Seventeen Miles from Paradise - Colin Farmery - Desert Island, 2020
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Seventeen Miles from Paradise
Southampton v Portsmouth - The Sequel
di Colin Farmery
Editore: Desert Island Books Limited
EAN: 9781905328413
ISBN: 1905328419
Pagine: 256
Formato: Hardback
To see our full range of football books, click on "Kindle Store" and search for DESERT ISLAND SPORT.Just seventeen miles separates the Hampshire cities of Southampton and Portsmouth. But for more than a century, for one reason or another, their two respective football clubs have seemed worlds apart.From the pair’s early jousts in the Southern League at the beginning of the Twentieth Century, through Pompey’s FA Cup and League Championship glory years, and on to Saints’ recent domination, this complex, yet largely immature, rivalry is investigated from all angles.Seventeen Miles from Paradise celebrates the pride underpinning a peculiarly south-coast passion, while at the same time delving into the murky depths of prejudice, on both sides, which all too often poisons the atmosphere at derby matches.Drawing on archive material, this book analyses the success and failure enjoyed and endured by each club, setting the context for a regional pecking order that has never been easy to establish.This book introduces the fans, managers and players of both clubs – especially those who crossed over – and unpicks the controversies attending key matches over the decades. In this battle for south-coast supremacy, where fear and loathing have invariably triumphed over mutual respect, this book attempts to set the record straight. Seventeen Miles from Paradise is an essential read for all Saints and Pompey fans.This edition takes the story up to 2008.