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CAPTURING THE TRUE ESSENCE OF HE GAME

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DANIEL Gray revisits football’s fertile ground in his follow-up to the splendidly evocative ‘Saturday, 3pm’.
In Black Boots & Football Pinks, he celebrates 50 lost wonders of the beautiful game such as goalkeepers in trousers and hats, proper division names, turf patterns, pixelated scoreboards, and, of course, Saturday evening pink newspapers...” They were gritty stardust that made football special.”
His preface is called ‘Sketching the ghosts before they leave the room’ which neatly sums up what the book is all about. Football has...

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