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RADIO INTERVIEW ABOUT NEW STAGS BOOK
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12 OCT 2007
A new book about Mansfield Town FC has been published: Images of Sport: Mansfield Town Football Club, by Paul Taylor and Martin Shaw of the Stags Supporters Association Paul and Martin were interviewed on BBC Radio Nottingham on 12 Oct 2007. Click here to listen to the interview. -------------------- Audio interview with Paul and Martin from Mansfield 103.2 on 21 Sep 2007 will appear here -------------------- EARLIER STORY: 21 Sept 2007 A new book about Mansfield Town FC has just been published. Images of Sport: Mansfield Town Football Club, by Paul Taylor and Martin Shaw of the Stags Supporters Association, is a pictorial history of the club over the past 110 years. Included in this collection are team photos from every season possible since the club's formation in 1897, action shots of important goals and key games, player portraits, and photographs of the Field Mill stadium as it has been developed. Each photograph has its own detailed caption. 
Paul and Martin are also the joint authors of the History of Mansfield Town FC on the club's official website http://www.mansfieldtown.net. Images of Sport: Mansfield Town Football Club (ISBN 978 07524 4414 7), is published by Tempus, and is available now from the Field Mill club shop, and Mansfield Museum, priced £12.99. It will be available at WHSmith Mansfield from the end of next week. It is also available now direct from the publisher's website at http://www.tempus-publishing.com. Footnote: the publishers wish to apologise for a printing error on pages 126-127 of the book, where captions have been mixed up. Readers can download a copy of the correct pages here [to download: right click, save target as] (these pages are taken from the proof which was correct at the time the authors proof-read it) -------------------- Audio from Mansfield 103.2 on 21 Sep 2007 will appear here -------------------- New Stags book published CHAD.co.uk, 21 Sep 2007 By Tim Morriss IF you are a Stags' fan and like photographs, then a new book is just for you. Images of Sport: Mansfield Town Football Club is packed with photos from more than 100 years of Stags' history - from the pre-League years at the turn of the 20th century right through to modern day hero Richie Barker and the latest manager Billy Dearden. Each of the 200plus photographs - some published for the first time - has its own detailed caption as readers are taken along a journey into the football's club past and present through 128 fascinating pages. The book has been collated by Paul Taylor, Mansfield Town FC historian and honorary president of the Stags Supporters Association, and SSA committee member, SSA website co-ordinator and historian Martin Shaw. Included in the collection are team photos from every season possible since the club's formation in 1897, action shots of important goals and key games, player portraits, plus photographs of Field Mill as it has been developed. It is those team photos which were the inspiration for the book. Martin told Chad.co.uk: "On Stagsnet we have a collection of team photos from every season back to 1930, plus a few from years before that. "No other club has a website, official or unofficial, with such a photographic record. This was mentioned in a review in an away matchday programme, Tempus also picked up on it and asked if we were interested in publishing a book on the history of the Stags with the team photos. "Because we are absolutely mad, we said yes!" Remarkably Martin - who lives in Guildford and has a scrapbook collection of reports from every Stags game since the early 1930s - and Paul then completed the book in just seven working days, from start to finish. Martin added: "We already had a lot of the photographs, so we just needed to sit down and organise which ones we wanted to use, how we were going to structure the book and write the captions. "We both booked three lots of two days off work and worked solidly for those days to get it all written and collated. Then we spent a further day proof reading." Naturally, the collating of the book was built around Stags' games and the duo worked at the Mansfield home of Paul's mother. Paul added: "We tried to include images that would evoke fond memories of the Stags from whichever era is the reader's favourite." Images of Sport: Mansfield Town Football Club (ISBN 978 07524 4414 7), is published by Tempus, and is available now from the Field Mill club shop, and Mansfield Museum, priced £12.99. It will be available at WHSmith Mansfield from the end of next week. It is also available now direct from the publisher's website at http://www.tempus-publishing.com. The publishers wish to apologise for a printing error on pages 126-127 of the book, where captions have been mixed up. Readers can download a copy of the correct pages here. (These pages are taken from the proof which was correct at the time the authors proof-read it) --------------- EARLIER STORY: audio interview with the authors on 23 Feb 2007, while they were writing the book, from Sportstalk on Mansfield 103.2, here --------- LATER STORY: Winners of StagsWorld competition to win a copy of the new book: Images of Sport: Mansfield Town Football Club, by Paul Taylor and Martin Shaw were: Rob Stewart from Edinburgh Adam from Manchester The competition was run during StagsWorld commentary of the game against Dagenham on Saturday. The answers to the competition were: The Stags have had 4 league attendances at Field Mill below 2000 since the start of the 2000/2001 season, and none below 2000 since the start of the 2001/2002 season. ------------------ 29 Sep 2007 Interview with authors Paul Taylor and Martin Shaw at half time during Stagsworld commentary of the Dagenham game: here. |
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