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Being a stranger to the shores of Old Blighty for most of my life, I relished the chance to do some background reading on the institution that is the British Football Song. Firstly, I must stress that the copy I read was published in 1992, so some of the chants seem a little out of date, and don’t include such gems as “Who Bombed Old Trafford?… Uwe, Uwe, Uwe’s Dad”. Nevertheless, it is an incredibly interesting book and provides a valuable insight into the diversity (and humour) of those terrace anthems. The book itself is divided into sections dealing with distinct geographical regions; London, North-West and the like. Not every team is included as some are deemed either “too small” or “too quiet” to warrant a mention (e.g. Bolton, Wimbledon etc.).
21 x 15 cms, softback, 200 pages.
1992
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