A brilliant history of the club I love. Passion, pride and pain - it’s all here * Alan Shearer *
No-one writes with as much flair, authority and sly wit about the North and Northerners as well as Dan Jackson. With this book, he has distilled many of his abiding passions inspired by his native North East - its people, culture and landscape, its military, political and industrial heritage - into a tale that encompasses all those things and more… a loving, forensic, engaging history of his beloved Newcastle United. Even those of us cordially indifferent to the fortunes of the Magpies will find much to savour in this superb book * Stuart Maconie *
This is more than a book about a football club - it’s a superb history of a city, a people and a corner of England that’s too often overlooked. Dan Jackson takes us into the beating heart of industrial Newcastle to trace the story of its beloved football team, from shipbuilding fans to Saudi owners. This is an outstandingly rich, entertaining and thoughtful book, written with the passion of a man who loves his football and with the forensic eye of a great historian * Dominic Sandbrook *
Not just an outstanding portrait of a club and its history, but also of a city, a region and even the people of the Geordie Nation * Duncan Hamilton *

Dan Jackson is a founding member of the Northumbria WW1 Commemoration Project, which received the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service. He is the author of Popular Opposition to Irish Home Rule in Edwardian Britain and has written for the New Statesman. Jackson has appeared on the BBC’s Making History and Who Do You Think You Are?.

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