A book in which Wilf Mannion rubs shoulders with The Sunderland Skinhead: recollections of Len Shakleton blight the lives of village shoppers: and the appointment of Kevin Keegan as manager of Newcastle is celebrated by a man in a leather stetson, crooning 'For The Good Times' to the accompaniment of a midi organ, THE FAR CORNER is a tale of heroism and human frailty, passion and the perils of eating an egg mayonnaise stottie without staining your trousers.
Harry Pearson is a journalist and writer who contributes regularly to the GUARDIAN, WHEN SATURDAY COMES and a number of those men's magazines with women in bras on the cover. His second book, RACING PIG S AND GIANT MARROWS, was shortlisted for the Thomas Cook/DAILY TELEGRAPH Travel Book of the Year.
Title: The Far Corner: A Mazy Dribble Through North East Football
Author: Harry Pearson
ISBN: 9780349108377
Binding:
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Publication Date: 1995-08-03
Number of Pages: 256
Weight: 0.2223 kg
Savagely funny and frequently moving ... Some of the humour is as full-blooded as a tackle by Bryan Robson ... At times the author wanders off at a tangent, like Chris Waddle on a bad day, then that is the capricious nature of football * DAILY TELEGRAPH *
Forget Nick Horby's FEVER PITCH, this is the football book of the new age, a mix of heroism, humour and Norman Hunter, but mainly humour * SUNDAY TIMES SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR *
Britain's best ever football book * NORTHERN ECHO *
Acidly funny, there is lots of relevant social comment. One of the best of the new genre * IRISH TIMES *