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Heroes & Villains => Villa Memories => Topic started by: wittonwarrior on May 07, 2015, 10:34:59 PM

Title: First 100 Years Book
Post by: wittonwarrior on May 07, 2015, 10:34:59 PM: Where can I buy a new copy?
Title: Re: First 100 Years Book
Post by: PeterWithesShin on May 07, 2015, 10:37:10 PM: It's been out of print for years.
Title: Re: First 100 Years Book
Post by: flybo on May 07, 2015, 11:38:24 PM: my first and best Villa history book love it and still have a copy
Title: Re: First 100 Years Book
Post by: FrankyH on May 08, 2015, 05:47:41 AM: Quote from: wittonwarrior on May 07, 2015, 10:34:59 PM
Where can I buy a new copy?

This one..

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Aston-Villa-First-Hundred-1874-1974/dp/B004G6E06Y/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1431060365&sr=8-2&keywords=aston+villa+peter+morris

Don't think you will find a new copy
Title: Re: First 100 Years Book
Post by: dave.woodhall on May 08, 2015, 11:20:53 AM: Quote from: flybo on May 07, 2015, 11:38:24 PM
my first and best Villa history book love it and still have a copy

Sorry?
Title: Re: First 100 Years Book
Post by: flybo on May 08, 2015, 12:33:23 PM: why sorry?
Title: Re: First 100 Years Book
Post by: dave.woodhall on May 08, 2015, 12:34:47 PM: Quote from: flybo on May 08, 2015, 12:33:23 PM
why sorry?

Quote from: flybo on May 07, 2015, 11:38:24 PM
my first and best Villa history book love it and still have a copy

I take a dim view.
Title: Re: First 100 Years Book
Post by: flybo on May 08, 2015, 12:40:15 PM: the first hundred years is classic
Title: Re: First 100 Years Book
Post by: dave.woodhall on May 08, 2015, 12:46:54 PM: Quote from: flybo on May 08, 2015, 12:40:15 PM
the first hundred years is classic

Hmmmm.

Seriously, it contains some great and evocative writing but there are serious errors.
Title: Re: First 100 Years Book
Post by: Flamingo Lane on May 08, 2015, 02:25:25 PM: Quote from: dave.woodhall on May 08, 2015, 12:46:54 PM
Quote from: flybo on May 08, 2015, 12:40:15 PM
the first hundred years is classic

Hmmmm.

Seriously, it's contains some great and evocative writing but there are some serious errors.

Any examples?
Title: Re: First 100 Years Book
Post by: cdbearsfan on May 08, 2015, 07:27:03 PM: Isn't Archie Hunter's brother supposed to be present at his deathbed? Despite the fact that said brother, Andy, was already dead at the time.
Title: Re: First 100 Years Book
Post by: dave.woodhall on May 10, 2015, 07:47:08 PM: Quote from: cdbullyweefan on May 08, 2015, 07:27:03 PM
Isn't Archie Hunter's brother supposed to be present at his deathbed? Despite the fact that said brother, Andy, was already dead at the time.

He'd died four years earlier, in Australia. The book also says that Tommy Barber was killed in World War One when he went on to play for Celtic and Alex Massie resigned as manager in 1950 when it was twelve months earlier. This one was particularly odd as it was only a few years before Morris's original book came out so he would have been writing from memory, and he omits to mention that we went fifteen months without a manager.