Book description
Anthony Clavane loves Leeds - certainly the football club, but also
the city, and the tribes that make it. Now that he is an exile in the
South, his frequent pilgrimages to the stadium speak for themselves.
But he no less loves the rarely-glimpsed back-streets of his youth;
and even has a feel for the long-gone slums where his ancestors once
settled. Leeds is his promised land; idealised and unreachable, yet
still it defines him.
This is a book about football. It's about unconditional love for a
club, even when it doesn't always seem to love you back. But it is
also a book about much more than that.
Anthony Clavane was born in Leeds in 1960, a year before Don Revie
became manager. He started life as a history teacher and is now chief
sports writer of the
Sunday Mirror
.
