• Complain

Roger Bennett - Men in Blazers Present Encyclopedia Blazertannica: A Suboptimal Guide to Soccer, Americas Sport of the Future Since 1972

Here you can read online Roger Bennett - Men in Blazers Present Encyclopedia Blazertannica: A Suboptimal Guide to Soccer, Americas Sport of the Future Since 1972 full text of the book (entire story) in english for free. Download pdf and epub, get meaning, cover and reviews about this ebook. year: 2018, publisher: Knopf, genre: Detective and thriller. Description of the work, (preface) as well as reviews are available. Best literature library LitArk.com created for fans of good reading and offers a wide selection of genres:

Romance novel Science fiction Adventure Detective Science History Home and family Prose Art Politics Computer Non-fiction Religion Business Children Humor

Choose a favorite category and find really read worthwhile books. Enjoy immersion in the world of imagination, feel the emotions of the characters or learn something new for yourself, make an fascinating discovery.

No cover
  • Book:
    Men in Blazers Present Encyclopedia Blazertannica: A Suboptimal Guide to Soccer, Americas Sport of the Future Since 1972
  • Author:
  • Publisher:
    Knopf
  • Genre:
  • Year:
    2018
  • Rating:
    3 / 5
  • Favourites:
    Add to favourites
  • Your mark:
    • 60
    • 1
    • 2
    • 3
    • 4
    • 5

Men in Blazers Present Encyclopedia Blazertannica: A Suboptimal Guide to Soccer, Americas Sport of the Future Since 1972: summary, description and annotation

We offer to read an annotation, description, summary or preface (depends on what the author of the book "Men in Blazers Present Encyclopedia Blazertannica: A Suboptimal Guide to Soccer, Americas Sport of the Future Since 1972" wrote himself). If you haven't found the necessary information about the book — write in the comments, we will try to find it.

The essential guide to world soccerthe history, the players, the fan culturefrom the phenomenally popular duo from NBC Sports. The Men in Blazers are two English-born, soccer-obsessed broadcasters who have savored the dizzying growth of the game along with millions of Americans. Now they immerse fans and novices alike in the history and culture of the worlds game with Encyclopedia Blazertannica. Examining fan culture, from the famous stadium chants to the tactical variations of scarf tying, exploring the complex physics and ethics of both celebratory knee slides and fights between players, reliving the careers of legendary players, classic matches, and colorful World Cup history, and sharing a deep appreciation for the athletic brilliance and ill-judged neck tattoos that dominate the sport, this indispensable tome gives readers a front-row seat to all the action of football madness. A New York Times Bestseller!

Roger Bennett: author's other books


Who wrote Men in Blazers Present Encyclopedia Blazertannica: A Suboptimal Guide to Soccer, Americas Sport of the Future Since 1972? Find out the surname, the name of the author of the book and a list of all author's works by series.

Men in Blazers Present Encyclopedia Blazertannica: A Suboptimal Guide to Soccer, Americas Sport of the Future Since 1972 — read online for free the complete book (whole text) full work

Below is the text of the book, divided by pages. System saving the place of the last page read, allows you to conveniently read the book "Men in Blazers Present Encyclopedia Blazertannica: A Suboptimal Guide to Soccer, Americas Sport of the Future Since 1972" online for free, without having to search again every time where you left off. Put a bookmark, and you can go to the page where you finished reading at any time.

Light

Font size:

Reset

Interval:

Bookmark:

Make
Contents
ALSO BY ROGER BENNETT AND MICHAEL DAVIES How the United States Can Win the - photo 1
ALSO BY ROGER BENNETT AND MICHAEL DAVIES How the United States Can Win the - photo 2
ALSO BY ROGER BENNETT AND MICHAEL DAVIES How the United States Can Win the - photo 3

ALSO BY ROGER BENNETT AND MICHAEL DAVIES

How the United States Can Win the 2006 World Cup

Bavarian for the Modern Business Traveler

Puffin Breeding Today

Self-Loathing and How to Live with That Curse

John Terry: Symbol of Our Times or Misunderstood?

Tony Hibbert: Modern Day Jesus

THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A KNOPF Copyright 2018 by Roger - photo 4

THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A KNOPF Copyright 2018 by Roger - photo 5

THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK
PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF

Copyright 2018 by Roger Bennett and Michael Davies

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York, and in Canada by Random House of Canada, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited, Toronto.

www.aaknopf.com

Knopf, Borzoi Books, and the colophon are registered trademarks of Penguin Random House LLC.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Bennett, Roger, [date] author. | Davies, Michael, [date] author.

Title: Men in blazers present encyclopedia blazertannica : a suboptimal guide to soccer, Americas sport of the future since 1972 / by Roger Bennett, Michael Davies.

Description: First edition. | New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2018.

Identifiers: LCCN 2017028596 | ISBN 9781101875988 (hardcover) |
ISBN 9781101875995 (ebook)

Ebook ISBN9781101875995

Subjects: LCSH: Soccer--Miscellanea. | Soccer--Anecdotes. | Soccer--Humor. |

BISAC: SPORTS & RECREATION / Soccer. | HUMOR / Topic / Sports. | SPORTS & RECREATION / History.

Classification: LCC GV943.2 .B44 2018 | DDC 796.352--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017028596

Cover design by Peter Mendelsund

v5.2_r2

a

R OG: To my wife, Vanessa, my kids, Samson, Ber, Zion, and Oz, and Everton Football Club. Aka the things in life that allow me to experience human emotions I am otherwise sadly numb to.

D AVO: To all my greatest mates, you know who you are, in life, love, TV, and sport. To my kids. And to my mum and Roman Abramovich. I owe you both so much.

R OG AND D AVO: To all our Great Friends of the PodKung Fu Fighting America!

E DDY: The entire British Empire was built on cups of tea

S OAP: Yeah, and look what happened to that.

E DDY: And if you think Im going to war without one, mate, youre mistaken.

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

CONTENTS
Introduction Hail Unfortunate Accidental Readers and Great Friends of the - photo 6
Introduction

Hail! Unfortunate Accidental Readers and Great Friends of the Pod.

The volume you have in your hands was designed to be many things:

The final nail in the coffin of the long-floundering publishing industry.

Living proof that it is possible to write a worse book than Does God Love Michaels Two Daddies? by Sheila K. Butt.

An ill-advised attempt to journey into the inky dark, unexplored depths of the Men in Blazers universe, every detail of which we have created hand in hand with our masochistically loyal listeners over the past eight years, pod by pod, show by show, tweet by suboptimal tweet.

To achieve the first two objectives, we chose to focus solely on the third. This task demanded we wallow in the history and culture of football, the sport we both love. With its pantheon of heroes and villains, moments of glorious ecstasy and searing despair, dodgy haircuts and surplus neck tattoos, it has empowered us to experience emotions other people seem to feel in real life, to which we are both inured. No telenovela could provide soapier story lines to keep us hooked like footballa game with plot points that unfurl live without a safety net, as the whole world watches.


Witnessing the game we love grow and grow in America, the nation that we love, has been the thrill of our lifetimes. We both arrived on these shores as innocents, equipped with full heads of our own hair, in the early 1990s. Back then soccer had seemingly forever been cast as Americas Sport of the Future, its recent past little more than a collection of false dawns and hyperbolic predictions that it was about to become the Next Big Thing.

We well remember the day when FIFA announced its intention to host the 1994 World Cup in the US, prompting panicked former-AFL-quarterback-turned-US-representative Jack Kemp to declare on the floor of Congress: I think it is important for all those young men out there who someday hope to play real football where you throw it and kick it and run with it and put it in your hands a distinction should be made that football is democratic capitalism whereas soccer is a European socialist sport.

Yet, slow and steady wins the race. We have watched with wonder, World Cup to World Cup, as the games profile has inexorably risen to the point that the sports profile has taken its place alongside seersucker, cheesesteaks, and the collected works of Raymond Carver as a symbol of American freedom and democracy.

Indeed, our obsessive love of football and Men in Blazers very existence has been possible only because it was powered and reinforced by that surging rise of interest, as well as by the fact that you allow bald men on television in the United States.

The question is often asked as to why, season to season, week to week, game to game, more and more Americans have fallen under footballs poetic sway. Many theories have been advanced. Just as baseball thrived in the Golden Age of Radio, and the NFL was the perfect televisual sport, soccers rise has been driven by the Internet in general, and EA Sports FIFA in particular, which have enabled fans in Los Angeles or North Dakota to experience and follow their teams as closely as supporters in Leicester or Newcastle.

Also, alcohol. If a gent is in a bar drinking a beer at 7:30 in the morning, society deems him to be an alcoholic. If Liverpool are losing to Bournemouth on a television in that very same bar whilst that aforementioned beer is being quaffed, we consider that man an American soccer fan. If we have learned only one thing during our beer-stained Men in Blazers odyssey it is this: Never underestimate the extent to which Americans adore an excuse to drink during the daytime.

Ultimately, we like to believe footballs American boom has been made possible by a realization that sporting audiences here have made en massethat when they experience soccer, they might not be watching home runs, end zone dances, or tomahawk dunks. They are glimpsing life itself unfold before their eyes. The legendary Arsenal manager Arsne Wenger once articulated this best when he said, Football is like real life but in a more condensed way, more intense. At some moments it catches you suddenly and it can be very cruel.

As two men, we could not be more different. One of us is an optimistic Londoner who believes everything is possible. The other, a negative Liverpudlian who sees Cossacks lurking behind every door. Yet we are bonded by a mutual understanding that soccer in all of its formsmens or womens, international or clubas long as it is played by bipeds, is the key to understanding human existence. As George Eliot once said:

Next page
Light

Font size:

Reset

Interval:

Bookmark:

Make

Similar books «Men in Blazers Present Encyclopedia Blazertannica: A Suboptimal Guide to Soccer, Americas Sport of the Future Since 1972»

Look at similar books to Men in Blazers Present Encyclopedia Blazertannica: A Suboptimal Guide to Soccer, Americas Sport of the Future Since 1972. We have selected literature similar in name and meaning in the hope of providing readers with more options to find new, interesting, not yet read works.


Reviews about «Men in Blazers Present Encyclopedia Blazertannica: A Suboptimal Guide to Soccer, Americas Sport of the Future Since 1972»

Discussion, reviews of the book Men in Blazers Present Encyclopedia Blazertannica: A Suboptimal Guide to Soccer, Americas Sport of the Future Since 1972 and just readers' own opinions. Leave your comments, write what you think about the work, its meaning or the main characters. Specify what exactly you liked and what you didn't like, and why you think so.