Waterstones And the Sun Shines Now
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Price: £12.99
Brand: Waterstones
Description: Cross Sports Book Awards New Writer of the Year Shortlisted for The Orwell Prize 2017. Shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize 2017. Featured in The Observer’s Sport’s Writers’ Books of the Year. On the 15th April 1989, 96 people were fatally injured on a football terrace at an FA Cup semi-final in Sheffield. The Hillsborough disaster was broadcast live on the BBC; it left millions of people in shock, and English football in ruins. In the weeks that followed, Britain embarked on an unprecedented period of soul-searching over its national sport. And the Sun Shines Now is not a book about Hillsborough. It is a book about what arrived in the wake of unquestionably the most controversial tragedy in the post-war era of Britain's history. The Taylor Report. Italia 90. Gazza's tears. All seater stadia. Murdoch. Sky. Nick Hornby. The Premier League. The transformation of a game that once connected club to community to individual into a global business so rapacious the true fans have been forgotten; disenfranchised. In powerful polemical prose, against a backbone of rigorous research and interviews, Adrian Tempany deconstructs the past quarter century of English football and examines its place in the world. How did Hillsborough and the death of 96 Liverpool fans come to change the national game beyond recognition? And is there any hope that clubs can reconnect with a new generation of fans when you consider the startling statistic that the average age of season ticket holder here is 41, compared to Germany's 21? Perhaps the most honest account of the relationship between the football and the state yet written, And the Sun Shines Now is a brutal assessment of the modern game. ‘ An impassioned polemic about the relationship between football, society and the state by a journalist who is also a Hillsborough survivor.’ – The Mail on Sunday.
Category: Books
Merchant: Waterstones
Product ID: 9780571295128
Delivery cost: 2.99
ISBN: 9780571295128
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