A01=David Winner
Author_David Winner
Category=NHT
Category=SFBC
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Product details
- ISBN 9780747579144
- Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
- Publication Date: 06 Mar 2006
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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In this playful, witty and highly original look at English football, David Winner, author of the acclaimed "Brilliant Orange", journeys to the heart of Englishness and sheds new light on the true nature of a rapidly changing game that was never really meant to be beautiful. He shows how Victorian sexual anxiety underlies England's many World Cup failures. He reveals the connection between Roy Keane and a soldier who died in the Charge of the Light Brigade. And, he demonstrates how thick mud and wet leather shaped the contours of the English soul.
David Winner is a freelance journalist. He lives in London and Amsterdam.
