Book review: How to Run a Football Club
Martin CloakeNovember 27, 2020
In the beginning, there is a field, a ball, some rudimentary goalposts, and some people who love to play football. By starting here, and drawing
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In the beginning, there is a field, a ball, some rudimentary goalposts, and some people who love to play football. By starting here, and drawing
Less overlapping full-backs, catenaccio and gegenpresse, more punk rock, autonomia and Gramscian theory, this is no ordinary football book. Which is the only way an
In his sweeping account of football in Britain, The Game of Our Lives, David Goldblatt describes ‘a thick web of values, rituals, histories and identities’.
There’s so much in this fascinating short book to appeal not only to followers of Tottenham Hotspur but to people who really want to understand
W C L D N – Glen Wilson It takes a deft touch and an eye for detail to evoke a sense of place. Glen
Loon pants and bar scarves, feather cuts and Oxford bags, Doc Martens and butcher’s coats – and badges. Lots of badges. A hitherto undiscovered set
All the norms have changed. The COVID-19 pandemic is the kind of all-encompassing event we used to read about in the history books or watch
The Ruhleben Football Association: How Steve Bloomer’s Footballers Survived A First World War Concentration Camp Paul Brown (Goal Post Books) It’s becoming increasingly rare
The highest praise Steve Perryman gives is to describe something as “properâ€. It means doing something not only in the best way, but the right
I wrote a book. It was about some things that happened. As books tend to be. I never imagined the fuss it would cause. The
In the beginning, there is a field, a ball, some rudimentary goalposts, and some people who love to play football. By starting here, and drawing
Less overlapping full-backs, catenaccio and gegenpresse, more punk rock, autonomia and Gramscian theory, this is no ordinary football book. Which is the only way an
In his sweeping account of football in Britain, The Game of Our Lives, David Goldblatt describes ‘a thick web of values, rituals, histories and identities’.
There’s so much in this fascinating short book to appeal not only to followers of Tottenham Hotspur but to people who really want to understand
W C L D N – Glen Wilson It takes a deft touch and an eye for detail to evoke a sense of place. Glen
Loon pants and bar scarves, feather cuts and Oxford bags, Doc Martens and butcher’s coats – and badges. Lots of badges. A hitherto undiscovered set
All the norms have changed. The COVID-19 pandemic is the kind of all-encompassing event we used to read about in the history books or watch
The Ruhleben Football Association: How Steve Bloomer’s Footballers Survived A First World War Concentration Camp Paul Brown (Goal Post Books) It’s becoming increasingly rare
The highest praise Steve Perryman gives is to describe something as “properâ€. It means doing something not only in the best way, but the right
I wrote a book. It was about some things that happened. As books tend to be. I never imagined the fuss it would cause. The
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