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Saturday, 3pm: 50 Eternal Delights of Modern Football

Autor Daniel Gray
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 5 oct 2016
Overpaid players. Sunday lunchtime kick-offs. Absurd ticket prices. Non-black boots. Football's menu of ills is long. Where has the joy gone? Why do we bother? Saturday, 3pm offers a glorious antidote. It is here to remind you that football can still sing to your heart. Warm, heartfelt and witty, here are fifty short essays of prose poetry dedicated to what is good in the game. These are not wallowing nostalgia; they are things that remain sweet and right: seeing a ground from the train, brackets on vidiprinters, ball hitting bar, Jimmy Armfield's voice, listening to the results in a traffic jam, football towns and autograph-hunters. This is fan culture at its finest, words to transport you somewhere else and identify with, words to hide away in a pub and luxuriate in. Saturday, 3pm is a book of love letters to football and a clarion call, helping us find the romance in the game all over again.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781472925114
ISBN-10: 1472925114
Pagini: 160
Dimensiuni: 120 x 180 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.22 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Sport
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Reviews of author's previous book, Hatters, Railwaymen and Knitters: "Gray writes like Lowry paints. Superb" and "Superlative . The book is beautifully written; pessimistic and damning, yet joyful and full of love for the game . Wonderful"

Notă biografică

Saturday, 3pm is Daniel Gray's third football book, and fifth book overall. His first, Homage to Caledonia was turned into a television miniseries when Gray was just 27, and he continues to present history on Scottish TV. His previous book, Hatters, Railwaymen and Knitters: Travels through England's Football Provinces, won widespread acclaim across the football and literary press. He writes a travel column for The Leither magazine, and his work has appeared across various newspapers and on BBC radio.

Recenzii

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
Delightfully written.countless little gems of recognition and satisfaction, many of them very funny. a lovely little thing
Lovingly crafted prose-poetry.a wonderful antidote to the money-sodden excesses of the modern game
I love this book, I had enormous fun reading it.a great book
Really nicely written. A brilliant book. Romantic, very recognisable things.
The author has compiled some wonderful things about our national game.I love this book. Wonderful. A delightful book.
A loveletter to nice things about football.fifty perfect little essays. A beautiful book.
A wonderful book.
I commend this book. Two pages are worth ten cliché-ridden football books. It evokes the nodal points of football memory.
Full of eternal delight. I loved it to pieces. Hymns that evoke the essence of the game. A fantastic book.
If you've ever wondered why people love football, the answers lie within...a damn good read.
A warm, smiling celebration of football's quirks, and of ours. Never mind how good a writer Daniel Gray is: what an eye he's got. You'll never watch a game again without liking some daft little moment and wishing you could share it with him.
A sonnet to football, whimsical and deeply rewarding.
A real midget gem of a book that fits perfectly into a jacket pocket for reading on the way to the match, or indeed during it if you're an England fan.
Gray beautifully articulates the pleasure offered by such pursuits as jeering passes that go out of play, listening to the results in the car, and spying a ground from the train window...his prose is exquisite...a physically slim but spiritually hefty treat.