Long distance love : a passion for football / Grant Farred.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Farred, Grant.

Series:

Sporting (Philadelphia, Pa.)

Sporting

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Liverpool Football Club.

Soccer fans.

Soccer--Social aspects.

Soccer.

Physical Description:

xii, 209 pages ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2008.

Summary:

Since he was a young adult, Grant Farred has wandered the world.& Born in South Africa, his own personal growth was fueled by dreams of English football, as a player, and then, when age and reality set in, as a fan.& Coming to the United States at a still young age, Farred still loved football -- especially Liverpool -- and watched it from afar.& Writing about his experience, Farred shares with the reader his experience growing up colored in South Africa, moving to England, and finally to the US, and how his passion for football kept company with his many moves.& Along the way, he talks about the contradictions of football; how race and class politics mix on and off the pitch; how Farred's own ideas about what it means to be a colonial subject is both reinforced and liberated by the idea of football, and how players can serve as gods and mosnters.&

Contents:

Introduction: A Talk, Drinks, and Dinner with God 1

Long Distance Love: Growing Up a Liverpool Football Club Fan 26

Los Desaparecidos y la Copa Mundial 60

Som Mes que un Club, pero Menys que una Nacio: More than a Club, but Less than a Nation 82

Careless Whispers: The Doubleness of Spanish Love 98

At Home, Out of Place 128

God's Team: The Painful Pleasure of the Miracle on the Bosphorus 149

The Gerrard Final 169.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [189]-198) and index.

ISBN:

1592133738

9781592133734

1592133746

9781592133741

OCLC:

145379682

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