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Vertigo: Spurs, Bale and One Fan´s Fear of Success
John Crace
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Description for Vertigo: Spurs, Bale and One Fan´s Fear of Success
Paperback. New edition with additional material. From the creator of the Digested Read, a hilarious take on the life of the obsessive football fan of a team that almost always disappoints. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; BM; WSBT; WSJA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 133 x 19. Weight in Grams: 240.
If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs . . . then you're probably not a football fan. Years of underachievement. An heroic sense of injustice. A seemingly infinite capacity for self-destruction. John Crace and Spurs were made for each other. But then the team started to play like possible champions. For most fans, these are the glory moments they dream about. For Crace they just opened a new dimension of anxiety: the fear of success. Crace has supported Spurs for 40 years. His wife thinks he suffers from ... Read more
If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs . . . then you're probably not a football fan. Years of underachievement. An heroic sense of injustice. A seemingly infinite capacity for self-destruction. John Crace and Spurs were made for each other. But then the team started to play like possible champions. For most fans, these are the glory moments they dream about. For Crace they just opened a new dimension of anxiety: the fear of success. Crace has supported Spurs for 40 years. His wife thinks he suffers from ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
Weight
242g
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781472115775
SKU
V9781472115775
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
About John Crace
John Crace is a staff feature writer for the Guardian, where he is best known for the literary pastiche 'Digested Read'. He has also written several books, including the semi-fictional comic memoirs Baby Alarm and The Second Half. He lives in south-west London but travels to N17 for every home game.
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