| Book | The Town Hero |
| Poetry by | Dannie Abse, Alan Bold, Michael Foot, Ted Hughes, Tom Leonard, Tom McGrath, Adrian Mitchell, Peter Moloney, Thomas Moult, Philip Oakes, Frank Richards, James T.R. Ritchie, Alan Ross |
| Editor | Stephen F. Kelly |
| Copyright Holder (Introduction/Prologue) | Stephen F. Kelly |
| Publisher | Reed Consumer Books Limited |
| Contributing Writer | Arnold Bennett, Danny Blanchflower, Michael Calvin, Albert Camus, Hunter Davies, Pete Davies, Terence Delaney, Peter Doherty, Eamon Dunphy, John Fairgrieve, Ray Galton, Alan Simpson, Brian Glover, Geoffrey Green, Willis Hall, Clifford Hanley, Roy Hattersley, Dave Hill, Jimmy Hill, Brian James (2), Richard Jobson, Ryszard Kapuściński, Dan Kavanagh, David Lacey, Denis Law, Hugh McIlvanney, Arthur Hopcraft, John Mackenzie, J.P.W. Mallalieu, George Orwell, Harold Pinter, John Boynton Priestley, Jack Rosenthal, Mike Rowbottom, Sandy Anderson, John Arlott, Cliff Bastin, Bryon Butler, H.D. Davies, Tom Finney, Brian Glanville, Jerry Weinstein, Bob Holmes, Wilf Mannion, David Miller (5), John Moynihan, Ivan Sharpe, Frank Swift, Nick Walsh, Ian Wooldridge, A.J. Ayer, Alan Bold, Michael Foot, William Hunter, Bernard Joy, Frank Keating, Guy Mills, Phil Soar, Martin Tyler, Simon Barnes (2), Richard Brentnall, Maurice Edelston, Stephen F. Kelly, William Leith, Joe Lovejoy, Michael Parkinson (3), Kenneth Wolstenholme, Cynthia Bateman, Stephen Bierley, Brian Clarke (2), Guy Hodgson, Ken Jones, John Lyall, Barry Norman, Tony Pawson, John Harding, Alan Sillitoe, Colin Ward (2), Colin Welland, Gordon Williams, Nick Hornby, Steve Anderson, Ian Archer, H. E. Bates, Neil Duncanson, Vittorio Pozzo, Ferenc Puskás, Alex Spillius, Tony Blair, Derick Allsop, Giles Smith, Richard Williams, Sue Mott, Paul Simpson (2), Ian Ridley, Matt Tench, Jim White |
| Cover Art by | Allsport, Claudio Villa |
| Imprint | Hamlyn |
| Cover photo | Hulton Getty Picture Collection Limited |
| Cover/Jacket Design by | Vivek Bhatia |
| First Published by | Kingswood Press |
| Copyright Holder | Reed Consumer Books Limited |
| About/Subject | Football (Soccer) |
| Format | Paperback |
| Language | English |
| Location | London, UK |
| This Edition Published | 1997 |
| Copyright | 1997 |
| First Published In Hardcover | 1992 |
| First Published In Paperback | 1993 |
| Reprinted | 1993 |
| Reprinted | 1994 |
| Reprinted | 1995 |
| Reprinted | 1996 |
| Pages / Font | 546 pages / ITC Galliard |
| ISBN | 0600 59394 0 |
| Barcode | 9 780600 593942 |
| Price | UK £12.99 |
| Chapters | Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part 1 - The Game
Part 2 - The Matches
Part 3 - The Teams
Part 4 - The Players
Part 5 - The Managers
Part 6 - The Fans
Part 7 - The Anguish
Part 8 - The Verse
Part 9 - The Renaissance
Acknowledgements
Author Index |
| Notes | A compendium of abridged texts, verse and other writing on the subject of football. Originally published as The Kingswood Book Of Football. |
