The Silence of the Stands: Finding the Joy in Football’s Lost Season

by Daniel Gray

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The Durham City midfielder wore the resigned look of a man trying to find a jar of harissa in Farmfoods. Up front for Jarrow, a centre-forward darted around frenetically, as if chasing a kite during a hurricane...

When football disappeared in March 2020, Daniel Gray used its absence to reflect on everything the game meant to him. That bred a pledge: whenever and wherever fans were allowed to return, he would be there. The result is this footballing travelogue from a time when boarding a train to Workington suddenly felt impossibly exotic.

Gray’s 2020/21 season quickly became...Read more
  • ISBN10 1399404067
  • ISBN13 9781399404068
  • Publish Date 10 November 2022
  • Publish Status Forthcoming
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Imprint Bloomsbury Sport
  • Format Paperback (US Trade)
  • Pages 176
  • Language English