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Books : Fiction : Short Stories : Sport
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June 1, 1993, saw the final rumble in one of the greatest jungles in modern football--the North Enclosure at Parkhead, home to Glasgow Celtic FC. In its day the Jungle was admired and respected as one of the greatest of all football terraces, ranking alongside the Liverpool Kop and Manchester United's Stretford End as home to one of the most fanatical and passionate group of fans that modern football has ever seen. John Quinn's Jungle Tales is an unashamed nostalgia trip down Jungle memory lane, starting from the extraordinary evening in June 1993 when 20,000 fans arrived to pay farewell to The Jungle and to witness a clash between the past giants of Celtic and Manchester United. Jimmy Johnstone, Billy McNeill and Murdo MacLeod all turned on the style before a spellbound crowd, providing the perfect prelude to Quinn's marvellous collection of reminiscences of those who experienced The Jungle over the decades. The cast includes fans, players and celebrities. The stories of warm and funny, with tales of brilliance from the greats--Johnstone, Dalglish, Nicholas. What shines through is a sense of the camaraderie and bonds established through the love of football--a welcome antidote to the ways in which many books like this tend to glamorise violence on the terraces. --Jerry Brotton
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Is there a serious student of literature--or golf--who wouldn't give a stroke or two a side to be part of a Nassau that included, say, Don Marquis, Paul Gallico, P. G. Wodehouse, Ethan Canin, Ring Lardner, Stephen Leacock, Bernard Darwin, or John Updike? "People who care about golf," writes Paul Staudohar in his introduction to this marvellous and sometimes whimsical collection that packs all the above into its bag, "are typically well-educated men and women who appreciate things of quality in life, including good literature." The literature in Golf's Best Short Stories is indeed good: it contains 24 stories, dating from just before the turn of last century to just before the turn of this one, that explore some aspect of the mesmerising hold golf has on its adherents. Updike's "Farrell's Caddie," perhaps the most anthologised of all golf stories, is the ace here, but there's not a bogey in the bunch. What serious golfer--or reader--could ask for more?
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