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  • This Ayr United Thing - More Iliad than Illyria
    Duncan Carmichael
    Club Historian Duncan Carmichael reflects on the curious consequences that supporting a local football club will have.Fifty-five years of writing programme notes have done nothing to diminish Duncan’s enthusiasms: practicing stoicism, patience, emotional control in times of stress, perfect knowledge of transport timetables, motorway toilets and recommended fish-and-chiperies.Ge...
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    33,97 €

  • Old Lady Somerset
    Duncan Carmichael
    Old Lady Somerset is a fiercely stubborn old bird. In her lifetime she has successfully resisted five attempts at eviction. Within living memory there are two aborted attempts to relocate to Heathfield. Outwith living memory there are failed attempts to move to Carrick Street Oval (1894) and Dam Park (1914 and again in 1919). The lessons of history have been learned. It is not ...
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    22,18 €

  • Ayr United - The Oddest Matches
    Duncan Carmichael
    Football has evolved on a massive scale. Transfer fees have reached the hundreds of millions and if the growth remains unchecked the sport will reach imponderable heights. The global pandemic of 2020 provided a stark illustration of the game’s sense of priority. Mounting death rates failed to stifle the rapidly convened debates about the practicalities of getting football back ...
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    27,93 €

  • Ayr United - The Compendium
    Duncan Carmichael
    “There are lies, damned lies and statistics.” In the world of football the concept of argument is woven into the fabric of the game and Duncan Carmichael views this as a positive. After all, the game cannot die for as long as it is being discussed. Why? Who? Where? When? How many? Statistics have the power to solve an argument or to fuel it further. Here the aim is to provide a...
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    23,78 €

  • Nine Titles
    Duncan Carmichael
    Second Division Champions, 1911/12; Second Division Champions, 1912/13; Second Division Champions, 1927/28; Second Division Champions, 1936/37; Second Division Champions, 1958/59; Second Division Champions, 1965/66; Second Division Champions, 1987/88; Second Division Champions, 1996/97; League One Champions, 2017/18. That says it all. ...
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    22,69 €

  • Ayr United F.C. Managers
    Duncan Carmichael
    Did you know that a former Ayr United great was the first Briton to be a football manager in Argentina? Did you know that he wasn’t the only Ayr United manager to have been contracted to a South American club? Did you know that a former Ayr United manager gave first team debuts to such luminaries as Gareth Bale and Theo Walcott? There are facts aplenty here but the overall purp...
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    19,10 €

  • Ayr United at War
    Duncan Carmichael
    The centenary, in 2014, of the outbreak of the Great War was the prompt to complete this study of the social and playing impact on Ayr United - and the clubs in the family tree - of the Boer War, the Great War, the Second World War and Afghanistan. The stories of the Ayr FC club doctor stationed at a concentration camp in the Boer War and the old player who carried out a civil...
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    21,96 €