Englischer Fussball : A German's View of Our Beautiful Game

ISBN-13: 9780224080132 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 240 str.

Raphael Honigstein

Opis

Starting with the origin of the modern game in the late nineteenth century, Honigstein traces the development of English football from its public-school origins to the glory years of Ramsey and beyond, exploring the culture and foundational myths of a peculiarly English invention. Is English football really about manliness, hard work, fair play, and a never-say-die attitude? Why is there so little room in our game for individual brilliance? And just why are we so hung up on beating the Germans? Provocative, incisive, and very topical, "Englischer Fussball" is the product of an outsider's life-long love affair with English football, a book that explores the difference between how we see ourselves and how the rest of the world sees us. From hooligans to sex scandals, Wayne Rooney to Stanley Matthews, it asks what football can teach us about the English national character.

Recenzje

"Enlightening and entertaining... The holy trinity of football, fashion and music has rarely been written about so well and it takes a writer from the borderland between cultures like Honigstein to open our eyes to it" Guardian

O autorze

Raphael Honigstein has been covering English football since 1993, currently as a correspondent for the Süddeutsche Zeitung. He lives in London.