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Football in Sun and Shadow

`Football is a pleasure that hurts`This unashamedly emotional history of football is a homage to the romance and drama, spectacle and passion of a `great pagan mass`. Through stories of superstition, heartbreak, tragedy, luck, heroes and villains, those who lived for football and those who died for it, Eduardo Galeano celebrates the glory of a game that – however much the rich and powerful try to control it – still retains its magic.`The Uruguayan whose writing got right to the heart of football … readers were never in doubt of the warmth of the blood running through his veins` Guardian`Galeano can run rings round our glamorous football intelligentsia` When Saturday Comes`Stands out like Pele on a field of second-stringers` New Yorker