Heart & Soul: A Tribute to the Game and Its People by Robert Shaw

Robert Shaw was raised in a Tasmanian football family. After a lifelong association with the game as a player and coach at the highest levels, Robert has produced a 'labour of love', a passionate tribute to the unsung heroes and 'grassroots' of Aussie Rules.

This book is brimful of interviews with the game's great characters and stories of footy's legends and their deeds:

• The Fitzroy property stewards who hid the 1944 flag so it wouldn't go to Brisbane
• What Michael Long and Dean Wallis told their teammates behind closed doors before the 2001 Grand Final v Brisbane
• The young prospector who carried a gun to guard his gold and went on to become a VFL star
• The mean streets of Collingwood and Fitzroy
• The toughest league of them all on the West Coast of Tasmania where football is played on THE GRAVEL
• The wharfies of Port Adelaide
• The champion player who stayed loyal to his club for over 200 games without ever playing a final
• Shaw shares his heartache as his club of birth, Sandy Bay F.C. plays its last game

And so much more...

"This is a real Australian story about an Australian family...the football family...Please enjoy" From the Foreword by Kevin Sheedy

Robert Shaw played for Sandy Bay in Tasmania as a 16 year old. He was recruited by Essendon at 17 and played 51 games before returning to coach in Tassie. He went on to coach Fitzroy and Adelaide and is currently assistant to Kevin Sheedy at Essendon.

Genres: Nonfiction - Australia - Sport - AFL - Football  
Condition: Good
Published: 2004 by BAS Publishing
Pages: 324
ISBN: 1920910298
Weight: 700g