Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Among the Fans: From the Ashes to the arrows, a year of watching the watchers

Patrick Collins

3.9/5 ( ratings)

After nearly half a century in the world's press boxes, Patrick Collins did a remarkable thing. He took his eye off the ball, stepped away from his colleagues, and joined the throng: the people who pay the money. For a year, he relished sharing the experiences of the varied crowds at sporting events great and small: England's always hopeful, always frustrated, football supporters; the panama-hatted brigade at county cricket; the sodden, delirious golf-lovers at the Ryder Cup; and the hey-look-at-me darts fans. And he penetrates strange, semi-private subcultures like point-to-point and speedway. The result is original, wonderfully readable and very funny.

Language: English

Pages: 215

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Wisden

Release: July 30, 2012

ISBN: 1408158833

ISBN 13: 9781408158838

Among the Fans: From the Ashes to the arrows, a year of watching the watchers

Patrick Collins

3.9/5 ( ratings)

After nearly half a century in the world's press boxes, Patrick Collins did a remarkable thing. He took his eye off the ball, stepped away from his colleagues, and joined the throng: the people who pay the money. For a year, he relished sharing the experiences of the varied crowds at sporting events great and small: England's always hopeful, always frustrated, football supporters; the panama-hatted brigade at county cricket; the sodden, delirious golf-lovers at the Ryder Cup; and the hey-look-at-me darts fans. And he penetrates strange, semi-private subcultures like point-to-point and speedway. The result is original, wonderfully readable and very funny.

Language: English

Pages: 215

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Wisden

Release: July 30, 2012

ISBN: 1408158833

ISBN 13: 9781408158838

More books from Patrick Collins

Negotiate to Win!: Talking Your Way to What You Want

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Speak with Power and Confidence: Tested Ideas for Becoming a More Powerful Communicator

3.5/5 ( ratings)

Murder at Mosquito Cove Harbour Grace: The Murder of Elfreda Pike, 1870

4.3/5 ( ratings)

Forsaken Children

3.4/5 ( ratings)

Fighting for My Life: How I Found God and Beat Lyme Disease

4.7/5 ( ratings)

Percy: The Perspicacious Memoirs of a Cricketing Man

3.5/5 ( ratings)

Analog Science Fiction and Fact, June 1988

The London Marathon 1993

Business Selling Insights Vol. 5: Spotlights on Leading Business Intermediaries, Brokers, and M&A Advisors

Fruit

The Tainos

Dragon Years

Goodbye Bussamarai: The Mandandji Land War Sth Qld 1842-1852

Bookkeeping Exercises for Junior Certificate

Pazarlıkta Sen Kazan!

Elementology And The Elements Of Life

Belonging

Young Doctors in Love [VHS]

Tales of Gold

Creative Economies in Peripheral Regions

Rate this book!

Write a review?