{"product_id":"tough-as-fine-silk-book-uta-christensen-9781618970886","title":"Tough as Fine Silk","description":"\u003cb\u003eA rousing history of the penalty kick and its introduction in English football by a famed British writer \u0026amp; editor.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFootball, in the 1880s, was a rough and dangerous game. To address the abhorrent state of the sport, William McCrum, an amateur Irish goalkeeper and the author's great-grandfather, proposed the penalty kick, a new and drastic sanction introduced to the game in 1891. For over a hundred years, this extraordinary phenomenon has not only regulated the conduct of football (also known as soccer) but has also inspired game theories and infiltrated classics of contemporary literature. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn enthralling portrait of a lost age, \u003ci\u003eThe Penalty Kick: The Story of a Gamechanger\u0026gt;\u003c\/i\u003eis a family history, a social history, and a history of the world's most popular sport. It considers an extraordinary phenomenon as it examines the penalty kick's psychological--even philosophical--grip on our imaginations, with its distillation of risk and chance into the penalty shoot-out, an all-or-nothing moment.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50394926022929,"sku":"CIN1618970887G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1618970887.jpg?v=1751310131","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-au\/products\/tough-as-fine-silk-book-uta-christensen-9781618970886","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}