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Among the Fans: From the Ashes to the arrows, a year of watching the watchers - Wisden Sports Writing (Paperback)
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Among the Fans: From the Ashes to the arrows, a year of watching the watchers - Wisden Sports Writing (Paperback)

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Paperback 224 Pages / Published: 12/04/2012
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Synopsis
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD After nearly half a century in the world's press boxes, Patrick Collins did a remarkable thing. He took his eye off the ball, stepped away from his colleagues, and joined the throng: the people who pay the money. For a year, he relished sharing the experiences of the varied crowds at sporting events great and small: England's always hopeful, always frustrated, football supporters; the panama-hatted brigade at county cricket; the sodden, delirious golf-lovers at the Ryder Cup; and the hey-look-at-me darts fans. And he penetrates strange, semi-private subcultures like point-to-point and speedway. The result is original, wonderfully readable and very funny.

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN: 9781408158838
Number of pages: 224
Weight: 157 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 15 mm

MEDIA REVIEWS
His prose is always pitch-perfect. The result is a deeply enjoyable and often very funny book which should persuade those who didn't know it already just how brilliantly readable Collins is * Independent on Sunday *
Stylish ... an examination of the changing face of sporting fandom * The Times Sports Books of the Year *
Vivid * Observer Books of the Year *
Revelatory, illuminating the commitment and courage of true fandom * Sunday Telegraph *

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