Author: Rob Langham
Book Review: Football, Corruption and Lies
Football, Corruption and Lies
by John Sugden and Alan Tomlinson
Published by Routledge
2017, £19.99
So FIFA is corrupt. As observations go, it’s up there with the assertion that there are a few cars on the M25 – but, as with all truisms, it’s cathartic to explore to just how great a degree the blindingly obvious is true and why it is so.
Football Corruption and Lies is essentially …
Book Review: Saturday, 3pm
Saturday, 3pm
by Daniel Gray
Published by Bloomsbury
2016, £8.99
There’s much to be disappointed about in ‘modern football’ as it has come to be known and Daniel Gray commences his new book with a quick list of the more visible and agonising abuses.
However, that would be to misrepresent what he sets out to achieve for Saturday 3pm is a an elegiac, poetic tribute to what there is …
Book Review: The Routledge Handbook of Football Studies
The Routledge Handbook of Football Studies
edited by John Hughson, Kevin Moore, Ramà³n Spaaij and Joseph Maguire
Published by Routledge
2017, £150
Academic publishers have performed an invaluable service in recent times via the production of so-called handbooks, one-stop summaries of a field aimed at advanced students, postgraduates, libraries, researchers and policy makers with some crossover to the generally interested reader on occasion.
With football a serious topic of …
Book Review: The Night of the Virgin
The Night of the Virgin by Elliott Turner
Published by Round Ball Media LLC
2017, $15.99
A notable element of the football blogging scene when we started The Two Unfortunates in 2009 was the heavy representation of outstanding North American writers. Aside from the venerable Two Hundred Percent, still going strong after a decade, Spirit of Mirko (then called Mirko Bolesan) and Llandudno Jet Set, the websites we …
Book Review: The Wanderer
The Wanderer by Susan Gardiner
Published by Electric Blue Publishing
2016, £9.95
Frank Soo is famous as the first player of Chinese descent to play professional football in England. His career spanned either side of World War II and he is probably best known for his time at Stoke City, operating as a right-half/right winger on the opposite wing to future knight of the realm Stanley Matthews and using …