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Travelling football fanatic Giles Goodhead drags a series of unsuspecting friends and family to experience eight of the world's most intense football derbies. From the noisiest (100,000 furious Barcelona fans simultaneously blowing whistles) to the scariest (trying to scalp a ticket in Istanbul), he describes the thrills of gate-crashing symbolically loaded grudge matches in cities split by football, including Glasgow, Milan, and Buenos Aires. Goodhead's adrenalin-soaked book is a modern commentary on tribalism around the globe.

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews   6 of 7 people found the following review helpful: Bill Bryson eat your heart out, 14 Mar 2003 By  "toptotts" - See all my reviews This was a very Funny book. Maybe as good as Fever Pitch - perhaps better in some ways because I'd rather go to Milan and Istambul than Highbury. The book starts with Madrid vs Barcelona when Figo went back and doesn't let up until Spurs vs Arsenal when Campbell went back (traitor). Beyond the football this was simply very funny a la Bryson....  Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? (Report this)   2 of 2 people found the following review helpful: Hilariously self-obsessed, 27 Mar 2004 By  Seamus Sweeney "reader" (Dublin) - See all my reviews    This review is from: Us V Them (Paperback) The concept of Goodhead's book is an interesting one. But the execution is comically bad. Aside from the selection of derbies (is Prague really such a hotbed of football passion, more so than Cairo or indeed Liverpool, or an excuse for another weekend away in a pleasant city?) there's the amazing self-obsessed tone of the whole enterprise. Goodhead imagines his search for a ticket and his search for a meal are of enormous interest. One keeps reading to see how high his egotism can scale. Goodhead's opinions are all incredibly cliched, his descriptions of football hamfisted, his autobiographical musings without exception trite and boring. The book reads like the boring diary entries of an EuroRailer. In mitigation, you do keep reading - it is an easy read.  Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? (Report this)   4 of 5 people found the following review helpful: Not great, 21 May 2003 By  "parklaneeddie" - See all my reviews If you are an old school supporter who knew that football existed before Euro96 and Gazzamania, avoid this book like the plague. Next time you are at White Hart Lane, Upton Park or Anfield etc. look around the pub and see how many people you reckon could have lived in the USA and in the space of one season gone to games in England, Scotland, Spain, Turkey, Argentine & Mexico??? That's what is described here. He uses business contacts to get tickets, he gets into WHL as a guest of the Spurs chairman! It's wrtitten like he's never queued all night for big match tickets in his life, he's always got a mate who can sort him out. If you personally refer to our national game as "footy", you'll love the book! A quick and easy read.  Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? (Report this) › See all 10 customer reviews...		Most Recent Customer Reviews awful from start to finish The author appears to know nothing about football. His descriptions of the action are incredibly bad. In one chapter, he doesn't even get to go to the match. Read more Published on 20 Jul 2004 Snappy entertainment A book like this could easily have been a street-life adventure, like Bill Buford's 'Among the Thugs. Read more Published on 13 Mar 2004 by Always Red Boring Boring Goodhead I have no idea how this book got published. It is little more than a watered down version of Fever Pitch, written by an author who somehow managed to con a publishing house into... Read more Published on 30 Jun 2003 by crazyhorsefc The Tao of The Kakapo Besides being an education for me on world cup soccer, I really enjoyed the humorous aspect of the author's adventures. Read more Published on 20 Jun 2003 by psbrogna A Derby Day Delight! Brilliant! OK, so he stole my idea for a book, but Giles Goodhead writes it suberbly. With his passion for the game and his sense of humour the book is a fantastic read and... Read more Published on 5 May 2003 by David Wiltshire Sleep Safely Paul Theroux The idea for this book is an excellent one, but I'm afraid the contents do not live up to the concept. Read more Published on 14 April 2003 by Mr. R. Aitken Simon Kuper meets Bill Bryson From the title I was half-expecting another of those hooligan war stories. Wrong! This is a comedy travel book and a quick read. Read more Published on 26 Mar 2003 by Always Red Search Customer Reviews