Black Boots and Football Pinks 50 Lost Wonders of the Beautiful Game
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Biografisk notat
Daniel Gray is the author of Saturday, 3pm: 50 Eternal Delights of Modern Football and Scribbles in the Margins: 50 Eternal Delights of Books. He has written five other books on football, politics, history and travel. His recent work has included screenwriting for the BBC, presenting social history on television and radio, and writing across a number of national titles.A funny, affectionate and nostalgic celebration of quirks ... It would be easy to get the tone wrong but Gray's touch is exquisite. A book with so much warmth you could slip it into your pocket for games in winter.
The Times
A heartwarming, occasionally emotional and often very funny meander down Memory Lane… A book of considerable charm, worth the price of admission for the phrase “hair wax applied methodically and in a style that considered Charles Buchan’s Football Weekly a mirror” alone.
The Observer
The perfect stocking filler…a wonderful little book.
Sunday Sport
Often funny and absolutely authentic.
The Herald, Sports Books of the Year
Fifty taken-for-granted gems of Britain’s footballing past have been preserved for posterity…an unabashed love letter to the beautiful game. Back of the net.
The Sunday Post, Books of the Year
[Gray’s] poetic prose makes him the John Cheever of the penalty spot and the Joan Didion of the halfway line.
Ian McMillan
[Gray] effortlessly paints pictures that transport you to a place and time … both clever and endearing
The Football Pink
Wistful and affecting.
Michael Calvin
[Daniel Gray] is a very fine writer … funny, warm and, sheesh, this lad can turn a phrase in the way Juninho would Samba his way past a defender for his beloved Boro.
- Nick Cameron, Glasgow Herald
Brilliant writing.
Jonathan Northcroft
An affectionate, tongue-not-quite-in-cheek lamentation for all that’s been lost from the game… Slight yet robust like a winger of the old school, this book jinks, charms and scores
When Saturday Comes
A paean to football before the days of big money and soulless stadia.
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