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For Whom The Ball Rolls [Paperback]

Ian Plenderleith (Author)

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Paperback: 288 pages
Publisher: Orion; New edition edition (7 Aug 2003)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0752842579
ISBN-13: 978-0752842578
Product Dimensions: 12.9 x 2.2 x 19.8 cm

Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)

Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,163,676 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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The Scotsman, August 23, 2003

"Stories that bring out the passion, fears, hopes and failures of his characters, football fans or not."

The Sunday Times, November 16, 2003

"[Plenderleith's] is a bittersweet world in which football can bring joy, misery and bewilderment in the same story."

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I DID NOT want to go to the village football pitch on my own, I wanted my dad and Uncle Tam to come with me. Read the first page

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5.0 out of 5 stars Tight, punchy and Scottish, 30 Mar 2001

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This review is from: For Whom The Ball Rolls: Football Stories and More (Paperback)

Best sports book I've read for a long time, though this is more than that. These short stories are like some absurdist mixture of Ernest Hemingway, Simone de Beauvoir and Brian Glanville. Funny and carefully observed tales about beautiful small moments and mundane f*ck up people that show the glorious futility of life and made me fall in love with football all over again (my wife isn't going to be pleased).

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4.0 out of 5 stars stories of the lonely and luckless, 21 Aug 2003

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If you like you're characters lonely and luckless but with a black sense of humour to help them through, read these stories. It might help to like football, but it's not essential. I loved (and laughed at) most of all the story about the corporate fan forced to sit at an England match between a client and a xenophobic herbert. Only four stars, though, because the last third of the collection are not football stories - they're still good, but the book seems to lose a bit of its momentum by changing tack.

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4.0 out of 5 stars sarcastic humanist Britperv, 19 Aug 2003

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Plenderleith's strange tales of Loserville are acidly witty yet he manages to keep a warmth for his central luckless protagonists. I found this volume through the writer's work at onetouchfootball - if you are into football you'll love the first 3/5 of the book. However, it's the last few non-sports stories that give a glimpse of a new and refreshing (and kind of Britishly pervy) voice.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A rarity indeed - fine football fiction!
No one seems to publish short stories much any more, while decent fiction based around football comes along about once a decade. Read more

Published on 19 April 2002

5.0 out of 5 stars A universe ruled by Philip Roth and Bobby Charlton
I'm not crazy about sports books and thought this would be a straight football stories thing when a friend lent it to me. But the cover doesn't tell the whole story. Read more

Published on 5 Dec 2001

5.0 out of 5 stars Great read for footies and others
Plenderleith has captured the true meaning of football for many of us: It is not about results and championships, but how it influences our daily life in various ways. Read more

Published on 7 Nov 2001 by leitzchn@public1.ptt.js.cn

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