Pray Pray

Pray

Notes on the 2011/2012 Football Season

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Publisher Description

Pray is bestselling author Nick Hornby's extraordinary account of an astonishing season

'That is why there is NOTHING better than sport' Kevin Pietersen

The 2011-12 Premier League season finished on an afternoon so extraordinary that it prompted Kevin Pietersen's tweet. Yet this was just the climax of an incredible season. By May fans of most clubs had been enthralled, appalled, depressed, elated, shocked and enraged. Along the way football had somehow managed to encompass politics, high finance, the law and matters of life and death.

Beginning with the weekend of 28 August when the Man Utd demolition of Arsenal 8-2 and the Man City demolition of Spurs 5-1 showed what was to come, he concentrates on a number of games whose significance went beyond the immediate result: the October games with alleged rascist incidents, the fairy-tale return of Thierry Henry, the collapse of Fabrice Muamba, the Carling Cup Final where Liverpool's victory only served to point up the club's problems, the unusual (but increasingly more common) 4-4 draw between Man Utd and Everton...

It was a season of tumultuous incident and enormous entertainment, a season more glorious than most. Read all about it, and relive it, here, from the award-winning author of the football classic Fever Pitch.

GENRE
Sports & Outdoors
RELEASED
2012
1 July
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
50
Pages
PUBLISHER
Penguin Books Ltd
PROVIDER INFO
Penguin Books Limited
SIZE
407.9
KB
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