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The Far Corner - A Mazy Dribble Through North-East Football (Paperback, Revised)
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The Far Corner - A Mazy Dribble Through North-East Football (Paperback, Revised)
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List price R336
Loot Price R305
Discovery Miles 3 050
You Save R31 (9%)
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Since the cash-cow that was Nick Hornby's Fever Pitch, there have
been any number of literate soccer books, most of them not worth a
place on the sub's bench at Runcorn. This is a rare exception. The
book is shot through with football folklore, and with football
people: the local shopkeeper's obsession with Len Shackleton, the
Seaham fan with the unparalleled mastery of the soccer cliche, the
Sunderland Skinhead, and Hughie Gallagher all make memorable
appearances. A word of warning though - a mastery of soccer trivia
is a help. If the boozy world of Alan Foggon is a mystery to you,
some parts of this may need translation. (Kirkus UK)
A book in which Wilf Mannion rubs shoulders with The Sunderland Skinhead: recollections of Len Shakleton blight the lives of village shoppers: and the appointment of Kevin Keegan as manager of Newcastle is celebrated by a man in a leather stetson, crooning 'For The Good Times' to the accompaniment of a midi organ, THE FAR CORNER is a tale of heroism and human frailty, passion and the perils of eating an egg mayonnaise stottie without staining your trousers.
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