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'Football is a pleasure that hurts'

This unashamedly emotional history of football is a homage to the romance and drama, spectacle and passion of a 'great pagan mass'. Through stories of superstition, heartbreak, tragedy, luck, heroes and villains, those who lived for football and those who died for it, Eduardo Galeano celebrates the glory of a game that - however much the rich and powerful try to control it - still retains its magic.

'The Uruguayan whose writing got right to the heart of football ... readers were never in doubt of the warmth of the blood running through his veins' Guardian

'Galeano can run rings round our glamorous football intelligentsia' When Saturday Comes

'Stands out like Pele on a field of second-stringers' New Yorker

Football in Sun and Shadow

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'Football is a pleasure that hurts'This unashamedly emotional history of football is a homage to the romance and drama, spectacle... Read more

    Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
    Publication Date: 03/05/2018
    ISBN13: 9780241355350, 978-0241355350
    ISBN10: 0241355354

    Number of Pages: 272

    Non Fiction , Sport

    Description

    'Football is a pleasure that hurts'

    This unashamedly emotional history of football is a homage to the romance and drama, spectacle and passion of a 'great pagan mass'. Through stories of superstition, heartbreak, tragedy, luck, heroes and villains, those who lived for football and those who died for it, Eduardo Galeano celebrates the glory of a game that - however much the rich and powerful try to control it - still retains its magic.

    'The Uruguayan whose writing got right to the heart of football ... readers were never in doubt of the warmth of the blood running through his veins' Guardian

    'Galeano can run rings round our glamorous football intelligentsia' When Saturday Comes

    'Stands out like Pele on a field of second-stringers' New Yorker

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