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28%OFFRichard Wilson - Inside the Divide: One City, Two Teams . . . The Old Firm - 9781847678393 - V9781847678393
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Inside the Divide: One City, Two Teams . . . The Old Firm

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Description for Inside the Divide: One City, Two Teams . . . The Old Firm Paperback. The remarkable inside story of football's greatest rivalry. Num Pages: 272 pages, Illustrations (chiefly col.). BIC Classification: 1DBKSC; WSBT; WSJA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 18. Weight in Grams: 202. One City, Two Teams . The Old Firm. 272 pages, Illustrations (chiefly col.). The remarkable inside story of football's greatest rivalry. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1DBKSC; WSBT; WSJA. Dimension: 198 x 128 x 18. Weight: 204.

Since 1888, Rangers and Celtic football clubs have been locked into an intense and frequently explosive rivalry: Rangers the product of West Scotland's Protestant establishment, Celtic the team founded to raise money for the Catholic underclass of Glasgow.

On 2 January 2010 the two teams met in the Old Firm's New Year Derby, a fixture that had been banned for ten years because of the trouble it brought with it. Richard Wilson puts that game at the centre of a book which delves into the history and widens out to the cultural resonance of the fixture within Scotland. It ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Canongate Books
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847678393
SKU
V9781847678393
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-83

About Richard Wilson
Richard Wilson was born in Glasgow and spent almost 10 years at the Sunday Times Scotland, as deputy sports editor, then staff sports writer. In 2002, he won the Jim Rodger Memorial Award for best young sports writer. In 2003, at the Scottish Press Awards, he was named Sports Writer of the Year. He has regularly been nominated in the ... Read more

Reviews for Inside the Divide: One City, Two Teams . . . The Old Firm
An insightful and wonderfully written account . . . Richard Wilson, more than anyone in recent years, has told us why Celtic and Rangers matter and why their adherents have little of which to be ashamed and much of which to be proud. I salute him

Observer

A measured and thought-provoking treatise on the ... Read more

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