![]() *WINNER OF THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR*įever Pitch is Nick Hornby's million-copy-selling, award-winning football classic *** ONE OF TOP 20 FAVOURITE FOOTBALL BOOKS - VIEW ALL HERE *** Some of the humour is as full-blooded as a tackle by Bryan Robson, and if at times the author wanders off at a tangent, like Chris Waddle on a bad day, then that is the capricious nature of football.” - Daily Telegraph “Britain's best ever football book.” - Northern Echo ![]() Recommended' Phil Shaw, Independent Books of the Year “Pearson's odyssey is an oddity, a book on the people's game to make people laugh aloud. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Forget Nick Hornby's FEVER PITCH, this is the football book of the new age, a mixture of heroism, humour and Norman Hunter, but mainly humour.” - Sunday Times Books of the Year Shortlisted for the 1995 William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award.Ī book in which Wilf Mannion rubs shoulders with The Sunderland Skinhead: recollections of Len Shakleton blight the lives of village shoppers: and the appointment of Kevin Keegan as manager of Newcastle is celebrated by a man in a leather stetson, crooning 'For The Good Times' to the accompaniment of a midi organ, THE FAR CORNER is a tale of heroism and human frailty, passion and the perils of eating an egg mayonnaise stottie without staining your trousers. ![]()
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