The Beautiful Game

Alan Gibbons

The Beautiful Game
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Barrington Stoke Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Published
26 April 2017
Pages
72
ISBN
9781781126912

The Beautiful Game

Alan Gibbons

At an Old Trafford game, Lennie hears Man U fans chanting about Hillsborough. Enraged, he joins in with a retaliatory chant about the Munich Disaster of ‘58. Appalled, his dad and granddad take Lennie on a whistlestop tour of the dark side of the beautiful game. Dad and Grandad know only too well the human cost of fan violence and official negligence, having experience racism in football fandom and survived the Hillsborough disaster. Interwoven with lots of facts about the history of football, the great disasters of the twentieth century and the black footballers who blazed a trail in the UK, this book is ideal to engage reluctant reading football fans.

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