Delights of Football Daniel Gray, Alex Gillett and Kevin Tennent
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From sportswashing to ticket prices, we hear much that is critical about modern football - but what remains magic about the game? From the beauty of floodlights to the glorious moment when a referee falls over, Daniel Gray, author of the Delights series of football books and owner of a Bootham Crescent turnstile, lyrically celebrates the simple joys of the beautiful game.
Join in the conversation at an event hosted by York’s Soccer-Mad Boffins Alex Gillett and Kevin Tennent of the University of York.
Book sales
You can buy copies of many of our speakers’ books from Fox Lane Books, a local independent bookseller and Festival partner. In some cases, author signed bookplates are available too.
About the speakers
Daniel Gray is the author of the Delights series of football books, Stramash and Homage to Caledonia. For a short period in the early 1990s he was the finest left-back in his village, once marking Gordon Strachan’s youngest son (the one who didn’t become a footballer) out of the game. A Middlesbrough supporter, Daniel began attending football matches in 1988 and has never recovered. He has worked in a psychiatric hospital, a library and in television and politics.
Regular contributors to the York Festival of Ideas, Dr Alex G Gillett is a Senior Lecturer and Dr Kevin D Tennent a Reader in the School for Business and Society, University of York, UK. They are authors of books and research articles about the business history of football and the FIFA World Cup, and of football club marketing and segmentation. They have contributed to exhibitions at the National Football Museum in Manchester and at Wembley Stadium in London.
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