This Ayr United Thing - More Iliad than Illyria

Duncan Carmichael

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English

Kennedy & Boyd
20 September 2025

Cultural studies; Sociology: customs & traditions; Football (Soccer, Association football)

Club Historian Duncan Carmichael reflects on the curious consequences that supporting a local football club will have.

Fifty-five years of writing programme notes have done nothing to diminish Duncan's enthusiasms: practicing stoicism, patience, emotional control in times of stress, perfect knowledge of transport timetables, motorway toilets and recommended fish-and-chiperies.

Generations of Carmichaels have found their lives rearranged by fixtures and foul weather, and here Duncan blends family reminiscences with reports of battles won and lost on a journey featuring glorious defeats and routine victories, but as yet no happiness at the still-elusive end.

Duncan's databases and archives of epic proportions are the accurate grounding for a fascinating review of one club's mesmeric hold on a typical Saturday foot-soldier.

By: Duncan Carmichael
Imprint: Kennedy & Boyd
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 33mm
Weight: 948g
ISBN: 9781849212618
ISBN 10: 1849212619
Pages: 432
Publication Date: 20 September 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Duncan Carmichael is the author of 15 books on Ayr United. With his wife Carol, son David, and daughter Jill he has spent rather a lot of money on the fruitless search for a football equivalent of Shakespearean happiness.