Daniel Gray is the Anthony Bourdain of football writers, someone who is capable of mixing travel and sport in a truly fascinating way. His Hatters, Railwaymen and Knitters: Travels through England’s Football Provinces was widely acclaimed by ISN and just about everyone else. Cover Art Courtesy of Bloomsbury Publishing Saturday, 3 PM: 50 Eternal Delights of Modern Football is Gray’s latest offering and one we eagerly waited months for. It was well worth the wait as they say, a truly
Peter Chapman’s Out of Time: 1966 and the End of Old-Fashioned Britain is a brilliant coming of age story offered up by our friends at Bloomsbury. It is a story of a young man (the author) beginning his adult life, a football team finally meeting expectations, and a country becoming less of an empire. Cover Art Courtesy of Bloomsbury Publishing It’s a beautiful text, a nostalgic look back at a different world. It was a different time, a different political climate, and
Every sport has a defining text. For soccer it has to be Gavin Newsham’s Once in a Lifetime or David Goldbatt’s The Ball is Round. Now rugby has one of its own, a new offering from Bloomsbury and Tony Collins called The Oval World: A Global History of Rugby. Collins is absolutely brilliant in his recalling of rugby’s history. It is a comprehensive timeline of the sport, chronicling the ups and downs of rugby in every corner of the world. Readers are
Paul Trevillion is a world-renowned sports artist, famous for the legendary comic strip character Roy of the Rovers and his cult classic “You are the Ref” column in The Observer. Trevillion is the artist behind the latest soccer title from Bloomsbury Publishing, the brilliant You are the Ref. 1. Why do you think “You are the Ref” became a cult classic? It was in 1957 when “You Are The Ref” first appeared in a UK national newspaper the Sunday People. It was
