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The Farther Corner - A Sentimental Return to North-East Football (Paperback)
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The Farther Corner - A Sentimental Return to North-East Football (Paperback)
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Loot Price R206
Discovery Miles 2 060
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LONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR PRIZE 2020
'One of the funniest books I've read' Arthur Mathews, co-writer of
Father Ted Widely regarded as one of the best football books ever
written, The Far Corner was a vivid portrait of the sport in the
north-east and of the people who bring such passion to it. Now, a
generation later, Harry Pearson returns to the region to discover
how much things have changed - and how much they have remained the
same. In the mid-1990s, Kevin Keegan brought sporting romance and
expectation of trophies to Newcastle, Sunderland moved the the
Stadium of Light backed by a wealthy consortium, Middlesbrough
signed one of the best Brazilians of the era and won their first
major trophy - even little Darlington had a former safe-cracker
turned kitchen magnate in charge, promising the world. The region
even provided England's two key players in Euro 96 in Alan Shearer
and Paul Gascoigne - the far corner seemed destined to become the
centre of England's footballing world. But it never happened. Using
travels to and from matches in the 2018-19 season, The Farther
Corner will explore the changes in north-east football and society
over the past twenty-five years. Visiting new places and some
familiar ones, catching the stories, the sentiment and the sound of
the supporters, locating where football now sits in the life of a
region that was once proud to be what John Arlott suggested was
'The Hotbed of Soccer', it will be about love and loss and the
happiness to be found eating KitKats and joking about Bobby Mimms
on cold February days in coal-scented northern air. The region may
have been left behind in the Champions League stakes, but few would
doubt the power of its beating heart.
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