The Final Whistle

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By Harry Reid

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Paperback

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Football, British Game, Fan Culture, Scotland

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Further Details

• Published: 31st Oct 2005
• ISBN: 1841583626

From the Publisher:

Scottish Football has many, frequently depressing, guises - the passionate impotence of the fans, the incompetence and mismanagement in the boardroom, the chronic inability to keep our players of talent and the squandering of the many assets we used to have.

Harry Reid's book is an examination of these various guises, a trawl through more than 40 years of Scottish fanhood.

In his quest to reach the centre of Scotland's footballing soul, Harry Reid interviewed a wide range of people, from household names to obscure fans, from famous coaches to wise outsiders, from no-hopers to geniuses - and yes, even the odd player too. The past is analysed, its many lessons examined, the present is clinically surveyed and the years to come are optimistically imagined - to Reid's own surprise he finds that there are grounds for hope for the future; meaningful revival is not impossible. But there needs to be a radical change in the game's structure, change that will be painful and extraordinarily difficult to push through.