The Penalty Kick: The Story of a Gamechanger by Robert McCrum Hardcover Book

by Robert Mccrum

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The Penalty Kick by Robert McCrum Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Hardcover Condition Brand New Description Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for ninety minutes and at the end, the Germans win. Gary Lineker Publisher Description A rousing history of the penalty kick and its introduction in English football by a famed British writer editor.A rousing history of the penalty kick and its introduction in English football by a famed British writer , in the 1880s, was a rough and dangerous game. To address the abhorrent state of the sport, William McCrum, an amateur Irish goalkeeper and the author s great-grandfather, proposed the penalty kick, a new and drastic sanction introduced to the game in 1891. For over a hundred years, this extraordinary phenomenon has not only regulated the conduct of football (also known as soccer) but has also inspired game theories and infiltrated classics of contemporary enthralling portrait of a lost age, The Penalty Kick- The Story of a Gamechanger is a family history, a social history, and a history of the world s most popular sport. It considers an extraordinary phenomenon as it examines the penalty kick s psychological-even philosophical-grip on our imaginations, with its distillation of risk and chance into the penalty shoot-out, an all-or-nothing moment. Details ISBN 1912559579 ISBN-13 9781912559572 Title The Penalty Kick Author Robert McCrum Format Hardcover Year 2024 Pages 200 Publisher Notting Hill Editions G

• Publisher: Notting Hill Editions
• Year: 2024
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9781912559572
• Condition: Fine

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