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And the sun shines now : how Hillsborough and the Premier Team changed Britain / by Adrian Tempany.
LIBRA GV944.G7 .T46 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tempany, Adrian, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Soccer teams--England.
- Soccer teams.
- Soccer--Economic aspects--England.
- Soccer.
- Soccer--England--History.
- Soccer--Economic aspects.
- History.
- England.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 433 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Faber and Faber, 2016.
- Summary:
- And the Sun Shines Now is not a book about Hillsborough. It is a book about what arrived in the wake of the most controversial tragedy in post-war Britain. The Taylor Report. Italia 90. Gazza's tears. All-seater stadia. Murdoch. Sky. Nick Hornby. The Premier League. The transformation of a game that had once connected club to community to individual into a global business so rapacious that true fans have been forgotten, disenfranchised. In powerful, polemical prose, against a backbone of rigorous research and interview, Adrian Tempany deconstructs the past quarter-century of English football and examines its place in the world. How did Hillsborough come to change our national sport beyond recognition? Who has won in the 'whole new ball game' - and what has been lost? And is there any hope that clubs can reconnect with a new generation of fans when the average age of a season-ticket holder in England is 41, compared to 21 in Germany? Perhaps the most honest account of the relationship between football and the state yet written, by a Hillsborough survivor, And the Sun Shines Now is a brutal assessment of the modern game - and of the recent inquest into the tragedy. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 Sorry, Lad ... I Can't Move 1
- 2 A Cosy Stitch-up 32
- 3 Who Does Turandot Play for? 59
- 4 Mr Murdoch for You, Prime Minister 80
- 5 Turning Rebellion into Money 114
- 6 Go on, Son ... Give Us a Kick 157
- 7 Next Stop, Milton Keynes 196
- 8 The University of Spurs 238
- 9 Those Bloody Germans 277
- 10 The Good Ship St Pauli 303
- 11 Still in There, Fighting 330
- 12 Truth and Reconciliation 367.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 423-426) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780571295111
- 0571295118
- OCLC:
- 868378455
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