Those feet
Subtitle: a sensual history of English soccer
By: David Winner
Publisher: Overlook Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781468303506
Subjects: Social aspects; Miscellanea; Soccer; SPORTS & RECREATION; History
Description: "In this playful, witty and highly original look at English soccer, David Winner, author of the acclaimed Brilliant Orange, journeys to the heart of an essential English pastime and sheds new light on the true nature of a rapidly changing game that was never really meant to be beautiful. With the same insightful eye he brought to his bestselling study of Dutch soccer, Winner shows how Victorian sexual anxiety underlies England's many World Cup failures. He reveals the connection between Roy Keane and a soldier who never lived but died in the Charge of the Light Brigade. And he demonstrates how thick mud and wet leather shaped the contours of the English soul"--
Table of contents: title: Sexy football; title: Reeping the whirlwind; title: In ancient time; title: Roys, Keens, and Rovers; title: It's cold and we're rubbish; title: The phantom limb; title: Cooling the blood; title: Italian job; title: The Lion; title: Boots and balls; title: Meet the ancestors.