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COPYRIGHT 2005 The Spectator Ltd. (UK)
THOSE FEET: A SENSUAL HISTORY OF FOOTBALL by David Winner Bloomsbury, 14.99 [pounds sterling], pp. 274, ISBN 0747547386 12.99 [pounds sterling] (plus 2.25 [pounds sterling] p&p) 0870 800 4848
Same rubbish, new wrapper. This is the criticism usually levelled at those big bad soccer clubs who put out a new kit every season with minor alterations. Where the clubs lead, the publishers follow. David Winner, the author of this rambling and incoherent discussion of the national game, is a theoriser so prolific that he can prove his case on one page and refute it a few paragraphs later. To show that English football is bloodier than the continental game he quotes the...
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