Since 1888, Rangers and Celtic football clubs have been locked into an intense and frequently explosive rivalry: Rangers the product of West Scotland''s Protestant establishment, Celtic the team founded to raise money for the Catholic underclass of Glasgow.
On 2 January 2010 the two teams met in the Old Firm''s New Year Derby, a fixture that had been banned for ten years because of the trouble it brought with itRichard Wilson puts that game at the centre of a book which delves into the history and widens out to the cultural resonance of the fixture within Scotland. It is a potent mix of close-up observation and big-picture thinking, with insight, understanding and depth.
Format |
Häftad |
Omfång |
272 sidor |
Språk |
Engelska |
Förlag |
Canongate Books |
Utgivningsdatum |
2012-08-02 |
ISBN |
9781847678393 |