Saturday, 3pm 50 Eternal Delights of Modern Football by Daniel Gray

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Saturday, 3pm
Daniel Gray
Sports & Recreation
Bloomsbury Sport
06 Oct 2016
160
9781472925114
£9.99
NetGalley

Synopsis:

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.

Let me make it clear first that this book is about British soccer; the perks, the joys, love and hate of certain aspects. Fan fiction… no it isn’t fiction… fan culture at it’s best and very enjoyable.

This book contains 50 short stories which in a lovely way express the love for football. It avoids the problems which modern football has and focuses on the positive things and describes how the real football lover lives football.

Absolute a must have for every (British) football lover!

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