- Book 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.
- About The Author
- Daniel Gray is a writer, broadcaster and magazine editor from York. He presents the When Saturday Comes podcast and has published a host of critically acclaimed books on football and social history, including The Silence of the Stands which was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Sports Book Awards 2023. @d_gray_writer
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781472925114
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Sport, (06 October 2016)
- Number of Pages
- 160
- Weight
- 210 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 184 x 122 x 20 mm
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