The accidental footballer : a memoir / Pat Nevin.

Nevin, Pat, 1963-, author

London : Monoray, 2022.

344 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 20 cm

Originally published: 2021.
Includes index.

Pat Nevin never wanted to be a professional footballer. His future was clear, he'd become a teacher like his brothers. There was only one problem with this - Pat was far too good to avoid attention. Raised in Glasgow's East End, Pat loved the game, playing for hours and obsessively following Celtic. But as he grew up, he also loved Joy Division, wearing his Indie 'gloom boom' coat and going on marches - hardly typical footballer behaviour! Placed firmly in the 80s and 90s, before the advent of the Premier League, and often with racism and violence present, Pat Nevin writes with honesty, insight and wry humour. We are transported vividly to Chelsea and Everton, and colourfully diverted by John Peel, Morrissey and nights out at the Hacienda.

9781913183387 (pbk)

796.334092
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