Brian Glanville, novelist and journalist, is one of the best writers on football. He spent nearly thirty years as a football correspondent for the
Sunday Times to which he is still a contributor. He has also written for
The People as well as contributing obituaries of prominent players to
The Guardian.
Simon Barnes has said of him, 'Football has been better served than most sports with grown-up fiction, all of it from Brian Glanville, who has written some beautiful short stories and the classic Sixties period piece,
The Rise of Gerry Logan.'
And A. J. Ayer, 'Brian Glanville himself is a literary exception ... he is the best football journalist of recent times and the best writer of football fiction.'
Faber Finds have reissued three of his novels - his two on football,
The Rise of Gerry Logan and
The Dying of the Light as well as
The Olympian.
'The best book on football ever written.' Franz Beckenbauer, winner of the World Cup as both player and manager.
In Football Memories, Brian Glanville himself writes, 'The central character, Garry, was a Scottish inside-forward based on Danny Blanchflower. This, largely because...
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