If Only: An Alternative History of the Beautiful Game - Softcover

Turner, Simon

 
9781785312809: If Only: An Alternative History of the Beautiful Game
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1785312804 ISBN 13: 9781785312809
Verlag: Pitch Publishing Ltd, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

If Only: An Alternative History of the Beautiful Game is a fiercely original counterfactual history of football. It is often tempting to believe in the grand sweep of history; to conclude that the triumphs of football's greatest teams were simply inevitable. The truth, however, is that history can turn on what appear, at first glance, to be infinitesimally small events. Behind all those triumphs lie the countless disappointments of teams that were denied glory by a cruel bounce, the width of a crossbar or a dubious refereeing decision. Challenging the perception that the outcome of great clashes could never have been any different to what they were, If Only reflects on what our football history could have been, what it might have been and, in some cases, what it probably should have been. Boldly turning football history on its head, If Only imagines a world in which Scotland win the first-ever World Cup, Derby County are champions of Europe and 1966 isn't the only year that England win anything.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

As a long-suffering supporter of Walsall Football Club, Simon Turner has witnessed countless 'if only' moments over the years. He lives in Lichfield with his wife Val, daughter Ellie, who has the good sense to follow athletics rather than football, and son Edward, who deliberately annoys him by supporting Aston Villa.

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Verlag
Pitch Publishing Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2017
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1785312804
ISBN 13 
9781785312809
Einband
Tapa blanda
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
384
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