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The Far Corner: A Mazy Dribble Through North-East Football
Harry Pearson
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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.
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Praise for The Far Corner: A Mazy Dribble Through North-East Football
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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 TELEGRAPHForget 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 YEARBritain's best ever football book. - NORTHERN ECHOAcidly funny, there is lots of relevant social comment. One of the best of the new genre. - IRISH TIMES
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