The Last Amateur and Other Stories
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2025
Halcyon Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-0684394-0-7 (ISBN)
Halcyon Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-0684394-0-7 (ISBN)
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Ian Plenderleith tackles the themes that dog and drive 21st century football, where misplaced idealists engage with the struggle to stem corruption, cheating and avarice. Scored with dark humour, these fast-moving tales press the question: how much impurity and compromise can we tolerate before we have to declare - we've lost the game.
Scotland's greatest ever player refuses to go pro and leave his burgeoning village team. A multi-billionaire returns home to raze a housing state and re-construct the ground where he scored freely as a teenager. An ex-BBC commentator signed by commercial radio keeps 'forgetting' to mention the programme's fast food sponsors. A Premier League fan's life is transformed when a clip of him screaming at a linesman goes viral. An ex-amateur with dementia calls on his former team-mate every day to re-live the game that mirrored their fractious bond. A Sunday League pub team is unnerved by the strange couple who follow them every week.
In his second volume of eleven short stories inspired by the amorality, the greed, and the somehow still irresistible allure of the modern game, Ian Plenderleith tackles the themes that dog and drive 21st century football, where misplaced idealists engage with the struggle to stem corruption, cheating and avarice. These fast-moving tales are scored with dark humour and probing questions. What if we were offered a fat envelope full of cash just to fix the semi-final draw of the Cup? Would you work for a company set to shaft the team you've followed all your life? How much impurity and compromise can we tolerate before we have to declare - we've lost the game.
Scotland's greatest ever player refuses to go pro and leave his burgeoning village team. A multi-billionaire returns home to raze a housing state and re-construct the ground where he scored freely as a teenager. An ex-BBC commentator signed by commercial radio keeps 'forgetting' to mention the programme's fast food sponsors. A Premier League fan's life is transformed when a clip of him screaming at a linesman goes viral. An ex-amateur with dementia calls on his former team-mate every day to re-live the game that mirrored their fractious bond. A Sunday League pub team is unnerved by the strange couple who follow them every week.
In his second volume of eleven short stories inspired by the amorality, the greed, and the somehow still irresistible allure of the modern game, Ian Plenderleith tackles the themes that dog and drive 21st century football, where misplaced idealists engage with the struggle to stem corruption, cheating and avarice. These fast-moving tales are scored with dark humour and probing questions. What if we were offered a fat envelope full of cash just to fix the semi-final draw of the Cup? Would you work for a company set to shaft the team you've followed all your life? How much impurity and compromise can we tolerate before we have to declare - we've lost the game.
Ian Plenderleith is a freelance journalist and writer who grew up in Lincolnshire and now lives in Frankfurt am Main. He's been a regular contributor to When Saturday Comes magazine for 30 years, and writes a weekly opinion column for Soccer America. His previous books include For Whom the Ball Rolls (fiction), Rock n Roll Soccer: The Short Life and Fast Times of the North American Soccer League (self-explanatory), and The Quiet Fan (kind of a memoir). His blog, Referee Tales, morphed into his latest book, Reffing Hell: Stuck in the Middle of a game gone wrong, which was published in 2022. You can follow him on Twitter @PlenderleithIan and @RefereeTales.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 03.06.2025 |
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| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 129 x 198 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen |
| Sport ► Ballsport ► Fußball | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-0684394-0-8 / 1068439408 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-0684394-0-7 / 9781068439407 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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