The Bottom Corner - Hope, Glory and Non-League Football

Not since The Football Man has a book so captured the passion of the game. The Bottom Corner is a wonderful journey through life in the lower reaches of the football pyramid. A fascinating tale of a very different world of football from that of the overpaid stars of the television age' Barry DaviesIn these days of oligarch owners, superstar managers and players on sky-high wages, the tide is turning towards the lower reaches of the pyramid as fans search for football with a soul. Plucky underdogs or perennial underachievers, your local non-league team offers hope, drama or at least a Saturday afternoon ritual that's been going for decades. Nige Tassell spends a season in the non-league world. He meets the raffle-ticket seller who wants her ashes scattered in the centre-circle. The envelope salesman who discovered a future England international. The ex-pros still playing with undiluted passion on Sunday mornings. He spends time at clubs looking for promotion to the Football League, clubs just aiming to get eleven players on a pitch every week, and everything in between. One thing unites them: they all inhabit the heartland of the beautiful game.

Product details

• Authors: Nige Tassell, Tassell Nige
• Publisher: Yellow Jersey
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.08.2017
• EAN: 9780224100601
• ISBN: 978-0-224-10060-1
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 196 mm x 18 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Guides > Sport > Ball sport; England, Prose: non-fiction, Sociology: sport and leisure, Biography and non-fiction prose, SPORTS & RECREATION / Cultural & Social Aspects