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A quick review on two excellent trivia volumes that were sent our way from Apex Publishing. The
first is The Tottenham Hotspur Quiz Book, which was compiled by John DT White and includes a
foreword written by two Spurs legends – Gary Mabbutt and Pat Jennings. The 1,250 questions in
this quiz book cover every aspect [.
David Winner's Brilliant Orange is half cultural guide, half nostalgic reminiscence for a faded
beauty, and half the history of Dutch soccer, with all its attendant wonderful personalities and
stories. Yes, your math is correct--three halves. But then such is the neurotic genius (note the
book's subtitle) and strange perception of space that belongs not just to the Dutch, but to this
book as
The A-League structure is very close to the 13 year old American MLS. Built from the ashes of false
starts, a small number of teams, backed by millionaires with a tight salary cap.
Perhaps false starts are the way of football outside Europe, each generation has a crescendo of
interest generated by the appearance of international stars, an influx of investor money from the
field of dreams (build it and they will come), the coming of age of a new generation of football
mad migrants, or a world cup qualification.
We've all been there. Sometimes the team you follow goes through a bad patch, which turns into a
really awful patch, which eventually becomes the mother of all hell-like patches. Dave Roberts has
been there too, and as a way of recovering from such a traumatic experience, he chose to write a
book about it.
