Overview
Tom Connolly’s journey into non-league football unearthed something bigger than sport. The result is a collection of stunning photographs recording the lives lived on the perimeter of the pitch. For anyone who craves fairness in life and wants fairness in sport, modern elite football offers a confusing, love-hate relationship, one which sent Tom Connolly in search of the game he had fallen in love with as a boy. Like many of the men and women he met on the non-league terraces, he found it in grassroots football. Football fans have always been fair game for vilification and stereotyping. This book is about the human beings to be found in the beautiful game. Telling its story through a collection of remarkable black-and-white and colour photos of the people who make the game what it is, FAIR GAME reminds us that in community-minded non-league football clubs, the heart and soul of sport is alive and well, against all the odds and despite those running and owning the upper reaches of the game.
Full Product Details
Author: Tom Connolly
Publisher: Indelibe Imprint
Imprint: Indelibe Imprint
Dimensions:
Width: 28.20cm
, Height: 1.30cm
, Length: 24.70cm
ISBN: 9781527293656
ISBN 10: 1527293653
Pages: 112
Publication Date: 18 October 2021
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
This book is very timely. The world is moving, through choice and circumstance, away from big corporate to the 'local' and this is perfect. Going local does not mean your world is shrinking. It's the opposite. And this book is testament to that. - Award-winning photographer, Michael Donald, whose 2018 book GOAL! was shortlisted for Sports Book of the Year; A stunning photographic record of non-league life. - Sussex Express
“This book is very timely. The world is moving, through choice and circumstance, away from big corporate to the ‘local’ and this is perfect. Going local does not mean your world is shrinking. It’s the opposite. And this book is testament to that.” – Award-winning photographer, Michael Donald, whose 2018 book GOAL! was shortlisted for Sports Book of the Year; “A stunning photographic record of non-league life.” – Sussex Express
Author Information
Author Website: http://https://www.connolly.photos/
TOM CONNOLLY used to play non-league football and make films. Now he writes novels, takes photographs and windsurfs. His new novel SEPARATION FOR BEGINNERS will be published by Welbeck in July 2022 under the pen name Joe Portman. His first two novels, THE SPIDER TRUCES and MEN LIKE AIR, were published by Myriad Editions to critical acclaim. He has written for Esquire, The Guardian, The Observer, The Independent and Radio 4.
