| Author: | Patrick Mangan | ISBN: | 9780994507303 |
| Publisher: | Patrick Mangan | Publication: | June 15, 2017 |
| Imprint: | Patrick Mangan | Language: | English |
| Author: | Patrick Mangan |
| ISBN: | 9780994507303 |
| Publisher: | Patrick Mangan |
| Publication: | June 15, 2017 |
| Imprint: | Patrick Mangan |
| Language: | English |
‘A wonderful book – I was helplessly absorbed’ – Bill Bryson
In his memoir The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Gunner, former football journalist Patrick Mangan relives the agony and the ecstasy of growing up in rural Australia in the 1970s as an Arsenal-FC-supporting English immigrant cast helplessly adrift from the mother country.
Like Nick Hornby’s Fever Pitch set among the gum trees and the dust, this is the tale of a scrawny Pommy kid falling desperately in love with the world game, the Gunners and the Socceroos, as well as his unrelenting – occasionally unfathomable – crusade to convert the pagans of the Aussie outback to his noble cause.
‘Utterly beguiling’ – Geraldine Doogue, Radio National, Australia
‘Exuberant and self-deprecating’ – The Age
‘Dead-set fantastic – I think it’s the fastest I’ve ever read a book’ – Santo Cilauro, co-host of Santo, Sam and Ed’s Total Football
Originally published as Offsider by Melbourne University Press
‘A wonderful book – I was helplessly absorbed’ – Bill Bryson
In his memoir The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Gunner, former football journalist Patrick Mangan relives the agony and the ecstasy of growing up in rural Australia in the 1970s as an Arsenal-FC-supporting English immigrant cast helplessly adrift from the mother country.
Like Nick Hornby’s Fever Pitch set among the gum trees and the dust, this is the tale of a scrawny Pommy kid falling desperately in love with the world game, the Gunners and the Socceroos, as well as his unrelenting – occasionally unfathomable – crusade to convert the pagans of the Aussie outback to his noble cause.
‘Utterly beguiling’ – Geraldine Doogue, Radio National, Australia
‘Exuberant and self-deprecating’ – The Age
‘Dead-set fantastic – I think it’s the fastest I’ve ever read a book’ – Santo Cilauro, co-host of Santo, Sam and Ed’s Total Football
Originally published as Offsider by Melbourne University Press
