Soccer Talk: Life Under the Spell of the Round Ball

by Paul Gardner

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In an irreverent and opinionated style, Paul Gardner sounds off on a range of soccer-related topics including: coaching tactics, rules, referees, indoor soccer, the politics of the sport and its many great personalities from all over the world.

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"...This book brings to life something that you can hear from the way I’m talking, informed me as journalist, the World Cup in Argentina in 78. I genuinely believe that that tournament changed history. I think the generals, having repressed the people and had night curfews for I don’t know how long before we got there, simply couldn’t maintain that repression once they’d let the people out on to the streets...." (reviewed by Rob Hughes in FiveBooks).

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In an irreverent and opinionated style, Paul Gardner sounds off on a range of soccer-related topics including: coaching tactics, rules, referees, indoor soccer, the politics of the sport and its many great personalities from all over the world.

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