State of the Art
John Lanchester, 1 June 1989
Manchester United: The Betrayal of a Legend
by Michael Crick and David Smith.
Pelham, 246 pp., £14.95, May 1989,0 7207 1783 3 Show More
by Michael Crick and David Smith.
Pelham, 246 pp., £14.95, May 1989,
Football in its Place: An Environmental Psychology of Football Grounds
by David Canter, Miriam Comber and David Uzzell.
Routledge, 173 pp., £10.95, May 1989,0 415 01240 6 Show More
by David Canter, Miriam Comber and David Uzzell.
Routledge, 173 pp., £10.95, May 1989,
“... The broad distinction among English football teams is between hearties and aesthetes. The aesthetes have, fortunately, tended to carry off the main footballing prizes – certainly they look set to do so this year, in the persons of Liverpool Football Club – but the hearties dominate numerically, and set the tone of most of the matches to be seen anywhere in the country on a Saturday afternoon ... ”
