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Us v Them: Journeys to the World's Greatest Football Derbies (Paperback)

by Giles Goodhead (Author)

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Paperback: 188 pages
Publisher: Viking (6 Mar 2003)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0670913405
ISBN-13: 978-0670913404
Product Dimensions: 23.5 x 15.4 x 1.5 cm

Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)

Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 678,965 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Football writing's answer to Bill Bryson.

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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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5.0 out of 5 stars Bill Bryson eat your heart out, 14 Mar 2003

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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....

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2.0 out of 5 stars Hilariously self-obsessed, 26 Mar 2004

By	Seamus Sweeney "reader" (Dublin) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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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.

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1.0 out of 5 stars Not great, 21 May 2003

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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.

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1.0 out of 5 stars 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 19 Jul 2004

5.0 out of 5 stars Snappy entertainment
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Published on 12 Mar 2004 by Always Red

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5.0 out of 5 stars Simon Kuper meets Bill Bryson
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