Sightlines
  • Published: 30 November 2011
  • ISBN: 9781448103997
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 320
Categories:

Sightlines

A Stadium Odyssey

Buy from…
Amazon Apple Books Google Play Kobo Booktopia eBooks.com

A spectator's personal quest around the stadiums of the world.

Simon Inglis is a fan with a mission. Fed up with being labelled an anorak, yet repeatedly led astray by the glimpse of a grandstand accross a crowded city, he searches the world for a deeper meaning behind his fascination with stadiums.

What is it, he asks en route from ancient Olympia to Sydney 2000, about men and neatly-edged turf? Why are there more football grounds in Buenos Aires than public libraries? Why do Auckland residents resent their local stadium while those in Chicago celebrate theirs? And what can we learn from the Indians, the Irish and a huckster from Huston?

The perfect companion volume to his bestselling books on football grounds, Sightlines is full of insight, wit, anecdotes and characters from a world beyond that every sports fan will recognise. It is proof that he is not alone.
  • Published: 30 November 2011
  • ISBN: 9781448103997
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 320
Categories:

About the author

Simon Inglis

Born in Birmingham, writer and broadcaster Simon Inglis penned his first comments on stadiums at the age of six. Among various football and stadium-related works he is best known for the acclaimed Sightlines: A Stadium Odyssey, Football Grounds of Europe (1990) and the bestselling Football Grounds of Britain (1996). When not watching Aston Villa, he lives with his wife and two cats in London, coincidentally - he insists - halfway between Wembley Stadium and Lord's cricket ground.

Praise for Sightlines

A terrific book, full of unexpected wisdom, unforced humour and unfeigned amazement. It will remind you of why you love sport and why you love live sport

Four Four Two

Another classic. A glorious stadium odyssey

Frank Keating, Guardian

Inglis is the spiritual leader for us poor souls who suffer a sinful quickening of the pulse when we see floodlights looming...in a curious love-song to the modern sporting arena...his journey is one that demands company

Irish Times
penguin pop image
penguin pop image