Sports and Active Outdoor Recreation, Ball Sports / Ball Games, Football Variants and Related Games, Association Football (soccer)

Inside the Divide: One City, Two Teams - The Old Firm
Paperback Published on: 02/08/2012
Price: £12.99
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Synopsis
Since 1888, Rangers and Celtic football clubs have been locked into an intense and frequently explosive rivalry: Rangers the product of West Scotland's Protestant establishment, Celtic the team founded to raise money for the Catholic underclass of Glasgow.
On 2 January 2010 the two teams met in the Old Firm's New Year Derby, a fixture that had been banned for ten years because of the trouble it brought with it. Richard Wilson puts that game at the centre of a book which delves into the history and widens out to the cultural resonance of the fixture within Scotland. It is a potent mix of close-up observation and big-picture thinking, with insight, understanding and depth.
Publisher information
- Publisher: Canongate Books
- ISBN: 9781847678393
- Number of pages: 250
- Dimensions: 198 x 128 x 18 mm
- Weight: 206g
- Languages: English