The Gaffta Awards: From Becks to Big Ron - Celebrating the Wonderful World of Football Speak
Larry Ryan
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Description for The Gaffta Awards: From Becks to Big Ron - Celebrating the Wonderful World of Football Speak
Paperback.
The Gaffta Awards is a book about football's most enduring characters. You know who we mean - the game's talking heads, the selfless men who entertain us as royally from behind the microphone as their more athletic comrades do on the pitch. Despite all the media attention football receives, no one has seen fit to devise an awards system for the verbal geniuses of the modern game. Until now. This is the definitive study of 'guff', our umbrella term for all the gaffes, faux pas and general foolishness so prevalent in football today. Thrill as Uncle Bobby Robson, King Kev ... Read more
The Gaffta Awards is a book about football's most enduring characters. You know who we mean - the game's talking heads, the selfless men who entertain us as royally from behind the microphone as their more athletic comrades do on the pitch. Despite all the media attention football receives, no one has seen fit to devise an awards system for the verbal geniuses of the modern game. Until now. This is the definitive study of 'guff', our umbrella term for all the gaffes, faux pas and general foolishness so prevalent in football today. Thrill as Uncle Bobby Robson, King Kev ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Mainstream Publishing
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781840189223
SKU
KLN0018143
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Larry Ryan
Larry Ryan is the editor of DangerHere.com and lives in Dublin, where he wears nothing but sheepskin and lives on a diet of champagne and cigars. Gareth Power is the former senior executive of DangerHere.com. He now lives in semi-retirement, devoting his time exclusively to football quotes. DangerHere?s Chief Football Writer Paul Little had a penchant ... Read more
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