool fan. He is author of The People's Game: Football, State and Society in East Germany (2016) and Contested Fields: A Global History of Modern Football (2020).

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