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name: Ian Plenderleith
about: I'm an EU-based German-Scottish writer and journalist. My first book was a collection of adult-oriented short stories (For Whom The Ball Rolls, Orion 2001), set in the soccer world, but more about 'being' than playing. Some years later, while living in the USA, I wrote a historical analysis of the wildly entertaining North American Soccer League of the 1970s - 'Rock n Roll Soccer' was published in the UK by Icon Books in 2014, and by Thomas Dunne in the US in 2015. The Quiet Fan (Unbound) was published in the autumn of 2018. It is a memoir seen through 12 football games spread between 1972 and 2011, each dealing with a minor issue like hope, despair, violence, birth, death and love (and Birmingham). It is currently being translated into Ita I'm an EU-based German-Scottish writer and journalist. My first book was a collection of adult-oriented short stories (For Whom The Ball Rolls, Orion 2001), set in the soccer world, but more about 'being' than playing. Some years later, while living in the USA, I wrote a historical analysis of the wildly entertaining North American Soccer League of the 1970s - 'Rock n Roll Soccer' was published in the UK by Icon Books in 2014, and by Thomas Dunne in the US in 2015. The Quiet Fan (Unbound) was published in the autumn of 2018. It is a memoir seen through 12 football games spread between 1972 and 2011, each dealing with a minor issue like hope, despair, violence, birth, death and love (and Birmingham). It is currently being translated into Italian. ...more