Jason Cowley
Auteur de Granta 102: The New Nature Writing
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The Psychology of the Athenian Hoplite: The Culture of Combat in Classical Athens (2012) 6 exemplaires
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English football can be divided into BPL (before Premier League) and PL (Premier League).
The decades of the 70s and 80s BPL were ultimately defined by hooliganism, ugliness, and homegrownness. They represented a post WWII Thatcherite class-warfare England. 95% of the players were Englishmen with a smattering of Irish, Scots, and Welshmen. The country and the players were under the false delusion that England was the top of the football mountain; that Liverpool was top of the football world; that the banning from European football was an egregious wrong. And then, at the end of the decade, 1989, Liverpool was shockingly taken down by an upstart crow Arsenal team full of youngsters and and a couple of foreigners. Huge underdogs comprised of more than one non-white skinned player. The recent tragedy at Hillsborough resulted in the deaths of scores of helpless fans, and the resulting self-examination of English football and everything it stood for. The end of an era. The end of English football. The beginning of the nineties. The creation of the Premier League. The super league that, although played on English soil, would see the English players be reduced to 30% of the participants. Super stadiums. Sky-high ticket prices. Astronomical player and manager salaries. And a massive world-wide audience. The best football in the world. The poor lower classes that constituted the vast majority of the football-attending crowds of the BPL were rapidly replaced by those that could afford the PL £100 tickets. Foreign owners and managers (it took a German manager Klopp to finally bring Liverpool its first top of the table finish in 2020); the best players in the world (mostly foreigners); the greatest show on Earth.
If you're a Premier League fanatic, you need to read this book. It's an eye-opener. Come on you lads!… (plus d'informations)