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Extra Time - 50 Further Delights of Modern Football (Hardcover)
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Extra Time - 50 Further Delights of Modern Football (Hardcover)
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List price R390
Loot Price R316
Discovery Miles 3 160
You Save R74 (19%)
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Featured in The Scotsman's Sport Books of 2020 A collection of
lyrical sweet-nothings whispered to late goals, local radio
commentators, referees falling over and 47 other reminders of why
we love football. Despite its flaws and excesses, modern football
is still sprinkled with simple yet beguiling delights. In his
previous book Saturday, 3pm, Daniel Gray captured many of them. Now
he is back with a further 50 short essays of prose poetry dedicated
to the game's charming, technicolour minutiae. From club lottos to
undeserved wins, and from pitch-invading animals to the roar after
a minute's silence, Extra Time is another romantic celebration of
football fandom and its shared joys, habits, eccentricities and
peculiarities. It is a salute to keepers going forward for corners,
match balls landing on stand roofs and goals scored in quick
succession. These chapters offer a gleeful antidote to
disillusionment with modern football, VAR and all. They are
reminders of why we care and justifications for our devotion. Each
warmly evokes this sport's blessed capacity to offer escape and
diversion. Let us share the delight once more.
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