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The World at Your Feet: In Search of the Meaning of Football
In The World at Your Feet: One Man's Search for the Soul of the Beautiful Game, Tim Hartley takes us on a footballing world tour. We meet fans in Hong Kong who refuse to bow to China, help clear the goats off a pitch in Africa and kick off the chanting at a bizarre game in North Korea. Back home, Hartley visits all 92 Premier and Football League grounds and watches a prisoners' team desperate to play a competitive match. Using wry observation and detailed research, The World at Your Feet unfurls the good, the bad and the ugly of football. It is brutally honest, informative and often very funny. This is a rough guide with a difference. The power of football across the world is put in the balance and measured, its successes raised up, its failings laid bare. Hartley rails against the excesses of professional football but he never loses faith and through his travels he finds the soul of the game is still alive and kicking. If you want a global health check of the game we sometimes struggle to love, then you really need The World at Your Feet.
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224 pages, Paperback
Published November 1, 2021
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March 24, 2023
Yet another brilliant book by Tim Hartley! I always enjoy reading his incredible tales of footballing journeys and adventures across the world, from the momentous, to the niche and in between. Tim’s writing style hits all the write notes in terms of engaging you with his storytelling with humor, first person accounts and whimsical comments. Also want to get out and see more football games after reading his books and allows me to experience his incredible moment vicariously
December 29, 2022
nt, wartime environment. a very good read!
The Silver Wolf is divided into three sections: the first, which begins in 1619, introduces us to Jack on the docks of Amsterdam; the second, which takes us back several years to fill in some of the details of Jack's childhood in the village of Belle-Dame near La Rochelle; and the third, which finds Jack in Germany, taking part in the events of the war while carrying out his private mission of vengeance. The middle segment was my favourite since it clarified sorefer dialogue in historical fiction to sound more 'historical,' I can understand how the author's choice of language here certainly complemented the gritty, sometimes violent, wartime environment. a very good read!
The Silver Wolf is divided into three sections: the first, which begins in 1619, introduces us to Jack on the docks of Amsterdam; the second, which takes us back several years to fill in some of the details of Jack's childhood in the village of Belle-Dame near La Rochelle; and the third, which finds Jack in Germany, taking part in the events of the war while carrying out his private mission of vengeance. The middle segment was my favourite since it clarified some of my questions and gave me a better picture of what was going on. However, while I thought the book's structure was pretty good, it did mean that many new characters were still introduced late in the story, which I found little overwhelming.
The novel is written in a vibrant, often funny tone, and the author has chosen to use modern speech and slang; while I prefer dialogue in historical fiction to sound more 'historical,' I can understand how the author's choice of
The Silver Wolf is divided into three sections: the first, which begins in 1619, introduces us to Jack on the docks of Amsterdam; the second, which takes us back several years to fill in some of the details of Jack's childhood in the village of Belle-Dame near La Rochelle; and the third, which finds Jack in Germany, taking part in the events of the war while carrying out his private mission of vengeance. The middle segment was my favourite since it clarified sorefer dialogue in historical fiction to sound more 'historical,' I can understand how the author's choice of language here certainly complemented the gritty, sometimes violent, wartime environment. a very good read!
The Silver Wolf is divided into three sections: the first, which begins in 1619, introduces us to Jack on the docks of Amsterdam; the second, which takes us back several years to fill in some of the details of Jack's childhood in the village of Belle-Dame near La Rochelle; and the third, which finds Jack in Germany, taking part in the events of the war while carrying out his private mission of vengeance. The middle segment was my favourite since it clarified some of my questions and gave me a better picture of what was going on. However, while I thought the book's structure was pretty good, it did mean that many new characters were still introduced late in the story, which I found little overwhelming.
The novel is written in a vibrant, often funny tone, and the author has chosen to use modern speech and slang; while I prefer dialogue in historical fiction to sound more 'historical,' I can understand how the author's choice of
April 27, 2024
Great book about football and all things around it that reminded me why I love this game so much.
P.S. Cheers to Rhys (Chester) from a fellow Partizan fan, didn't know your father wrote this when I picked it up!
P.S. Cheers to Rhys (Chester) from a fellow Partizan fan, didn't know your father wrote this when I picked it up!
February 24, 2025
Not a bad collection of stories based on a Welsh football fans experience of watching football of all levels around the word. Some interesting stories and facts kept this ticking along.
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