Pointless
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Pointless, subtitled "A season with Britain's worst football team" by Jeff Connor, is a book published in 2006 about East Stirlingshire F.C.
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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.
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."
East Stirlingshire F.C.
East Stirlingshire Football Club is a Scottish football club originating in Falkirk. Founded in 1880, originally as Bainsford Britannia, the club changed to their current name a year later in 1881...
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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.
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."