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The Far Corner: A Mazy Dribble Through North-East Football
Harry Pearson
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Description for The Far Corner: A Mazy Dribble Through North-East Football
Paperback. * Covering the game at all levels from St. James's Park to Langley Park, from Roker to Willington, THE FAR CORNER is Harry Pearson's brilliant account of the north-east's experience of the 1993-1994 football season. Num Pages: 256 pages, 8 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKEY; 3JJPR; WH; WSJA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 196.
A book in which Wilf Mannion rubs shoulders with The Sunderland Skinhead: recollections of Len Shakleton blight the lives of village shoppers: and the appointment of Kevin Keegan as manager of Newcastle is celebrated by a man in a leather stetson, crooning 'For The Good Times' to the accompaniment of a midi organ, THE FAR CORNER is a tale of heroism and human frailty, passion and the perils of eating an egg mayonnaise stottie without staining your trousers.
A book in which Wilf Mannion rubs shoulders with The Sunderland Skinhead: recollections of Len Shakleton blight the lives of village shoppers: and the appointment of Kevin Keegan as manager of Newcastle is celebrated by a man in a leather stetson, crooning 'For The Good Times' to the accompaniment of a midi organ, THE FAR CORNER is a tale of heroism and human frailty, passion and the perils of eating an egg mayonnaise stottie without staining your trousers.
Product Details
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Condition
New
Weight
185g
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780349108377
SKU
V9780349108377
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-99
About Harry Pearson
Harry Pearson is a journalist and writer who contributes regularly to the GUARDIAN, WHEN SATURDAY COMES and a number of those men's magazines with women in bras on the cover. His second book, RACING PIG S AND GIANT MARROWS, was shortlisted for the Thomas Cook/DAILY TELEGRAPH Travel Book of the Year.
Reviews for The Far Corner: A Mazy Dribble Through North-East Football
Savagely funny and frequently moving ... Some of the humour is as full-blooded as a tackle by Bryan Robson ... At times the author wanders off at a tangent, like Chris Waddle on a bad day, then that is the capricious nature of football
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