Those feet
a sensual history of English football
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Word Count
68,500 words, Guess
Page Count
274 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL3465798M
- ISBN-100747547386
- OCLC Control Number59876943
- OCLC Control Number57282897
- OCLC Control Numberthosefeetsensual0000winn
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- Library of Congress Control Number2005440459
- LibraryThing1554628
- Goodreads388538
Classifications
- DDC796.3340942
- LCCGV944.G7 W56 2005
Description
"In this playful, witty and highly original look at English soccer, David Winner, author of the acclaimed Brilliant Orange, journeys to the heart of an essential English pastime and sheds new light on the true nature of a rapidly changing game that was never really meant to be beautiful. With the same insightful eye he brought to his bestselling study of Dutch soccer, Winner shows how Victorian sexual anxiety underlies England's many World Cup failures. He reveals the connection between Roy Keane and a soldier who never lived but died in the Charge of the Light Brigade. And he demonstrates how thick mud and wet leather shaped the contours of the English soul"--
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