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Following On: A Memoir of Teenage Obsession and Terrible Cricket

Autor Emma John
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 19 apr 2017
It's one thing to be 14 years old and a loser. It's one thing to be the class swot, and hopelessly infatuated with someone who doesn't know you exist. But what kind of teenager is besotted with an entire sports team - when the players are even bigger losers than she is?In 1993, while everyone else was learning Oasis lyrics and crushing on Kate Moss or Keanu, Emma John was obsessing over the England cricket team. She spent her free time making posters of the players she adored. She spent her pocket money on Panini stickers of them, and followed their progress with a single-mindedness that bordered on the psychopathic.The primary object of her affection: Michael Atherton, a boyishly handsome captain who promised to lead his young troops to glory. But what followed was one of the worst sporting streaks of all time - a decade of frustration, dismay and comically bungling performances that made the England cricket team a byword for British failure.Nearly a quarter of a century on, Emma John wants to know why she spent her teenage years defending such a bunch of no-hopers. She seeks out her childhood heroes with two questions: why did they never win? And why on earth did she love them so much?
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781472916891
ISBN-10: 1472916891
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.22 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Wisden
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Features new interviews with Michael Atherton, Alec Stewart, Phil Tufnell, Graham Thorpe, Mark Ramprakash, Dominic Cork, Jack Russell, John Crawley, Andy Caddick and others

Notă biografică

Emma John is a writer and editor on the Guardian and the Observer. She is a former deputy editor of Observer Sport Monthly and The Wisden Cricketer and in 2008 she was the first woman to win a Sports Journalism Award. She lives in north London and has been on the MCC waiting list for 17 years, six months and 21 days. Not that she's counting. @em_john

Recenzii

Deftly comic, wonderfully true, for anyone who has ever thought that England, chasing 600 in the fourth innings, just might do it.
A real treat of a book, that will gladden the hearts of any cricket lover over 25, and broaden the horizons of anyone under.
A gloriously funny yet poignant memoir
A witty, wry memoir . the comparisons to Nick Hornby's Fever Pitch are justified