A Game of Two Halves: Matches, the Teams, the Players, the Managers, the Fans, the Pain, the Poetry of Football

by Stephen F. Kelly (Editor)

This anthology brings together some of the best writing about soccer over the sport's long and illustrious history. Regular writers on the game such as Eamon Dunphy, Pete Davies and Simon Barnes are joined by the more unexpected contributor such as Roy Hattersley, Harold Pinter and Barry Norman, on subjects as far-ranging as the dribbling skills of Pele, Liverpool followers in Rome, the world's greatest save, Brian Clough, and the declaration of war between El Salvador and Honduras following their World Cup tie in 1970.

Genres: Football

480 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1993

About the author

Stephen F. Kelly is an English author and broadcaster, born in Liverpool, England in June 1946. He is the author of many books, mostly on football and in particular on Liverpool Football Club. He has written a number of biographies of football managers including Bill Shankly, Sir Alex Ferguson, Kenny Dalglish and Gerard Houllier as well as an oral history of Liverpool Football Club. He was one of the first writers in Britain to explore sport through oral history, not only with The Kop but also with his oral history of Manchester United Football Club, Red Voices, and a further book on Liverpool, The Bootroom Boys.