Andrew Anthony

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Produktbeschreibung

'Score and few will remember; miss and no one will forget'

Talking to some of the game's most successful players and managers, the question the book seeks to address is simple: can England overcome their fear of the penalty?

The penalty shoot-out is the greatest set piece of sporting drama ever conceived.

Cruel, arbitrary, tortuous and unfair, it has also presented the England football team with a new and infinitely more punishing manner in which to lose. Three times in the past decade the nation has sat on the edge of its collective sofa and watched the seemingly inevitable unfold as Stuart Pearce, Chris Waddle, Gareth Southgate, Paul Ince and David Batty have selected the wrong shots in the lottery of international championship shoot-outs.

Except it's not a lottery. There is an art to scoring penalties, which calls upon a unique combination of physical prowess and psychological strength. In the corridor of truth that leads from the penalty spot to the goal-line, a succession of English footballers have had to confront not only the opposing goalkeeper but the hopes and dreams of fans and fellow countrymen and, of course, themselves.

'A tour de force of narrative journalism' Observer

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781446466049
• Artikelnr.: 39224825

Autorenporträt

Andrew Anthony is a feature writer and investigative journalist. He has written for the Observer since 1993, and for the Guardian since 1990. He has also written for Vogue and the Daily Telegraph. His features cover a wide range of subjects: politics, crime, sport, literature, TV and popular culture. He was nominated for Feature Writer of the Year in 2000 and Sports Writer of the Year in 2003.