num_pages: 160
description: Overpaid players. Sunday lunchtime kick-offs. Absurd ticket prices. Non-black boots. Football's menu of ills is long. Where has the joy gone? Why do we bother? Saturday 3pm offers a glorious antidote. It is here to remind you that football can still sing to your heart.Warm heartfelt and witty here are fifty short essays of prose poetry dedicated to what is good in the game. These are not wallowing nostalgia; they are things that remain sweet and seeing a ground from the train brackets on vidiprinters ball hitting bar Jimmy Armfield's voice listening to the results in a traffic jam football towns and autograph-hunters. This is fan culture at its finest words to transport you somewhere else and identify with words to hide away in a pub and luxuriate in.Saturday 3pm is a book of love letters to football and a clarion call helping us find the romance in the game all over again.
language: English
title: Saturday, 3pm: 50 Eternal Delights of Modern Football
publisher: Bloomsbury Sport