Book description
The dramatic and controversial history of the world's leading
tournament. Brian Glanville's classic account is a celebration of the
great players and matches from Uruguay in 1930 to Germany in 2006 -
and a bold attack on all those who have mismanaged the 'beautiful game'.
Brian Glanville, novelist and journalist, is one of the best writers
on football. He spent nearly thirty years as a football correspondent
for the Sunday Times to which he is still a contributor. He has also
written for The People as well as contributing obituaries of prominent
players to The Guardian. Simon Barnes has said of him, 'Football has
been better served than most sports with grown-up fiction, all of it
from Brian Glanville, who has written some beautiful short stories and
the classic Sixties period piece, The Rise of Gerry Logan.'And A. J.
Ayer, 'Brian Glanville himself is a literary exception ... he is the
best football journalist of recent times and the best writer of football
fiction.'Faber Finds have reissued three of his novels - his two on
football, The Rise of Gerry Logan and The Dying of the Light as well as
The Olympian.
