And the Sun Shines Now by Adrian Tempany
SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE FEATURED IN THE OBSERVER'S SPORTS WRITERS' BOOKS OF THE YEAR On 15 April 1989, 96 people were fatally injured on a football terrace at an FA Cup semi-final in Sheffield. The Hillsborough disaster was broadcast live on the BBC; it left millions of people traumatised, and English football in ruins. And the Sun Shines Now is not a book about Hillsborough. It is a book about what arrived in the wake of unquestionably the most controversial tragedy in the post-war era of Britain's history. The Taylor Report. Italia 90. Gazza's tears. All seater stadia. Murdoch. Sky. Nick Hornby. The Premier League. The transformation of a game that once connected club to community to individual into a global business so rapacious the true fans have been forgotten, disenfranchised. In powerful polemical prose, against a backbone of rigorous research and interviews, Adrian Tempany deconstructs the past quarter century of English football and examines its place in the world. How did Hillsborough and the death of 96 Liverpool fans come to change the national game beyond recognition? And is there any hope that clubs can reconnect with a new generation of fans when you consider the startling statistic that the average age of season ticket holder here is 41, compared to Germany's 21? Perhaps the most honest account of the relationship between the football and the state yet written, And the Sun Shines Now is a brutal assessment of the modern game.
Adrian Tempany is a Liverpool supporter and a journalist who has written for the Observer and the Financial Times.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780571295111 |
| ISBN 10 | 0571295118 |
| Title | And the Sun Shines Now |
| Author | Adrian Tempany |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Faber & Faber |
| Year published | 2016-05-26 |
| Number of pages | 448 |
| Prizes | Winner of Cross Sports Book Awards New Writer of the Year 2017, Short-listed for Orwell Prize 2017, Short-listed for Gordon Burn Prize 2016 |
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