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the simplest game: February 2009

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Thursday, February 26, 2009. Crime-related football fiction is a world unto itself. I nearly said underworld. It started a way back in the day, we're talking the 1920s and 30s here. Sydney Horler's Tiger Standish series probably aren't strictly crime but they are crime-related and more importantly, we here at the simplest game think they're great. Here's a wee sample I found elsewhere. A pipe, a dog and a golf club : if you want to win the heart of a man, give him one of these. And when I say a man, ...

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the simplest game: bitterness and reticence and biographic nonsense

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Wednesday, June 3, 2009. Bitterness and reticence and biographic nonsense. The leg’s better, much better, thanks. The bullet wound is healing painfully slowly, as is the way with someone in the early autumnal stages of life, so the wife (still laughing) assures me. Still no football though. Or running. It’s a bit rubbish. And the football season’s finished. Man (and boy) United. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Why my doin' this? View my complete profile. Subscribe to the simplest game. Andrew Bolt is...

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the simplest game: October 2008

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Wednesday, October 29, 2008. Ian Plenderleith talks football fiction. A handful of years ago Ian Plenderleith wrote a bagful of football fiction short stories. Some of them are very, very good, but the exquisitely titled For Whom The Balls Rolls. Will be reviewed soon enough. Plenderleith clearly knows something about writing football. Mind you, he's been doing it for years, in places like The Guardian. And When Saturday Comes. IP: At the time the book was published I idealistically hoped, as all first-t...

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the simplest game: January 2009

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Wednesday, January 28, 2009. Thick herberts - DJ Taylor on Football Fiction. DJ Taylor is a critic, novelist, biographer and most recent hero of thesimplestgame. He received the 2003 Whitbread Biography Award for his work on George Orwell and contributes to. The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, The Independent, New Statesman and The Spectator among others. Importantly he’s published a football fiction novel called English Settlement. Did you really make such a statement? David Taylor: I didn't know about t...

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the simplest game: March 2009

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Tuesday, March 24, 2009. Football n fiction, .they started walking out together. The first question I need to address is. Is football fiction really a genre? Ray of the Rovers: the working class heroine in popular football fiction 1915-1925. Alethea Melling puts football fiction's roots in working-class “factory or dialect fiction”. But there are examples of football fictions existing before that. In. The Encyclopedia of British Football. Rally Round You Havens! Any work of fiction with a significant rel...

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the simplest game: April 2009

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Wednesday, April 29, 2009. Thesimplestgame is currently working on some rather dramatic (for us anyway) changes in format. I know. Sounds really exciting. It's not really. Links to this post. Tuesday, April 14, 2009. Have ye got a pair of boots? Player who’d been near a plate o’ haggis, tatties ’n neeps, an empty Irn Bru bottle or had been seen waiting outside their local chip shop for a battered mars bar supper, is still proving to be as stable a proposition as making an investment in ...Recruitment asi...

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the simplest game: December 2008

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Monday, December 29, 2008. Irn Bru and Boys in Dresses. I was going to leave this till the new year but I figured it’s a good place to close one year and enter into the spirit of the next where discussions about what isn’t and what is football fiction should continue unabated. Ferociously even, if I can manage it. David Walliams is the tall one from Little Britain. The Boy In The Dress. I lost the very stiff woman I was trying to sell it to at ‘…and he likes wearing dresses’. Odd in...See his Mum’s...

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the simplest game: May 2009

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Monday, May 18, 2009. Too old for football? Thesimplestgame is couch bound. Ripped a hole in the middle of a calf. Its no bovine injury, the back of the lower left leg feels like it has a bullet wound. 8220;Too old for football,” the wife laughed. Apparently there’s a cut off. When do we get too old for football? Isn’t it what keeps us young? The ranting at the telly, the boyhood obsession. The love of football was there before the wife was thought of. Yes, churlishness is a possibility. Changes in these...

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the simplest game: November 2008

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Thursday, November 27, 2008. Knuckleheads on football forums. The most worthy of international tournaments is almost upon us. Sunday night is draw night for the homeless world cup. The route to the final which takes places the following Sunday (that'll be the 7th) will be announced. It’s exciting. Heidi Klum won't be pulling the balls out of her bag, but it is exciting nonetheless. As an added bonus wee sleekit Sepp isn't there either. Author and long term friend of this blog, has vowed to give the tourn...

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the simplest game: August 2008

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Saturday, August 30, 2008. Is probably the best football fiction book on the shelf so far. It’s a rare beast, a work of literary football fiction. Another sub to this ever expanding wee genre. Author David Peace has written a number of other works including award winner GB84. An account of the British miner’s strike, a kind of Billy Elliot. For those less inclined to wear tights. Paced like one of Clough’s famous surges of fury, …United. Through Clough’s eyes we see the divisions threatening to bre...