- Paperback: 240 pages
- Publisher: Birlinn Ltd (7 Aug 2008)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1841587354
- ISBN-13: 978-1841587356
- Product Dimensions: 19.3 x 13 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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- #71 in Books > Sports, Hobbies & Games > Football > European > European Leagues
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one of the most conclusive guides to supporting football in Scotland --Daily Record
'bloody funny and spot on about going to the game - in all its wierd and wonderful forms --Herald
'bloody funny and spot on about going to the game - in all its wierd and wonderful forms --Herald
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Some people bag Munros; Gary Sutherland hunts grounds. Come rain, shine, sleet and snow, he visits each of the 42 football grounds in Scotland during one season, documenting the singing, the swearing, the sheer nonsense of what occurs every Saturday afternoon (and sometimes Sundays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays too). A strange sort of safari, Hunting Grounds offers an alternative travelogue round Scotland that covers every aspect of the beautiful - and often not so beautiful - game: the town and their teams, the fans and their obsessions; from practical factors like public transport and facilities, to the more important things like grub and pubs. Bets are placed, buses are missed, tears are shed and pies are scoffed. Join him to re-live a glorious Scottish football season without leaving home.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Demystifying Scottish league football,
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This review is from: Hunting Grounds: A Scottish Football Safari (Paperback)
Stenhousemuir. Montrose. Cowdenbeath. Queen of the South. Some Scottish football league teams have strange sounding names. They may play just a few hours drive away but to nearly every English football supporter they might as well come from the other side of the world; except for Celtic and Rangers Scottish football is a complete mystery. Cappielow. Pittodrie. Ochilview Park. Even their ground names sound like someone with a bad case of laryngitis. If any curious Englishman would like to learn a little about football over the border this could do a lot worse than read this very entertaining little book.Sutherland crosses Scotland (and England to watch Berwick) to watch a match played at every Scottish league ground, and gives his comments on his experiences at each one. He gives us his impressions of each ground, the supporters and the atmosphere they create, gives his star rating of each match watched and samples a pie at half-time (he even gives us a pie recipe). This book isn't intended to be a guide to Scottish league football and should not be used as such. Instead it is a light-hearted book that is good fun to read. If it helps demystify Scottish football, as it did for me, that's fine too. I certainly know much more about teams like Alloa, Stranraer and Brechin City than I did before and I will take a little bit more notice of their results and league placings from now on.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Great present for a non-reader,
By Ellie "Ellie" (Glasgow) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Hunting Grounds: A Scottish Football Safari (Paperback)
Probably sounds like a weird title - 'great present for a non-reader' - but I bought this as a wee extra for my husband's Christmas. He's not known for a love of reading but he loved it. He supports a smaller team and has been to loads of the grounds mentioned and it gave him an insight into some of the ones he's never seen yet. The book is funny, easy to read, obviously very well researched and very easy to pick up and put down. Some of the humour is a wee bit 'Off the Ball-ish' so you can decide if that's a good thing or a bad thing. It got passed around all the male members of our family on Christmas Day and they still ask for a look at it when they're visiting - my husband doesn't believe in lending books!
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Fun but could have been so much more,
By A Reader (UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Hunting Grounds: A Scottish Football Safari (Paperback)
In this book the author decides to go on safari to all the Scottish football grounds.So what you get is a couple of pages on each club/ground with some information about how he got there and what the match was like. So far as it goes this is interesting and full of off beat humour as well as some Scottish football humour. But and for me its a big but the author didn't quite go far enough. There's not enough information for it to be a guidebook or travel book. The details on how to get the grounds vary wildly and more often than not the author is distracted by a fellow passenger, a nice view or the failings of Scotrail. Once he gets to the grounds he samples the pies (very important) and then takes a quick look around. Again some grounds get more information than others. The match reports are almost incidental but fun - how many people follow Scottish division 3 to know whether he's making it up or not. I did really enjoy the book but was left unsure who the audience was or what its aim was. Some more solid facts would make it a practical guide and a bit more narrative would have filled it out. It reminded me of a Newspaper column which takes a similar theme each week and is great so long as you don't read them back to back. As it was it's best enjoyed in small doses to avoid becoming repetative but it did make me smile and want to visit places like Brechin. Not just for football fans but it does help. Reading through it does sound a bit negative and three stars seems a bit harsh for a read I really enjoyed but it is a bit of a one trick pony because of the structure of the book. On a similar vien you could try A Season of Hell: Fin-de-siecle Football Guide to Scottish League Grounds which is the same idea a decade earlier but makes it more of personal challenge then a guide book.
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