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2021-11-27

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brilliant...watched non league football for years in the 70,s and 80,s and this bought back memories,well written,funny and hard to put down
 
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glenthered | 2 andere besprekingen | Oct 6, 2022 |
This genial book lovingly and amusingly recounts the author's youthful obsession with his historically inept hometown football team, Bromley, of the Isthmian League, which at that time represented probably the sixth or seventh level of the English football pyramid. In the bargain the reader also gets a chronicle of the more general tragicomedies of adolescence; three schools in a year, an unrequited crush, trying to ingratiate himself with the school toughs, the valentine that never came, a seemingly endless quest for a job, and his own play for a Sunday league team which managed to be even worse than Bromley all have a role to play here. The author looks back at it all with a dry, self-deprecating humor which is quite winning. This was an intriguing world to enter.… (meer)
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Big_Bang_Gorilla | 2 andere besprekingen | Sep 3, 2019 |
Easy to read enjoyable book.
Dave has over 1000 football programmes but because he and his wife are moving to America he needs to only take 32 programmes.
This is a story of obsession for the Beautiful game.
½
 
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Daftboy1 | 2 andere besprekingen | Nov 22, 2016 |
I haven't been to a single one of the matches described in this book but I get the drift. Peter Crouch thinks it's good - that's good; Adrian Chiles too - that puts doubts in my mind.
 
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