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The Outsider: A History of the Goalkeeper

Jonathan Wilson

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Description for The Outsider: A History of the Goalkeeper Paperback. The first-ever cultural, tactical and historical history of the goalkeeper, by Jonathan Wilson, acclaimed author of INVERTING THE PYRAMID. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: WSJA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 176 x 22. Weight in Grams: 304.

'SPLENDID' Daily Telegraph
'THOUGHT-PROVOKING' Independent on Sunday
'INSATIABLE' David Goldblatt
'METICULOUS' When Saturday Comes
'SUPERB' Readers Digest

In this first-ever cultural history of the 'loner' between the posts, Jonathan Wilson traces the sometimes dangerous intellectual and literary preoccupations of the keeper, and looks at how the position has secured a certain existential cool.

He travels to the Bassa region of Cameroon, which has produced two of Africa's greatest keepers, and also to Romania to talk to Helmuth Duckadam, who saved four penalties for Steaua Bucharest in the 1986 European Cup final. His absorbing tactical and technical insights ... Read more

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Publisher

Orion Publishing Co United Kingdom

Number of pages

368

Format

Paperback

Publication date

2013

Condition

New

Number of Pages

368

Place of Publication

London, United Kingdom

ISBN

9781409129844

SKU

V9781409129844

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Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days

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99-10

About Jonathan Wilson

Jonathan Wilson (Author) Jonathan Wilson is a columnist for the Guardian and the founder and editor of The Blizzard. Inverting the Pyramid: The History of Football Tactics was Football Book of the Year in 2009 and was shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year award. Seven of his other books have been shortlisted for football ... Read more

Reviews for The Outsider: A History of the Goalkeeper

A splendid history of football's complicated scapegoats.
Daily Telegraph
In THE OUTSIDER, Jonathan Wilson offers an ebullient history of the goalkeeper and tries to work out what it is that attracts the spiritual, the quizzical, the odd and the reflective to the position... Wilson offers a picture of the goalkeeper as an outsider, but also more of an ... Read moreeveryman than you might think.
David Goldblatt
A splendid history of the goalkeeper, whose lot has tended to be a thankless one (just ask Joe Hart). Wilson tells tales of violence against goalies, both verbal and physical, along with the burden of psychic stress carried by these singular players.
Sunday Telegraph
The ever-readable Wilson explores the psychological pressures of being cast in the role of the scapegoat... Thought-provoking and full of interesting detail... this book scores on every level.
Independent on Sunday
From the obese to the heroic and the corrupt, goalkeepers provide endless anecdotal material. Wilson weaves it together skilfully, from Victorian times to the present, from Charterhouse to Cameroon. The case for the position provoking a kind of existential unease is elegantly made.
Literary Review
From Albert Camus to John Paul II, and all points in between - a superb account of the men who wear different shirts and play be different rules from everybody else.
Readers Digest
Wilson's prodigious energy doesn't seem to dilute the quality of what he comes up with and this meticulous study of the goalkeeping art is characterised by the attention to detail that he brings to everything he writes... The Outsider is a terrific history of its subject. It wears its knowledgeable perspective lightly and deftly works its vast research into the text without battering you over the head with it. Wilson can always be relied upon to come up with something a little bit different and a little bit special, and this has plenty of both.
When Saturday Comes
From Albert Camus to John Paul II, and all points in between - a superb account of the men who wear different shirts and play be different rules from everybody else.
READERS DIGEST
A splendid history of the goalkeeper, whose lot has tended to be a thankless one (just ask Joe Hart). Wilson tells tales of violence against goalies, both verbal and physical, along with the burden of psychic stress carried by these singular players
THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
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