Saturday, 3pm: 50 Eternal Delights of Modern Football
Autor Daniel Grayen Limba Engleză Hardback – 6 oct 2016
Warm, heartfelt and witty, here are fifty short essays of prose poetry dedicated to what is good in the game. These are not wallowing nostalgia; they are things that remain sweet and right: seeing a ground from the train, brackets on vidiprinters, ball hitting bar, Jimmy Armfield's voice, listening to the results in a traffic jam, football towns and autograph-hunters. This is fan culture at its finest, words to transport you somewhere else and identify with, words to hide away in a pub and luxuriate in.
Saturday, 3pm is a book of love letters to football and a clarion call, helping us find the romance in the game all over again.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781472925114
ISBN-10: 1472925114
Pagini: 160
Dimensiuni: 122 x 184 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.21 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Sport
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1472925114
Pagini: 160
Dimensiuni: 122 x 184 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.21 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Sport
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Cuprins
Preface: Or, finding some things to love
1 Seeing a ground from the train
2 Watching an away end erupt
3 Getting the fixture list
4 Club shops
5 Saturday, 3pm
6 Spotting a fellow supporter elsewhere
7 Listening to the results in a car
8 Ball hitting bar
9 Pre-match routines
10 The first day of the season
11 Slide tackles in mud
12 Watching youth games in the park
13 Carrying on regardless
14 Belonging
15 Fat players
16 Jeering Passes that go out of play
17 Catering vans
18 Going with Dad
19 Jimmy Armfield's voice
20 Headers
21 Floodlights
22 Talking to an old man about football
23 Visiting a ground for the first time
24 Physiotherapist 'races'
25 Local lads 'coming through'
26 Sunday score pages
27 Shirts on a line
28 Defensive walls and drop-balls
29 Club eccentrics
30 Losing
31 Watching in bad weather
32 My daughter listening at the window
33 Singing
34 Brackets in scorelines
35 Standing on a terrace
36 When the ball goes in the crowd
37 Knowing where you are
38 Footballese
39 Time-wasting
40 Being at a junction station on matchday
41 Collectors
42 Football towns
43 Striking up a football conversation on a social occasion
44 Solid fixtures
45 Club nicknames
46 The 'hectic Christmas schedules'
47 Outfield players in goal
48 Seeing a team bus
49 Watching people get player autographs
50 The last day of the season
Acknowledgements
1 Seeing a ground from the train
2 Watching an away end erupt
3 Getting the fixture list
4 Club shops
5 Saturday, 3pm
6 Spotting a fellow supporter elsewhere
7 Listening to the results in a car
8 Ball hitting bar
9 Pre-match routines
10 The first day of the season
11 Slide tackles in mud
12 Watching youth games in the park
13 Carrying on regardless
14 Belonging
15 Fat players
16 Jeering Passes that go out of play
17 Catering vans
18 Going with Dad
19 Jimmy Armfield's voice
20 Headers
21 Floodlights
22 Talking to an old man about football
23 Visiting a ground for the first time
24 Physiotherapist 'races'
25 Local lads 'coming through'
26 Sunday score pages
27 Shirts on a line
28 Defensive walls and drop-balls
29 Club eccentrics
30 Losing
31 Watching in bad weather
32 My daughter listening at the window
33 Singing
34 Brackets in scorelines
35 Standing on a terrace
36 When the ball goes in the crowd
37 Knowing where you are
38 Footballese
39 Time-wasting
40 Being at a junction station on matchday
41 Collectors
42 Football towns
43 Striking up a football conversation on a social occasion
44 Solid fixtures
45 Club nicknames
46 The 'hectic Christmas schedules'
47 Outfield players in goal
48 Seeing a team bus
49 Watching people get player autographs
50 The last day of the season
Acknowledgements
Recenzii
Each is a precision-tooled delight. even apparently obvious subjects are described with such lyricism that the everyday is routinely transformed into the sublime. here is a book that contains nothing but pure, unadulterated joy
Delightfully written.countless little gems of recognition and satisfaction, many of them very funny. a lovely little thing
Lovingly crafted prose-poetry.a wonderful antidote to the money-sodden excesses of the modern game
I love this book, I had enormous fun reading it.a great book
Really nicely written. A brilliant book. Romantic, very recognisable things.
The author has compiled some wonderful things about our national game.I love this book. Wonderful. A delightful book.
A loveletter to nice things about football.fifty perfect little essays. A beautiful book.
A wonderful book.
I commend this book. Two pages are worth ten cliché-ridden football books. It evokes the nodal points of football memory.
Full of eternal delight. I loved it to pieces. Hymns that evoke the essence of the game. A fantastic book.
If you've ever wondered why people love football, the answers lie within...a damn good read.
A warm, smiling celebration of football's quirks, and of ours. Never mind how good a writer Daniel Gray is: what an eye he's got. You'll never watch a game again without liking some daft little moment and wishing you could share it with him.
A sonnet to football, whimsical and deeply rewarding.
A real midget gem of a book that fits perfectly into a jacket pocket for reading on the way to the match, or indeed during it if you're an England fan.
Gray beautifully articulates the pleasure offered by such pursuits as jeering passes that go out of play, listening to the results in the car, and spying a ground from the train window...his prose is exquisite...a physically slim but spiritually hefty treat.
Delightfully written.countless little gems of recognition and satisfaction, many of them very funny. a lovely little thing
Lovingly crafted prose-poetry.a wonderful antidote to the money-sodden excesses of the modern game
I love this book, I had enormous fun reading it.a great book
Really nicely written. A brilliant book. Romantic, very recognisable things.
The author has compiled some wonderful things about our national game.I love this book. Wonderful. A delightful book.
A loveletter to nice things about football.fifty perfect little essays. A beautiful book.
A wonderful book.
I commend this book. Two pages are worth ten cliché-ridden football books. It evokes the nodal points of football memory.
Full of eternal delight. I loved it to pieces. Hymns that evoke the essence of the game. A fantastic book.
If you've ever wondered why people love football, the answers lie within...a damn good read.
A warm, smiling celebration of football's quirks, and of ours. Never mind how good a writer Daniel Gray is: what an eye he's got. You'll never watch a game again without liking some daft little moment and wishing you could share it with him.
A sonnet to football, whimsical and deeply rewarding.
A real midget gem of a book that fits perfectly into a jacket pocket for reading on the way to the match, or indeed during it if you're an England fan.
Gray beautifully articulates the pleasure offered by such pursuits as jeering passes that go out of play, listening to the results in the car, and spying a ground from the train window...his prose is exquisite...a physically slim but spiritually hefty treat.