From stadium to page : why football deserves more fiction

(2013) From stadium to page : why football deserves more fiction. The Conversation, November(19), 2013. [Article]

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A great football novel is like a perfectly executed bicycle-kick goal, like players such as Argentine legends Diego Maradona and Lionel Messi; they come along once in a generation. Against the accumulated volume of non-fiction football literature (some people still call it soccer), which could fill and spill out of a World Cup Stadium, football novels are comparatively rare. That said, football or soccer fiction is a genre with a very real and important historical longevity...

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Keywords: Football Fiction, Football Writing, Soccer Fiction, Soccer Writing
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