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Union Jock
Aidan Smith
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Description for Union Jock
Paperback. Investigates the age-old England-Scotland enmity, both on and off the football field. This book addresses questions such as: What do the fans, players, politicians, and Sassenach invaders really think about their English neighbors? Would supporting England be a denial of their Scottishness? Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: WSJA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135 x 21. Weight in Grams: 295.
July 30, 1966. Bobby Moore is lifting the Jules Rimet trophy, Denis Law is playing golf, and a young boy in Edinburgh is being taught the most important lesson of his life: no matter who England are playing, you support the other lot. If the opposition have a dodgy human rights record, or are cruel to wasps, or can't even be located on a large-format map - too bad. You support the other lot.
Forty years on, and Aidan Smith has done a pretty good job of supporting the other lot. But these days he should be old enough, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780224080156
SKU
V9780224080156
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-40
About Aidan Smith
Aidan Smith has lived in Edinburgh all his life, and is currently Senior Feature Writer of Scotland on Sunday. He is the author of one previous book - Heartfelt: Supping Bovril from the Devil's Cup - which Irvine Welsh called 'the best book I've ever read about football'.
Reviews for Union Jock
An entertaining and enlightening cross-cultural border exchange
Metro
A journey into the psyche of a foreign nation... part travelogue, part autobiography, part humorous musing
Four Four Two
Metro
A journey into the psyche of a foreign nation... part travelogue, part autobiography, part humorous musing
Four Four Two