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Sing When You're Winning: Football Fans, Terrace Songs and a Search for the Soul of Soccer (Hardcover)

by Colin Irwin (Author) "'Are you a spy?' 'Beg pardon?' 'A spy? From Oldham?' The portly bloke poking me in the ribs at Brentford FC, chortling at his own..." (more)
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  • Hardcover: 296 pages
  • Publisher: Andre Deutsch Ltd (1 Aug 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0233001840
  • ISBN-13: 978-0233001845
  • Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 13.8 x 3.2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 443,162 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Football supporters are the lifeblood of the national game. Battered by escalating admission prices, executive boxes, corporate hospitality, swanky out of town stadiums and blanket television coverage dragging footie far from its working class roots, the fans still turn out in their masses to sing their hearts out for the lads. And the songs they sing are something else. Tribal anthems, full of passion, wit and cultural identity that can instantly inform, delight and provoke in equal measures, as bizarre and apparently random as their chosen songs often are. Following his voyages of discovery around Ireland and England, Colin Irwin goes off on his travels again, this time donning bobble hat and scarf in pursuit of the ultimate football anthem. From Gillingham to John O'Groats FC, he joins the fans of Liverpool, Manchester United, Chelsea, Newcastle and all the other leading clubs in the country...and many obscure ones too. He looks at the history of the songs, drinks with the fans in an attempt to unravel the mystery of the seemingly spontaneous songmaking, devours a lot of dodgy pies and attempts to launch his own terrace chant. After meeting a bewildering array of colourful, noisy characters with interesting haircuts, he returns with a sore throat and a million anecdotes...

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars terrific, 20 Aug 2006
Good to read a football book where the heroes are the fans. Most football books about fans dwell on the hooligans or glorify violence, this is a rare book celebrating the fans for their commitment to clubs and goes deeply into the background of the songs they sing.
Basically the author travels the country - including Wales and Scotland - joining the fans and drinking in the pubs with them afterwards to get their stories and their explanations for their obsessions. King of them all is Dave Burnley, who changed his name by deed poll and lives 80 miles from Burnley but who hasn't missed a game for 32 years. Amazing character! He's had pneumonia twice from sleeping rough cos he couldn't get home.
It's a very funny book but it's also full of information about the history of the clubs, players and songs and is quite thought-provoking about the way football is going with the ordinary fans being priced out of the game by the executive box brigade. Brilliant chapters about Chelsea and Manchester United but the best bits are when he travels to the smaller grounds like TNS in Wales and Wick near John O'Groats in Scotland.
All football fans - and directors - should read it!
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The beautiful game, beautiful book, 14 Sep 2006
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Loved this book. Very funny, very gentle, very poignant, very provocative. It gets a bit misty-eyed in parts as Irwin is clearly very sentimental about football, but banging on about Bovril and Wagon Wheels as he does a circuit of British football grounds, offering acidic asides about the new generation of prawn sandwich-crunching directors and supporters bussed in from hundreds of miles away. All this under the guise of a book about the genesis of the songs they sing on the terraces, which is genuinely fascinating. Really enjoyed it. Will be checking out his other books now.
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2 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Is their an audio CD or DVD?, 4 Aug 2006
Colin,

Is there and audio and/or visual CD or DVD with the book?

Thanks,

David
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