Of Amos, 'Erbert & Friends
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Product details
- ISBN 9781916504226
- Format: Hardback
- Dimensions: 210 x 297mm
- Publication Date: 12 Apr 2019
- Publisher: JJMoffs Independent Book Publisher
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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Of Amos, `Erbert and Friends; Flying High with Huddersfield Town is a book in which the author combines the fiction of conversation with historical facts
to provide a fan’s eye view of a remarkable football club. It begins with the founding of Huddersfield Town in 1908, and its brave survival in a rugby league stronghold
(despite the dastardly endeavours of Leeds United to close the club down via what was close to being association football’s first ever franchise deal).
It describes the club’s halcyon years between the two World Wars; twenty years in which Huddersfield Town were `Thrice Champions’ of the Football League, runners up for the title on three occasions, won the FA Cup and appeared in a total of five finals; a period of success galvanised by football’s first ever great manager, Herbert Chapman, and overseen by the club’s visionary chairman, Sir Amos Brook Hirst.
The book also deals with some 75 years of post war `Town’ history; providing a fan’s eye view of various disasters and triumphs; all milestone events in a rollercoaster ride that has recently seen `The Terriers’ restored to English football’s top flight.
Born in Huddersfield on 15th October 1944, Andrew Pearce has been fortunate enough never to have been required to reside outside his hometown or to work outside West Yorkshire.
Educated at Huddersfield College and New College he left school in 1962 and trained as a Chartered Accountant with Messrs Armitage & Norton of Huddersfield.
Qualifying (and marrying) in 1968, Andrew was appointed a partner in the firm in 1976; and later with international firm, KPMG. This was in 1987 by which Andrew had become managing partner of A&N, Huddersfield. He now moved to the larger firm’s Leeds office in order to assume responsibility for KPMG’s national Building Society practice; and, in 1995, this led to him becoming Finance Director of Yorkshire Building Society, and transferring his base to their Bradford headquarters.
Retiring from full-time work in 2001, Andrew took up a non-executive directorship with Coventry Building Society the same year. He later became the Coventry’s deputy chairman before totally retiring from work in 2009.
Andrew has four sons and five grand-children and is happily married to his sweetheart from teenage years, Linda. Outside work and family his interests have tended to focus on a variety of sports and, in particular, football, cricket and golf.
He began writing `Of Amos, `Erbert and Friends – Flying High with Huddersfield Town’, his first, book in 2006.
