- Paperback: 144 pages
- Publisher: Robson Books Ltd; illustrated edition edition (21 Oct 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1861058535
- ISBN-13: 978-1861058539
- Product Dimensions: 27.4 x 21.4 x 1.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,537,514 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"'Some of the biggest names in football have come to Robson Books, but not in a way any of them expected...' - Publishing News"
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'Football Dreams' is a book of digital paintings, portraying 100-plus of English football's major figures in scenarios that suit their personalities. These include: Wayne Rooney as a streetwise scouser huddling with his mates in a burger bar; David Beckham crucified in front of a tower block estate after his 1998 World Cup sending-off; Roy Keane as a 'Big Brother' contestant; Jurgen Klinsmann as a German soldier proffering a football as a peace offering in the First World War Christmas truce and Ron Atkinson frantically dancing in the street at the Notting Hill Carnival to atone for his sins. These digital paintings, produced on a computer, have an uncanny photographic quality. Whether the illustration is Alex Ferguson as a shop steward running the boardroom or Brian Clough as a solitary drinker in a bar, it Looks Like the real thing. Starring everyone from Harry Redknapp, Paolo Di Canio, Micky Quinn, Sol Campbell, Thierry Henri, Zola, Robbie Savage and Roman Abramovich.
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Football had always been about heroes and the heroes kept coming in the age of hype. Read the first page
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Hard to find, well worth the effort,
By Nice Guy Eddie (London) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Football Dreams: Players in the Real World (Paperback)
You have to spend time with this book, in a quiet, intimate space, perhaps a dark corner somewhere, because flicking through the pages won't do it justice.
Put simply, it is digitally altered pictures of famous people in football placed in surreal or fantasy surroundings with poignant captions that capture the essence of that person. You can't just call them 'jokes' as that would be a complete injustice. Some are gut bustingly funny but others act as a comment on that person's life/career/bigotries/outlook/public persona...the list goes on. I don't see the point in writing endless lists that you can get from official reviews, but to give you an example, Jurgen Klinsmann is pictured in World War I German uniform coming across the no man's land of the trenches with a football in his hand. Get the idea? No? Well get the book, look at some of the other entries and you'll soon get into its groove. I first heard about this at Christmas and it was reviewed in some pretty heavyweight newspapers too, but could I find it anywhere? I tried several London bookshops, even getting them to ring nearby branches, but nobody seemed to have it. Why? I gave up but then last week a mate rang up raving about a football book he'd just bought and I thought, hang on....and he directed me here. At last! Enough of the history lesson. This book is unreal, surreal, briliantly funny, very thought provoking and visually is the best thing I think I have ever seen. If you know anything about football you'll get something out of this. If you know a lot about football, you'll keep turning to it because even when you think you 'get' the main theme of each individual entry, you spot something else. I think it's brilliant and really can't see why it has been so difficult to get hold of. So many more people should know about this masterful piece of football devilment
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Football Dreams,
This review is from: Football Dreams: Players in the Real World (Paperback)
‘Football dreams’ seems such a straight-forward idea but that is definitely where the simplicity stops. The book is a brilliant collaboration of satirical pictures involving numerous stars and legends from the past. A picture that comes straight to mind is José Mourinho standing at his doorstep with a pint of milk in hand looking like a typical British citizen with the caption reading 'within days of moving in, José understood the English way of life perfectly. A very clever man...'.Although at times the idea can be very subtle and can be hard to see the idea of the picture but it never fails to amuse you once you do understand it. Whilst the general thesis of the book is bent more towards the idea of amusement there are some which contain a greater sentimental value and are there to make you think and remind of you of once great men. One example being Clough sitting in a bar alone drinking his last orders. This is a book that you will not forget and will continually look back at. A truly inspired idea.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Not seen anything like this,
By New to all this (London) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Football Dreams: Players in the Real World (Paperback)
I heard about this book from a flatmate and I eventually looked at this book he was raving on about. Got to say I am glad I did as it is unlike anything I have seen before. It is made up entirely of pictures of players and also some managers in sort of fantasy situations, like Harry Redknapp as a ferry shopper loaded down with foreign booze & fags, whinging on about how he would buy British if he could but the foreign stuff is so good. You get the message, right? There is a picture of Abramovich, all surrounded by heavies as he watches his belowed Chel£sea with that gormless grin on his face and with a very subtle caption. But the thing is these are not cartoons, instead they are photographs that somehow look like paintings, it is difficult to describe without showing the actual picture but they are so lifelike and in every case, the artist has got the person exactly right. There is a picture that made me lol of Ron Atkinson dancing in the street at the Notting hill festival and clearly hating every moment of it and I would also mention the very moving pictures of George Best and Brian Clough, which must have been done as a tribute after their deaths. There is also a picture of Bekcham wearing nickers in the changing room in front of his team mates. The bloke who did this knows his stuff and has also got a lot of guts. Apparently this book is impossible to buy in the shops so I have ordered a copy from here as I do not want to keep borrowing my mates copy. There should be posters of these pictures and I do not understand why this book has not had a lot more publicity. I say it is all pictures but that is not quite true as there are some pages of explanation about the picture and about why people in football behave in the way they do and they are also very VERY sharp. I have never seen anything like this and I would totally recommend it.
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