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This Ayr United Thing - More Iliad than Illyria
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| Duncan Carmichael |
| ISBN 9781849212625 |
| Paperback 432 pages |
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| Published 20 September 2025
UK Price £18.95
US Price $30.00 |
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.
Generations of Carmichaels have found their lives rearranged by fixtures and foul weather, and here Duncan blends family reminiscences with reports of battles won and lost on a journey featuring glorious defeats and routine victories, but as yet no happiness at the still-elusive end.
Duncan's databases and archives of epic proportions are the accurate grounding for a fascinating review of one club's mesmeric hold on a typical Saturday foot-soldier.
With 84 black-and-white illustrations.
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Duncan Carmichael is the author of 15 books on Ayr United. With his wife Carol, son David, and daughter Jill he has spent rather a lot of money on the fruitless search for a football equivalent of Shakespearean happiness.
Other titles by Duncan Carmichael and published by Kennedy & Boyd include Ayr United On This Day; Ayr United - The Compendium; Ayr United - The Oddest Matches; and Nine Titles. Ayr United triumphs.
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© Kennedy & Boyd, an imprint of Zeticula Ltd., Unit 13, 44-46 Morningside Road, Edinburgh, EH10 4BF, Scotland
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