Silence of the Stands (eBook)

Finding the Joy in Football's Lost Season

Daniel Gray (Autor)

eBook Download: PDF

2022
176 Seiten
Bloomsbury Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-3994-0404-4 (ISBN)

Infos

LONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2023 - FOOTBALL BOOK OF THE YEAR'Powerful and poignant' Henry Winter 'Empathetic and poignant the game's answer to A Journal of the Plague Year' Harry Pearson 'The Durham City midfielder wore the resigned look of a man trying to find a jar of harissa in Farmfoods. Up front for Jarrow, a centre-forward darted around frenetically, as if chasing a kite during a hurricane...' When football disappeared in March 2020, writer and broadcaster Daniel Gray used its absence to reflect on everything the game meant to him. That bred a pledge: whenever and wherever fans were allowed to return, he would be there. The Silence of the Stands is the result of that pledge: a joyous travelogue documenting a precarious season, in which behind-closed-doors matches and travel restrictions combined to make trips to Kendal and Workington seem impossibly exotic.Offering a poignant peek at a surreal age and a slab of social history from the two-metre-distanced tea bar queue, this is the moving, heartfelt and surprisingly uplifting story of a unique season that no one wishes to repeat.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.11.2022
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Comic / Humor / Manga
• Themenwelt: Sport ► Ballsport ► Fußball
• Themenwelt: Reisen ► Reiseberichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• ISBN-10: 1-3994-0404-0 / 1399404040
• ISBN-13: 978-1-3994-0404-4 / 9781399404044