The Beautiful Game

Author: Alan Gibbons

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Price : $16.99 AUD
ISBN : 9781781126912
Publisher : Barrington Stoke, Limited
Imprint : Barrington Stoke Ltd
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Weight (g) : 0.13
Publication date : 28 February 2017
Dimensions : 198mm X 130mm
RRP : 16.99
Availability date : 01 April 2017
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Author : Alan Gibbons
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Bind : Paperback
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Illustrator : Chris Chalik
Language : English
Pages : 72
Illustrations : Approx. 10 black and white illustrations
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At an Old Trafford game, Lennie hears Man U fans chanting about Hillsborough. Enraged, he joins in with a retaliatory chant about the Munich Disaster of '58. Appalled, his dad and granddad take Lennie on a whistlestop tour of the dark side of the beautiful game. Dad and Grandad know only too well the human cost of fan violence and official negligence, having experience racism in football fandom and survived the Hillsborough disaster.Interwoven with lots of facts about the history of football, the great disasters of the twentieth century and the black footballers who blazed a trail in the UK, this book is ideal to engage reluctant reading football fans. Particularly suitable for struggling, reluctant and dyslexic readers aged 8+

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