Union Jock
Sleeping with the Auld Enemy
$47.34
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
15 July 2008
Summary
Can a Scotsman ever support the Auld Enemy? Find out in Aidan Smith’s brilliantly funny new history of a centuries-old rivalry.
July 30, 1966. Bobby Moore is lifting the Jules Rimet trophy, Denis Law is playing golf, and a young boy in Edinburgh is being taught the most important lesson of his life: no matter who England are playing, you support the other lot. If the opposition have a dodgy human rights record, or are cruel to wasps, or can’t even be located on a large-format map - to…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780224080156 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0224080156 |
| Author: | Aidan Smith |
| Publisher: | Vintage Publishing |
| Imprint: | Yellow Jersey Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 15 July 2008 |
| Weight: | 295g |
| Dimensions: | 216mm x 135mm x 21mm |
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An entertaining and enlightening cross-cultural border exchange
An entertaining and enlightening cross-cultural border exchange * Metro *A journey into the psyche of a foreign nation… part travelogue, part autobiography, part humorous musing * Four Four Two *
About The Author
Aidan Smith
Aidan Smith has lived in Edinburgh all his life, and is currently Senior Feature Writer of Scotland on Sunday. He is the author of one previous book - Heartfelt- Supping Bovril from the Devil’s Cup - which Irvine Welsh called ‘the best book I’ve ever read about football’.
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