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The Silence of the Stands: Finding the Joy in Football's Lost Season

The Silence of the Stands: Finding the Joy in Football's Lost Season


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LONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2023 - FOOTBALL BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Powerful and poignant' Henry Winter 'Empathetic and poignant … the game's answer to A Journal of the Plague Year' Harry Pearson 'The Durham City midfielder wore the resigned look of a man trying to find a jar of harissa in Farmfoods. Up front for Jarrow, a centre-forward darted around frenetically, as if chasing a kite during a hurricane...' When football disappeared in March 2020, writer and broadcaster Daniel Gray used its absence to reflect on everything the game meant to him. That bred a pledge: whenever and wherever fans were allowed to return, he would be there. The Silence of the Stands is the result of that pledge: a joyous travelogue documenting a precarious season, in which behind-closed-doors matches and travel restrictions combined to make trips to Kendal and Workington seem impossibly exotic. Offering a poignant peek at a surreal age and a slab of social history from the two-metre-distanced tea bar queue, this is the moving, heartfelt and surprisingly uplifting story of a unique season that no one wishes to repeat.

Table of Contents:
Introduction – Jarrow 3 v 1 Durham City 1 Middlesbrough 1 v 1 Bournemouth 2 Lancaster City 1 v 2 Basford United 3 Workington 2 v 0 Mossley 4 Kendal Town 0 v 3 Tadcaster Albion 5 Southport 1 v 1 Alfreton Town 6 Cowdenbeath 2 v 0 Brechin City 7 Raith Rovers 3 v 1 Dundee 8 Rothbury 5 v 1 Forest Hall 9 Billingham Synthonia 0 v 2 West Auckland Town Epilogue Selected bibliography Acknowledgements

About the Author :
Daniel Gray is the author of Extra Time, Black Boots and Football Pinks, Saturday, 3pm and Scribbles in the Margins. He has written eight other books on football, politics, history and travel. His recent work has included screenwriting, presenting social history on television, editing a football magazine and writing across a number of national titles. He also presents the When Saturday Comes podcast.

Review :
When society locked down, football played on without fans. A powerful and poignant look at life behind closed doors. Joy is at the heart of Gray's writing; his delight in the little things, humble settings and small human dramas involved in the game. From the dark of Covid, this breezy and bright love letter to football was produced. Smile. Enjoy. A vivid, funny reminder of what was the weirdest time ever to be a football fan. Empathetic and poignant, it's the game's answer to A Journal of the Plague Year. Gray is a master of observing and amplifying the things we love about football but wonder if anyone else even notices Gray writes like Lowry paints. Superb Gray is an endearing and authentic football observer, and this book reaffirms the meaning and importance of football in so many ways. A joyous travelogue documenting a rocky season…offering a poignant peak at a surreal age and a slab of social history…moving, heartfelt and surprising uplifting. His peerless eye for the game's endless little oddities and charms is used to chronicle his own return to the terraces after the forced exile of lockdown. No-one else writes with such obvious appreciation and warmth for the game. We're spoiled that the writer engaged with this task is Daniel Gray, who navigated complicated lockdown rules to produce this poetic account of football while the fans were locked out. Covid could not stop football but it could stop fans from attending a game. It is a time that deserves to be recorded. It has found its peerless chronicler in Daniel Gray. A joyous travelogue documenting a precarious season…moving, heartfelt and surprisingly uplifting


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781399404044
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Sport
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Finding the Joy in Football's Lost Season
  • ISBN-10: 1399404040
  • Publisher Date: 10 Nov 2022
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • No of Pages: 176


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