Scottish Football by Henry McLeish - 9781912147595

Luath Press Ltd

Scottish FootballReviving the Beautiful Game\nAuthor(s): Henry McLeish\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Luath Press Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Luath Press Ltd\nISBN-13: 9781912147595, 978-1912147595\nSynopsis\nDid I only dream about Archie Gemmill scoring one of the greatest goals ever in beating Holland 3-2 in the 1978 World Cup?\n\nDid Jim Baxter really play keepie uppie and torment the life out of the weary World Cup winners England in 1967?\n\nWere Celtic really the first British team to win the European Cup?\n\nHave we obsessives become untethered from reality? \n\nAre we hanging on to a world real or imaginary, where football dominated our lives to such an extent that it was more than a game, indeed more important than life itself?\n\nHas my natural childhood football environment and each of its overlapping parts cultural, religious, identity, class, political, intellectual, psychological, sociological, philosophical and, sadly, tribal created the conditions for distorted an.