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ROTHERHAM UNITED F.C.

 

The First Finalists
The story of Rotherham United
and the first ever League Cup Final

 

By Adrian Booth

Not even the most fanatical supporter of Rotherham United Football Club would claim that the 'Millers' are numbered amongst the country's most successful teams. Yet the team reached the final of a major national cup competition, the inaugural Football League Cup in season 1960/61, against Aston Villa. It is getting on for half a century since the Millers famously battled through to that final and, in the long intervening period, no Rotherham United side has ever come close to emulating that great feat. It was a wonderful campaign and this book outlines aspects of football in that era, provides details of the competition itself and Rotherham United's run to the final, and profiles the sixteen Millers players who were involved. A riot of 1950s and 1960s nostalgia, 6d programmes, mud and haircuts, a time when a foreigner in the team came from the next county.

Paperback

ISBN: 1-903266-74-2

Price: £9.95

 

 

 

 

 

 
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