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Oi /lit/, is there any good writing to be found on the subject of football?

>> No.16167321

>>16167305
check the bloody archives you wanker

>> No.16167324

most of the great tactical stuff is in italian, and I can't comprehend wanting to read sporting fiction. Just watch a match.

>> No.16167397

>A Season with Verona

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>>16167305
No. It's a total waste of time.

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>> No.16167653

I love football, but it's impossible to intelligently describe it, it'd be like trying to intellectualize pornography. All this talk of football being "art" or whatever is nonsense. It's just a game, but it's also the most entertaining game ever created.

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>>16167305
Not a big fun of this dude but I head people love it, and it's basically just short stories about football. It hasn't been translated afaik.

>> No.16167703

>>16167666
*fan, *heard

>> No.16167713

>>16167653
Great stuff has been written / great films have been made around the subject of pornography though. I love football too, and though I wouldn't like to get too pretentious about it I would like to read interesting takes on it

>> No.16167851

>>16167713
Fútbol a Sol y Sombra from Galeano is really good
Juan Polti, half back from Quiroga is short and good too

Hopefully you can find english translations

>> No.16167873

>>16167305
inverting the pyramid is still a good read

>> No.16167952

>>16167851
Nice one mate, looks like there's a solid translation of the first one you listed

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>>16167305
Barney Ronay is a good writer on football--intellectual, insightful, absurdist and unpretentious.
The Damned United by David Peace is as good as most contemporary fiction.
Garrincha by Ruy Castro is interesting as as portrait of the bizarre prodigy, the limping shadow of Pele, as well as how industry and Indian/Brazilian life seemed to work in rural Brazil.
Calcio is the best history in English or Italian football
Those Feet: A sensual history of english football by David Winner is a fun bit of theorizing about how cultural mores influence football style
The Soccer War by Kapucinski is a sort of classic
The Roy Keaneiad by Colin Teevan is worth a quick read, too, treating as it does Roy in mock heroic Homeric verse