The Silence of the Stands: Finding the Joy in Football's Lost Season

The Silence of the Stands: Finding the Joy in Football's Lost Season
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages : 177
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ISBN-10 : 9781399404051
ISBN-13 : 1399404059
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Book Synopsis The Silence of the Stands: Finding the Joy in Football's Lost Season by : Daniel Gray

Download or read book The Silence of the Stands: Finding the Joy in Football's Lost Season written by Daniel Gray and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-11-10 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2023 - FOOTBALL BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Powerful and poignant' Henry Winter 'Empathetic and poignant ... the game's answer to A Journal of the Plague Year' Harry Pearson 'The Durham City midfielder wore the resigned look of a man trying to find a jar of harissa in Farmfoods. Up front for Jarrow, a centre-forward darted around frenetically, as if chasing a kite during a hurricane...' When football disappeared in March 2020, writer and broadcaster Daniel Gray used its absence to reflect on everything the game meant to him. That bred a pledge: whenever and wherever fans were allowed to return, he would be there. The Silence of the Stands is the result of that pledge: a joyous travelogue documenting a precarious season, in which behind-closed-doors matches and travel restrictions combined to make trips to Kendal and Workington seem impossibly exotic. Offering a poignant peek at a surreal age and a slab of social history from the two-metre-distanced tea bar queue, this is the moving, heartfelt and surprisingly uplifting story of a unique season that no one wishes to repeat.


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