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Manslaughter United: A Season With A Prison Football Team
Chris Hulme
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Description for Manslaughter United: A Season With A Prison Football Team
Paperback. The Kingston Arrows are an unusual football team. Confined to playing home matches at HMP Kingston, the players are nine convicted murderers serving life sentences and two of their warders. Chris Hulme spent a season with them. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: JKVQ; WSJA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 10. Weight in Grams: 244.
Manslaughter United: the story of the hardest football team in England. 'People don't want to know us. They don't want to know we exist. We have all committed horrendous crimes, and they aren't going to understand why we're allowed to play football. But it's the only thing that makes our lives bearable.' Zebedee, Teddy, Bunny, Nigel, Scouse, Raph, Bumpy, Wayne, Carl, Paddy and Rizler. Eleven men - a football team. In every British town there are hundreds of amateur football teams. This team has the usual sprinkling of talent, but is otherwise unique. Nine ... Read more
Manslaughter United: the story of the hardest football team in England. 'People don't want to know us. They don't want to know we exist. We have all committed horrendous crimes, and they aren't going to understand why we're allowed to play football. But it's the only thing that makes our lives bearable.' Zebedee, Teddy, Bunny, Nigel, Scouse, Raph, Bumpy, Wayne, Carl, Paddy and Rizler. Eleven men - a football team. In every British town there are hundreds of amateur football teams. This team has the usual sprinkling of talent, but is otherwise unique. Nine ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Yellow Jersey Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780224051750
SKU
KLN0018101
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Chris Hulme
Chris Hulme writes for The Times, The Financial Times, the Guardian and the Sunday Telegraph. He lives in Cheshire with his wife and son.
Reviews for Manslaughter United: A Season With A Prison Football Team
"An extraordinary book. Buy it, read it, treasure it"
Sunday Times
"Porridge meets Escape to Victory. A witty, moving and wholly original read"
Daily Mirror
"Electrifying... a riveting account of what football can mean when you, quite literally have nothing else to live for"
Pete Davies "A great slice of sports writing"
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Sunday Times
"Porridge meets Escape to Victory. A witty, moving and wholly original read"
Daily Mirror
"Electrifying... a riveting account of what football can mean when you, quite literally have nothing else to live for"
Pete Davies "A great slice of sports writing"
... Read more