Daniel Gray

Saturday, 3pm (eBook, ePUB)

50 Eternal Delights of Modern Football

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Overpaid players. Sunday lunchtime kick-offs. Absurd ticket prices. Non-black boots. Football's menu of ills is long. Where has the joy gone? Why do we bother? Saturday, 3pm offers a glorious antidote. It is here to remind you that football can still sing to your heart.

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781472925121
• Artikelnr.: 45698294

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 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

Rezensionen

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