Inside the Divide
One City, Two Teams . . . The Old Firm
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2012
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Canongate Books (Verlag)
978-1-84767-839-3 (ISBN)
Canongate Books (Verlag)
978-1-84767-839-3 (ISBN)
The remarkable inside story of football's greatest rivalry
Since 1888, Rangers and Celtic football clubs have been locked into an intense and frequently explosive rivalry: Rangers the product of West Scotland's Protestant establishment, Celtic the team founded to raise money for the Catholic underclass of Glasgow.
On 2 January 2010 the two teams met in the Old Firm's New Year Derby, a fixture that had been banned for ten years because of the trouble it brought with it. Richard Wilson puts that game at the centre of a book which delves into the history and widens out to the cultural resonance of the fixture within Scotland. It is a potent mix of close-up observation and big-picture thinking, with insight, understanding and depth.
Since 1888, Rangers and Celtic football clubs have been locked into an intense and frequently explosive rivalry: Rangers the product of West Scotland's Protestant establishment, Celtic the team founded to raise money for the Catholic underclass of Glasgow.
On 2 January 2010 the two teams met in the Old Firm's New Year Derby, a fixture that had been banned for ten years because of the trouble it brought with it. Richard Wilson puts that game at the centre of a book which delves into the history and widens out to the cultural resonance of the fixture within Scotland. It is a potent mix of close-up observation and big-picture thinking, with insight, understanding and depth.
Richard Wilson was born in Glasgow and spent almost 10 years at the Sunday Times Scotland, as deputy sports editor, then staff sports writer. In 2002, he won the Jim Rodger Memorial Award for best young sports writer. In 2003, at the Scottish Press Awards, he was named Sports Writer of the Year. He has regularly been nominated in the Sports Feature Writer of the Year category. He has written extensively about football, boxing and golf.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 2.8.2012 |
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Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 130 x 195 mm |
Gewicht | 150 g |
Themenwelt | Sport ► Ballsport ► Fußball |
ISBN-10 | 1-84767-839-4 / 1847678394 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-84767-839-3 / 9781847678393 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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