The Bottom Corner

A Season with the Dreamers of Non-League Football

Nonfiction, Sports, Football (Soccer), Reference
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Author: Nige Tassell ISBN: 9781473546189
Publisher: Random House Publication: September 1, 2016
Imprint: Vintage Digital Language: English
Author: Nige Tassell
ISBN: 9781473546189
Publisher: Random House
Publication: September 1, 2016
Imprint: Vintage Digital
Language: English

‘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 Davies

In 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.

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‘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 Davies

In 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.

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