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.
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
ISBN: 9780349108377
Number of pages: 256
Weight: 198 g
Dimensions: 199 x 165 x 19 mm
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
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