Simon Inglis
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Simon Inglis is a British writer and broadcaster, most notably about football and stadiums.
Inglis was born in Birmingham and is currently editor of the Played in Britain series on sporting heritage, published by English Heritage.
In December 2005 he was described as an "iconoclastic historian" and "a national treasure who must be encouraged at all costs". His recent illustrated biography of the Scottish football ground designer Archibald Leitch, Engineering Archie, was runner up in the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award 2005.
[edit] Selected bibliography
- Soccer In The Dock ISBN 0-00-218162-2
- League football and the men who made it : the official centenary history of the Football League, 1888-1988 ISBN 0-00-218242-4
- Football Grounds of England and Wales ISBN 0-00-218189-4
- Football Grounds of Britain ISBN 0-00-218426-5
- Villa Park, 100 years ISBN 0-946866-43-0
- The Football Grounds of Europe ISBN 0-00-218305-6
- Sightlines: A Stadium Odyssey ISBN 0-224-05968-8
- Played in Manchester : the architectural heritage of a city at play (Played in Britain Series) ISBN 1-873592-78-7
- Engineering Archie: Archibald Leitch - Football Ground Designer (Played in Britain Series) ISBN 1-85074-918-3
- A Load of Old Balls (Played in Britain series) ISBN 0-9547445-2-7
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