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Promised Land

A Northern Love Story

Anthony Clavane

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English
Yellow Jersey Press
15 September 2011
Anthony's love letter to football, to his own club, Leeds, and the city that made it, was unviersally acclaimed in hardback and prize-nominated.

This is a book about football. It's about unconditional love for a club, even when it doesn't always seem to love you back. But it is also a book about much more than that.

Anthony Clavane loves Leeds - certainly the football club, but also the city, and the tribes that make it. Now that he is an exile in the South, his frequent pilgrimages to the stadium speak for themselves. But he no less loves the rarely-glimpsed back-streets of his youth; and even has a feel for the long-gone slums where his ancestors once settled. Leeds is his promised land; idealised and unreachable, yet still it defines him.

'Sports writing at its very best' Daily Telegraph
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Imprint:   Yellow Jersey Press
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 129mm,  Spine: 20mm
Weight:   247g
ISBN:   9780224082648
ISBN 10:   0224082647
Pages:   320
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Anthony Clavane was born in Leeds in 1960, a year before Don Revie became manager. He started life as a history teacher and is now chief sports writer of the Sunday Mirror.

Reviews for Promised Land: A Northern Love Story

Absorbing, compelling and very personal. Brilliant * David Peace * 'Original, passionate, thought-provoking and hugely enjoyable' * The Times * 'Sports book of the year' * Radio 2 * 'Compelling...Glorious...Has an appeal far beyond football' * Guardian * 'Absolutely brilliant' * Independent on Sunday * 'Engaging and ambitious - crafted from the author's own personal story, passions and obsessions' * Esquire * Sports writing at its very best * Daily Telegraph * The football book of the year * Sunday Times * A love song to the North, and all the contradictions and little irritations about the region that make us love it more"" * Yorkshire Post * Promised Land' distinguishes itself from your average football book with a framing device evoking the Exodus. This enables Clavane to elegantly and evocatively explore his own Jewishness and the influence of the Israeli diaspora on his beloved football team as well as offering a potted history of the temper and temperament of the city itself ... Clavane's vision is far from gloomy - Leeds has a knack for self-sabotage but it's eminently capable of reinvention too * Timeout *


  • Winner of British Sports Book Awards: Best Football Book 2011
  • Winner of British Sports Book Awards: Best Football Book 2011.

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