‘A wonderful book – I was helplessly absorbed’ – Bill Bryson
In his memoir The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Gunner, former football journalist Patrick Mangan relives the agony and the ecstasy of growing up in rural Australia in the 1970s as an Arsenal-FC-supporting English immigrant cast helplessly adrift from the mother country.
Like Nick Hornby’s Fever Pitch set among the gum trees and the dust, this is the tale of a scrawny Pommy kid falling desperately in love with the world game, the Gunners and the Socceroos, as well as his unrelenting – occasionally unfathomable – crusade to convert the pagans of the Aussie outback to his noble cause.
‘Utterly beguiling’ – Geraldine Doogue, Radio National, Australia
‘Exuberant and self-deprecating’ – The Age
‘Dead-set fantastic – I think it’s the fastest I’ve ever read a book’ – Santo Cilauro, co-host of Santo, Sam and Ed’s Total Football
Originally published as Offsider by Melbourne University Press
‘A wonderful book – I was helplessly absorbed’ – Bill Bryson
In his memoir The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Gunner, former football journalist Patrick Mangan relives the agony and the ecstasy of growing up in rural Australia in the 1970s as an Arsenal-FC-supporting English immigrant cast helplessly adrift from the mother country.
Like Nick Hornby’s Fever Pitch set among the gum trees and the dust, this is the tale of a scrawny Pommy kid falling desperately in love with the world game, the Gunners and the Socceroos, as well as his unrelenting – occasionally unfathomable – crusade to convert the pagans of the Aussie outback to his noble cause.
‘Utterly beguiling’ – Geraldine Doogue, Radio National, Australia
‘Exuberant and self-deprecating’ – The Age
‘Dead-set fantastic – I think it’s the fastest I’ve ever read a book’ – Santo Cilauro, co-host of Santo, Sam and Ed’s Total Football
Originally published as Offsider by Melbourne University Press
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Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780994507303 |
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| Publisher: | Patrick Mangan |
| Publication date: | 06/15/2017 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| Pages: | 50 |
| File size: | 397 KB |