Football, Bombs and Bullets: Sometimes More Than A Game

by Ludden, John
ISBN: 9798370970986
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Overview

George Orwell once claimed: "Football has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting." From the killing fields of the 1916 Somme, to the Azteca stadium in 1986. A selection of occasions when the beautiful game has been used both as a weapon and indeed a field for revenge. And much more. As the bullets flew and the bombs dropped the game has always continued on and on...
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Author: Ludden, John
  • ISBN: 9798370970986
  • Condition: New
  • Dimensions: 9.00 x 0.21
  • Number Of Pages: 102
  • Publication Year: 2022
Language: English