Going to the Match The Passion for F..., Duncan Hamilton
Going to the Match The Passion for F..., Duncan Hamilton
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Going to the Match: The Passion for Football
The Perfect Gift for Football Fans

Author: Duncan Hamilton

Narrator: David Mounfield

Unabridged: 11 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/28/2018

Synopsis

A celebration of football by award-winning sports writer, Duncan Hamilton.

A massive audience in sitting-rooms, parks and pubs watched England in the 2018 World Cup. Yet as Duncan Hamilton demonstrates with style, insight and wit in Going to the Match, watching on TV is no substitute for being there.

Hamilton embarks on a richly entertaining, exquisitely crafted journey through football. Glory game or grass roots, England v Slovenia or Guiseley v Hartlepool, he delves beneath the action to illuminate the stories which make the sport endlessly compelling.

Along the way he marvels at present-day titans Harry Kane, Mo Salah, Kevin De Bruyne and Paul Pogba, reflects on sepia-tinted magicians Stanley Matthews, Jimmy Greaves, Bobby Charlton and Pele, and assesses managerial giants from Brian Clough and Jose Mourinho to Arsene Wenger and Gareth Southgate.

The odyssey takes Hamilton from Fleetwood to Berlin, via Glasgow and a Manchester derby, making detours into art, cinema, literature and politics as he explores the game's ever-changing culture and character.

The result, like the L.S. Lowry painting that inspired the book, is a football masterpiece.

(P)2018 Hodder & Stoughton Limited

About Duncan Hamilton

Duncan Hamilton is a journalist who has won two William Hill Sports Book of the Year Prizes. He has been nominated on a further four occasions. He has also claimed two British Sports Book Awards and is the only writer to have won the Wisden Cricket Book of the Year on three occasions. His biography of the Chariots of Fire runner Eric Liddell, For the Glory, was a New York Times bestseller. He most recently collaborated with Jonny Bairstow on the cricketer's autobiography, A Clear Blue Sky. He lives at the foot of the Yorkshire Dales.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Greville on October 03, 2018

Every once in awhile – and it is a extremely rare occurrence and treat – you pick up a book and it takes you over completely and transports you to a different world or tugs at your heartstrings and emotions reminding you of what once was and is forever lost. There are not many authors who possess th......more

Goodreads review by Mahlon on April 10, 2019

In the hands of Duncan Hamilton football is elevated to high art and truly becomes the beautiful game. He paints word pictures that will remain etched on the readers brain long after they put down the book. In Going to the Match he takes inspiration from the painting of the same name, chronicling th......more

Goodreads review by Alexander on May 24, 2020

Hamilton's love of football football shines through in each chapter. He chose a great array of matches and subjects (though two chapters are grim reading if you support Arsenal), ranging from Sunday League, WSL, Premier League, EFL, and Internationals. A great book that you an read in spurts as each......more

Goodreads review by Rage on March 12, 2020

4.5. My favourite football author proves, once again, why he's my favourite. I can't even begin to describe - you'll have to read it for yourself. Hamilton has a knack for bringing out all the deepest, grandest, most wonderful, and most painful emotions that football conjures; he gets right to the h......more

Goodreads review by Joe on August 02, 2020

This book probably shouldn’t be as compelling as it is. In “Going to the Match”, the veteran sports journalist Duncan Hamilton criss-crosses England, taking in games from the heights of the Premier League down to the depths of non-league and Sunday league, in a quest to work out why so many of us fi......more

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Hamilton is steeped in the history and traditions of football and communicates his knowledge lightly and with wit and intelligence. Above all, though, this is a fan's-eye view that brilliantly expresses the passion that millions like him, in pursuit of happiness and belonging, feel for the beautiful game. Simply magnificent. Mail on Sunday

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