A collection of lyrical sweet-nothings whispered to club shops, floodlights, outfield players in goal and 47 other reminders of why we love football.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Daniel Gray is a writer, broadcaster and magazine editor from York. He presents the When Saturday Comes podcast and has published a host of critically acclaimed books on football and social history, including The Silence of the Stands which was shortlisted at the Sunday Times Sports Book Awards 2023. @d_gray_writer
Inhaltsangabe
Preface: Or, finding some things to love 1 Seeing a ground from the train 2 Watching an away end erupt 3 Getting the fixture list 4 Club shops 5 Saturday, 3pm 6 Spotting a fellow supporter elsewhere 7 Listening to the results in a car 8 Ball hitting bar 9 Pre-match routines 10 The first day of the season 11 Slide tackles in mud 12 Watching youth games in the park 13 Carrying on regardless 14 Belonging 15 Fat players 16 Jeering Passes that go out of play 17 Catering vans 18 Going with Dad 19 Jimmy Armfield's voice 20 Headers 21 Floodlights 22 Talking to an old man about football 23 Visiting a ground for the first time 24 Physiotherapist 'races' 25 Local lads 'coming through' 26 Sunday score pages 27 Shirts on a line 28 Defensive walls and drop-balls 29 Club eccentrics 30 Losing 31 Watching in bad weather 32 My daughter listening at the window 33 Singing 34 Brackets in scorelines 35 Standing on a terrace 36 When the ball goes in the crowd 37 Knowing where you are 38 Footballese 39 Time-wasting 40 Being at a junction station on matchday 41 Collectors 42 Football towns 43 Striking up a football conversation on a social occasion 44 Solid fixtures 45 Club nicknames 46 The 'hectic Christmas schedules' 47 Outfield players in goal 48 Seeing a team bus 49 Watching people get player autographs 50 The last day of the season Acknowledgements
Preface: Or, finding some things to love 1 Seeing a ground from the train 2 Watching an away end erupt 3 Getting the fixture list 4 Club shops 5 Saturday, 3pm 6 Spotting a fellow supporter elsewhere 7 Listening to the results in a car 8 Ball hitting bar 9 Pre-match routines 10 The first day of the season 11 Slide tackles in mud 12 Watching youth games in the park 13 Carrying on regardless 14 Belonging 15 Fat players 16 Jeering Passes that go out of play 17 Catering vans 18 Going with Dad 19 Jimmy Armfield's voice 20 Headers 21 Floodlights 22 Talking to an old man about football 23 Visiting a ground for the first time 24 Physiotherapist 'races' 25 Local lads 'coming through' 26 Sunday score pages 27 Shirts on a line 28 Defensive walls and drop-balls 29 Club eccentrics 30 Losing 31 Watching in bad weather 32 My daughter listening at the window 33 Singing 34 Brackets in scorelines 35 Standing on a terrace 36 When the ball goes in the crowd 37 Knowing where you are 38 Footballese 39 Time-wasting 40 Being at a junction station on matchday 41 Collectors 42 Football towns 43 Striking up a football conversation on a social occasion 44 Solid fixtures 45 Club nicknames 46 The 'hectic Christmas schedules' 47 Outfield players in goal 48 Seeing a team bus 49 Watching people get player autographs 50 The last day of the season Acknowledgements
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Each is a precision-tooled delight… even apparently obvious subjects are described with such lyricism that the everyday is routinely transformed into the sublime… here is a book that contains nothing but pure, unadulterated joy
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