Jungle Days, 9781836801955
Hardcover
Celtic in the turbulent 80s: A devotion, identity, and social history.

Jungle Days

supporting celtic in the 1980s

$52.69

  • Hardcover

    256 pages

  • Release Date

    22 September 2025

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Summary

Jungle Days: A Celtic State of Mind in the 1980s

John Wight spares nothing in his appraisal of Glasgow Celtic Football Club as a cause to live by rather than just a club to support, with a special focus on the 1980s.

By the author of This Boxing Game: A Journey in Beautiful Brutality, this engrossing book is perfect for all Celtic fans and anyone interested in social history.

During the tempestuous 1980s, when Thatcher and Thatcherism ruled …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781836801955
ISBN-10:1836801955
Author:John Wight
Publisher:Pitch Publishing Ltd
Imprint:Pitch Publishing Ltd
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:256
Release Date:22 September 2025
Weight:402g
Dimensions:222mm x 144mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

“There can be few more brutally honest and passionate football books than this offering by John Wight… This is a fascinating book, even for the non-football follower or non-Celtic fan, because of the other societal areas it covers.”

– Karl Hornsey * On: Yorkshire Magazine *

Jungle Days lays bare the eighties. [It’s] a highly honest and authentic account of a personal connection with the ideals of the club.”

* Football Book Reviews *

About The Author

John Wight

John Wight is a writer and author whose work covers politics, geopolitics, culture and sport. Jungle Days is his second book with Pitch Publishing, after his successful debut title, This Boxing Game: A Journey in Beautiful Brutality. He also writes fiction, with three novels to his name: The Reckoning Time, Gaza: This Bleeding Land and The Ocean.

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