Pointless (book)

Pointless, subtitled "A season with Britain's worst football team" by Jeff Connor,[1] is a book published in 2006 about East Stirlingshire F.C..

In the summer of 2004, Jeff Connor, a sports journalist, was given access to East Stirlingshire, Britain's then least successful senior football club. During the previous season they had embarked on a record 25 match losing run.[2]

The Sunday Herald's Tom Shields wrote, "A team whose ambition is to finish second bottom of Scotland's senior leagues may be pointless but Mr Connor's oeuvre is not. There is much humour and poignancy in his observations of life in the boondocks of Scottish football."[3]

References

  1. ^ 2006 Headline Book Publishing ( London ), ISBN 0 7553 1352 6
  2. ^ Sky Sports Football Year Book 2004-5, Rollin G & Rollin J Headline p45 (London) ISBN 0 7553 1310 0
  3. ^ "Celtic fans ain't out of Europe yet TOM SHIELDS' SPORTS DIARY | Sunday Herald, The Newspaper | Find Articles at BNET". Findarticles.com. 2005-08-07. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4156/is_/ai_n14851348. Retrieved 2011-02-11.