Love Hurts
Motorways, Madness and Leeds United
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1997
Mainstream Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-85158-921-0 (ISBN)
Mainstream Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-85158-921-0 (ISBN)
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Most relationships between fans and a favourite football team go way beyond the casual. This book tells the story of some of the supporters of Leeds United, a club with a big reputation but little to show for it, during the season 1996-97.
Most relationships between a fan and a favourite football team go way beyond the casual. Almost always that relationship is a torrid, steamy and passionate love affair. A love affair that rarely lives up to expectations. A love affair that seldom satisfies and, most of the time, just plain hurts. So it is for supporters of Leeds United, a club with a big reputation secured in the late 1960s and early '70s, but tarnished in the '80s and rebuilt only partially in the '90s. Come the start of the 1996-97 season, Leeds were a Premiership club on paper, but on the pitch looked far from it. The supporters groaned and the new board acted swiftly, manager Howard Wilkinson being replaced by the once disgraced George Graham. The football world watched as the former Arsenal supreme sought to rebuild both Leeds and his own reputation. All the club had was time, hope and the love of its fans ...Love Hurts tells the story of some of those fans.
It is a diary of one extraordinary season, told and photographed in a uniquely personal way by two men for whom following Leeds is a labour of love requiring hours of motorway travel to matches offering variable amounts of torment and despair, of ecstasy and humour. The book pulls no punches, and points the finger whether the team wins or loses. No quarter is given and no fan of any team who reads is can fail to recognise the joy and pain it contains.
Most relationships between a fan and a favourite football team go way beyond the casual. Almost always that relationship is a torrid, steamy and passionate love affair. A love affair that rarely lives up to expectations. A love affair that seldom satisfies and, most of the time, just plain hurts. So it is for supporters of Leeds United, a club with a big reputation secured in the late 1960s and early '70s, but tarnished in the '80s and rebuilt only partially in the '90s. Come the start of the 1996-97 season, Leeds were a Premiership club on paper, but on the pitch looked far from it. The supporters groaned and the new board acted swiftly, manager Howard Wilkinson being replaced by the once disgraced George Graham. The football world watched as the former Arsenal supreme sought to rebuild both Leeds and his own reputation. All the club had was time, hope and the love of its fans ...Love Hurts tells the story of some of those fans.
It is a diary of one extraordinary season, told and photographed in a uniquely personal way by two men for whom following Leeds is a labour of love requiring hours of motorway travel to matches offering variable amounts of torment and despair, of ecstasy and humour. The book pulls no punches, and points the finger whether the team wins or loses. No quarter is given and no fan of any team who reads is can fail to recognise the joy and pain it contains.
Neil Jeffries has worked as a journalist since 1981, having written for various magazines along the way, including Kerrang!, Mojo and Empire. He has written and edited half a dozen books on music but Love Hurts is his first book inspired by football. Fraser Marr studied photography at Goldsmith's College in London and his work has been published in magazines throughout the world.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 16.10.1997 |
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Zusatzinfo | 16pp colour and b&w illustrations |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 162 x 242 mm |
Gewicht | 525 g |
Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Fußball |
ISBN-10 | 1-85158-921-X / 185158921X |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-85158-921-0 / 9781851589210 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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