Soccer Samurai by David Bennie
After watching saturation coverage of the 64 games which constituted the Japanese/South Korean World Cup, square-eyed and sleep-deprived Scottish author David Bennie has strung together a series of tough-tackling, left-field "match reports" from the discomfort of his 4F Tartan Army armchair. Such sedentary, stay-at-home participation in World Cup 2002 became inevitable when Scotland bade "sayonara" to the possibility of qualification when they failed to beat Croatia is 2001. Trying to set aside centuries of cross-border rivalry, Bennie attempts to support England during their World Cup campaign, an interesting experiment which leads to high confusion and schizophrenic head games. As the matches are loaded with less emotional baggage, Bennie needs to choose between relatively value-free competing teams and in order to do so he falls back on the differentials of strip design and colour, national histories, current politics, cultural stereotypes and natural sympathy for the footballing underdog. This title combines autobiographical humour, sports writing, pop culture philosophizing, political polemic and the kind of geography lessons you never get at school.
David Bennie was born in Glasgow and is a former sports journalist and book reviewer. He is the author Not Playing For Celtic and A Season in Hell and currently resides in Edinburgh.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781840186543 |
| ISBN 10 | 1840186542 |
| Titel | Soccer Samurai |
| Autor | David Bennie |
| Buchzustand | Nicht verfügbar |
| Bindungsart | Paperback |
| Verlag | Transworld Publishers Ltd |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2002-09-30 |
| Seitenanzahl | 208 |
| Hinweis auf dem Einband | Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden. |
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