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The outsider : a history of the goalkeeper / Jonathan Wilson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London : Orion, 2012.Description: viii, 351 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781409123194 (hbk.)
  • 1409123197 (hbk.)
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Holdings
Item type Current library Collection Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Non-Fiction Davis (Central) Library Non-Fiction Non-Fiction 796.334 WIL 1 In transit from Davis (Central) Library to Hakeke Street Library since 10/02/2021 T00538813
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

First ever cultural history of the goalkeeper, the 'loner' between the posts.

'Aloof, solitary, impassive, the crack goalie is followed in the streets by entranced small boys. He vies with the matador and the flying aces, an object of thrilled adulation. He is the lone eagle, the man of mystery, the last defender.' Nabokov (quoted here), Camus, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, James Joyce, even Julian Barnes . . .it's safe to say the goalkeeper hasn't always been a team player.

In THE OUTSIDER, Jonathan Wilson traces the sometimes dangerous intellectual and literary preoccupations of the keeper, and looks at how the position has secured a certain existential cool, as well as taking a deep tactical and technical look at the history of goalkeeping. Jonathan Wilson is the football correspondent for the FINANCIAL TIMES as well as writing for the SUNDAY TELEGRAPH and GUARDIAN. There has been the odd, minor work on goalkeeping in the past, but nothing like this in scope or depth.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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