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Shots in the Dark - A Diary of Saturday Dreams and Strange Times (Paperback)
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Shots in the Dark - A Diary of Saturday Dreams and Strange Times (Paperback)
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'I loved every page, and ended up admiring David Kynaston, our
greatest social historian, even more than I already did' Nick
Hornby Brimming with wisdom and humour, David Kynaston's diaries
written over one football season offer up his most personal take on
social history to date. David Kynaston was seven and a half years
old when he attended his first Aldershot match in the early months
of 1959. So began a deep attachment to the game and a lifelong
loyalty to an obscure, small-town football club. Though as he sits
down to write his diaries almost sixty years on, he reflects that
life might have been simpler if his father had never taken him to
that first match at the Rec... Shots in the Dark is the diary David
Kynaston kept in the football season of 2016/17, detailing the ups
and downs of the 'Shots' in the year that saw a divisive referendum
in the UK and the impending ascension of Donald Trump. Here
Kynaston presents a social history of modern Britain with a
difference - all through the prism of the beautiful game. A
testament to the ways in which fandom gives solidity and security
to our lives, particularly in these bewildering and rapidly
changing times, Shots in the Dark gets to the heart of what it
means to be a devoted follower of a sports team. This is a diary of
the macro and the micro, as questions of loyalty, of identity, of
liberalism and of nationalism all rub uncomfortably up against each
other during nine charged months. ____________________ 'A master
socioeconomic craftsman' Guardian '[A] delightful book ... This is
a book about football but, like all the best books, it is about a
thousand other things as well ... This thrilling, intimate,
sometimes poignant, often wonderfully funny book shows the workings
in real time of a deeply civilised, humane and tolerant mind in an
age when those virtues are in short supply. Here is a man with whom
you would want to go to a match, and even share a beer afterwards.
David Kynaston is one of the good guys, and this is one of the very
good books' Daily Mail 'A charming diary ... He's the sort of fan I
want to sit next to: partisan yet civil, eyes on the match but
aware there are bigger things to worry about' Financial Times
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