Daniel Gray
The Silence of the Stands: Finding the Joy in Football's Lost Season
The Silence of the Stands: Finding the Joy in Football's Lost Season
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The Silence of the Stands is a book by Daniel Gray that reflects on everything the game meant to him during the COVID-19 pandemic. It is a joyous travelogue documenting a precarious season, in which behind-closed-doors matches and travel restrictions combined to make trips to Kendal and Workington seem impossibly exotic. It offers a poignant peek at a surreal age and a slab of social history from the two-metre-distanced tea bar queue.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 176 pages
Publication date: 10 November 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
LONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023
SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2023 - FOOTBALL BOOK OF THE YEAR
‘Powerful and poignant Henry Winter‘
Empathetic and poignant … the games answer to A Journal of the Plague Year. Harry Pearson. ‘The Durham City midfielder wore the resigned look of a man trying to find a jar of harissa in Farmfoods. Up front for Jarrow, a center-forward darted around frenetically, as if chasing a kite during a hurricane. When football disappeared in March 2020, writer and broadcaster Daniel Gray used its absence to reflect on everything the game meant to him. That bred a pledge: whenever and wherever fans were allowed to return, he would be there. The Silence of the Stands is the result of that pledge: a joyous travelogue documenting a precarious season, in which behind-closed-doors matches and travel restrictions combined to make trips to Kendal and Workington seem impossibly exotic. Offering a poignant peek at a surreal age and a slab of social history from the two-metre-distanced tea bar queue, this is the moving, heartfelt, and surprisingly uplifting story of a unique season that no one wishes to repeat.
Weight: 190g
Dimension: 134 x 215 x 15 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781399404068
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