Daniel Gray

Extra Time (eBook, ePUB)

50 Further Delights of Modern Football

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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A collection of lyrical sweet-nothings whispered to late goals, local radio commentators, referees falling over and 47 other reminders of why we love football.

Despite its flaws and excesses, modern football is still sprinkled with simple yet beguiling delights. In his previous book Saturday, 3pm, Daniel Gray captured many of them. Now he is back with a further 50 short essays of prose poetry dedicated to the game's charming, technicolour minutiae.

From club lottos to undeserved wins, and from pitch-invading animals to the roar after a minute's silence, Extra Time is another romantic celebration of football fandom and its shared joys, habits, eccentricities and peculiarities. It is a salute to keepers going forward for corners, match balls landing on stand roofs and goals scored in quick succession.

These chapters offer a gleeful antidote to disillusionment with modern football, VAR and all. They are reminders of why we care and justifications for our devotion. Each warmly evokes this sport's blessed capacity to offer escape and diversion. Let us share the delight once more.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781472980373
• Artikelnr.: 60146245

Autorenporträt

Author and historian Daniel Gray is the writer of Stramash and Homage to Caledonia. For a short period in the early 1990s he was the finest left-back in his village, once marking Gordon Strachan's youngest son (the one who didn't become a footballer) out of the game. A Middlesbrough supporter, Daniel began attending football matches in 1988 and has never recovered. He has worked in a psychiatric hospital, a library and in television and politics. He loves staring out of train windows and lives in Leith with his wife and daughter. Follow him on Twitter at @d_gray_writer.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: Or, finding more things to love 1 Local radio commentators 2 Club
lottos and sellers 3 Indirect free-kicks in the box 4 Main stands 5
Spotting a first-match fan 6 Soft-spot teams 7 Late fitness tests 8 Animals
on the pitch 9 Booing a returning opposition player 10 The coin toss and
changing ends 11 Getting annoyed at the mount of injury time set 12 100+
points a session 13 Scoring in quick succession 14 The Pools Panel 15 Not
being able to sleep after a night match 16 Keepers celebrating a goal 17
Comebacks 18 Squad photographs 19 People patting police horses 20 Seeing
retired players get fat 21 Jeering disallowed goals 22 Being in an empty
ground 23 Clearing it off the line 24 Ball boys and girls 25 Holding a
football 26 The referee falling over 27 Midweek Match of the Day 28 Hearing
the players 29 Favourite and unlikely scorelines 30 Late goals 31 Being
fickle 32 Goalkeepers going forward 33 A balletic piece of play 34 Cup
draws 35 Not knowing the name of the person you sit with 36 Seeing a player
in a non-football setting 37 An injury time catch 38 Songs unique to your
club 39 Players celebrating a goal in front of you 40 When the ball goes
over a stand roof 41 Climbing the stairs into the stand 42 Wins in a row 43
A goal back! 44 Team talks on the pitch 45 The roar after a minute's
silence 46 Undeserved wins 47 Players applauding the away end 48 Spotting a
ground while on holiday 49 Going with my daughter 50 The final whistle
Acknowledgements