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Following On - A Memoir of Teenage Obsession and Terrible Cricket (Paperback)
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Following On - A Memoir of Teenage Obsession and Terrible Cricket (Paperback)
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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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