Farther Corner (eBook)

A Sentimental Return to North-East Football

Harry Pearson (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2020
304 Seiten
Simon & Schuster UK (Verlag)
9781471180903 (ISBN)

Infos

LONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR PRIZE 2020One of the funniest books Ive read Arthur Mathews, co-writer of Father TedWidely regarded as one of the best football books ever written, The Far Corner was a vivid portrait of the sport in the north-east and of the people who bring such passion to it. Now, a generation later, Harry Pearson returns to the region to discover how much things have changed - and how much they have remained the same. In the mid-1990s, Kevin Keegan brought sporting romance and expectation of trophies to Newcastle, Sunderland moved the the Stadium of Light backed by a wealthy consortium, Middlesbrough signed one of the best Brazilians of the era and won their first major trophy - even little Darlington had a former safe-cracker turned kitchen magnate in charge, promising the world. The region even provided Englands two key players in Euro 96 in Alan Shearer and Paul Gascoigne - the far corner seemed destined to become the centre of Englands footballing world. But it never happened. Using travels to and from matches in the 2018-19 season, The Farther Corner will explore the changes in north-east football and society over the past twenty-five years. Visiting new places and some familiar ones, catching the stories, the sentiment and the sound of the supporters, locating where football now sits in the life of a region that was once proud to be what John Arlott suggested was ';The Hotbed of Soccer', it will be about love and loss and the happiness to be found eating KitKats and joking about Bobby Mimms on cold February days in coal-scented northern air. The region may have been left behind in the Champions League stakes, but few would doubt the power of its beating heart.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.8.2020
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sport ► Ballsport ► Fußball
• ISBN-13: 9781471180903 / 9781471180903