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Keith Farnsworth

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Born

in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, The United Kingdom

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Sports, History, Biography

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Left school at 15 with no qualifications, and worked in various positions, mainly clerical, before finally fulfilling his ambition to become a journalist when he joined the Sheffield Telegraph in the early 1960s. He later had a five-year spell as sports editor before quitting in the late 1970s to become editor of an industrial magazine (Quality). From 1985 until 2003 he worked as a freelance, mainly as a football writer for the Daily Telegraph, and published 17 books on football and other local subjects (company histories, biographies, etc). He also published an autobiography, A Sheffield Boy. He retired in 2003, and now devotes his time to reading, studying family history, and painting in watercolour or acrylics. He has compiled a Who WasW ...more

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Average rating: 4.3 · 27 ratings · 2 reviews · 19 distinct works

	Sheffield Football, A History: Volume 2 1961-1995 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1995	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wednesday! : the history of Sheffield's oldest professional football club 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1982 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Sheffield Boy 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1999 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Blades and The Owls: A pictorial history of the Sheffield derby matches 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1995	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	More Images of Sheffield it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1994 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sheffield Wednesday: A Complete Record 1867-1987 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1987	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Images of Sheffield 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 1993	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Autobiography of a Soccer Legend really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2000	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sheffield's Eastenders it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1987	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wednesday Every Day of the Week it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1998	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Most of Nora Ephron

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The Life and Times of Herbert Chapman

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Keith’s Quotes

“I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.”
― J.B. Priestley

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“Writing enlarges the landscape of the mind. ”
― V.S. Pritchett

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“To say that these men paid their shillings to watch twenty-two hirelings kick a ball is merely to say that a violin is wood and catgut, that Hamlet is so much paper and ink.”
― J.B. Priestley

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“During dinner at the Dersinghams in "Angel Pavement"...
"Do you ever watch rugger, Golspie?" Mr Dersingham demanded down the table.
"What, rugby? Haven't see a match for years," replied Mr Golspie. "Prefer the other kind when I do watch one."
Major Trape raised his eyebrows, "What, you a soccah man? Not this professional stuff? Don't tell me you like that."
"What's the matter with it?"
"Oh, come now! I mean, you can't possibly --I mean it's a dirty business, selling fellahs for money and so on, very unsporting.”
― J.B. Priestley, Angel Pavement

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“The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.”
― J.B. Priestley