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Loading... Bloody Confused!: A Clueless American Sportswriter Seeks Solace in English…by Chuck Culpepper
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. I can see, quite clearly, why a lot of football (soccer) purists would be upset with this book. First of all, he calls it soccer (as he should), second -- he never really mentions MLS (who can blame him, it's about England and football) and third, he talks about American sports. All of these things are positives, no matter what others might think. This is not for the hardcore fan (unless you're an open-minded fan who wants to know what it's like for non-expats just getting into the sport or someone who also enjoys American sports, such as myself), it's for the casual fan, the non-fan and the general sports fan. And that's what I like about the book. Culpepper's writing style draws you in and keeps you reading. It's not a great treatise on the wonders of English football. It's a love story -- a man and his team. It's something any fan can identify with. And, of course, Culpepper does address the issue of the fact that he chose a team. But, in the end, it's clear (at least to me and perhaps to Culpepper, and the friends he makes along the way) that the teams choose us. (  ) callmecayce | Nov 6, 2008 |   no reviews | add a review
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Chuck Culpepper was a veteran sports journalist edging toward burnout . . . then he went to London and discovered the high-octane, fanatical (and bloody confusing!) world of English soccer.
After covering the American sports scene for fifteen years, Chuck Culpepper suffered from a profound case of Common Sportswriter Malaise. He was fed up with self-righteous proclamations, steroid scandals, and the deluge of in-your-face PR that saturated the NFL, the NBA, and MLB. Then in 2006, he moved to London and discovered a new and baffling world—the renowned Premiership soccer league. Culpepper pledged his loyalty to Portsmouth, a gutsy, small-market team at the bottom of the standings. As he puts it, “It was like childhood, with beer.”
Writing in the vein of perennial bestsellers such as Fever Pitch and Among the Thugs, Chuck Culpepper brings penetrating insight to the vibrant landscape of English soccer—visiting such storied franchises as Manchester United, Chelsea, and Liverpool . . . and an equally celebrated assortment of pubs. Bloody Confused! will put a smile on the face of any sports fan who has ever questioned what makes us love sports in the first place.
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