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The Beautiful Game (#1)

Paperback • 2017 • 1. edition

The Beautiful Game (#1)

By Alan Gibbons

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About the book

At an Old Trafford game, Lennie hears Man U fans chanting about Hillsborough. Enraged, he joins in with a retaliatory chant about the Munich Disaster of '58. Appalled, his dad and granddad take Lennie on a whistlestop tour of the dark side of the beautiful game. Dad and Grandad know only too well the human cost of fan violence and official negligence, having experience racism in football fandom and survived the Hillsborough disaster.Interwoven with lots of facts about the history of football, th...Show more

Children’s / Teenage fiction: General, modern and contemporary fiction

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ISBN

9781781126912

Publisher

Barrington Stoke Ltd

Published year

2017

Language

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1

Original title

The Beautiful Game (#1)

Format

Paperback

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