The latest report from the two unfortunates on football cities takes on London. That’s a big task, given the number of clubs in the city.
Quite rightly, the author focuses not so much on the clubs but on the city itself, including its status as a city region and a global city and the way in which that affects football. He concludes that football in London is in many respects a corporate led junket.
The latest report from the two unfortunates on football cities takes on London. That’s a big task, given the number of clubs in the city.
Quite rightly, the author focuses not so much on the clubs but on the city itself, including its status as a city region and a global city and the way in which that affects football. He concludes that football in London is in many respects a corporate led junket.
It inspired me to get down from the bookshelves a copy of a book by one of my favourite authors, Charlue Connelly, entitled London Fields: a Journey Through Football’s Metroland. Connelly set out to find whether there was a football spirit unique to the metropolis and quickly concluded that there was no such thing.
A lot of the book is about the city’s non-league clubs who have to try and create an identity in an ill-defined surburban wasteland. The description of the two man Wembley away ‘firm’ is hilarious.