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Hatters, Railwaymen and Knitters: Travels through England´s Football Provinces
Daniel Gray
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Description for Hatters, Railwaymen and Knitters: Travels through England´s Football Provinces
Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; WSJA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 222.
Daniel Gray is about to turn thirty. Like any sane person, his response is to travel to Luton, Crewe and Hinckley. After a decade's exile in Scotland, he sets out to reacquaint himself with England via what he considers its greatest asset: football. Watching teams from the Championship (or Division Two as any right-minded person calls it) to the South West Peninsula Premier, and aimlessly walking around towns from Carlisle to Newquay, Gray paints a curious landscape forgotten by many. He discovers how the provinces made the England we know, from Teesside's role in the Empire to ... Read more
Daniel Gray is about to turn thirty. Like any sane person, his response is to travel to Luton, Crewe and Hinckley. After a decade's exile in Scotland, he sets out to reacquaint himself with England via what he considers its greatest asset: football. Watching teams from the Championship (or Division Two as any right-minded person calls it) to the South West Peninsula Premier, and aimlessly walking around towns from Carlisle to Newquay, Gray paints a curious landscape forgotten by many. He discovers how the provinces made the England we know, from Teesside's role in the Empire to ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781408830994
SKU
V9781408830994
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-2
About Daniel Gray
Author and historian Daniel Gray is the writer of Stramash and Homage to Caledonia. For a short period in the early 1990s he was the finest left-back in his village, once marking Gordon Strachan's youngest son (the one who didn't become a footballer) out of the game. A Middlesbrough supporter, Daniel began ... Read more
Reviews for Hatters, Railwaymen and Knitters: Travels through England´s Football Provinces
Excellent
David Conn, Guardian
Gray writes like Lowry paints. Superb
BBC Lancashire
Like a footballing version of Bill Bryson's Notes from a Small Island
Four Four Two
A wryly-observed history lesson on lower league football and proper Englishness
Loaded
Among urban blight, his astute eye can pick out details that are funny, ... Read more
David Conn, Guardian
Gray writes like Lowry paints. Superb
BBC Lancashire
Like a footballing version of Bill Bryson's Notes from a Small Island
Four Four Two
A wryly-observed history lesson on lower league football and proper Englishness
Loaded
Among urban blight, his astute eye can pick out details that are funny, ... Read more