When football disappeared in March 2020 Daniel Gray pledged that whenever and wherever fans were allowed to return, he would be there. A moving, heartfelt and amusing account of a unique season that no one wishes to repeat.
Daniel Gray is the author of Extra Time, Black Boots and Football Pinks, Saturday, 3pm and Scribbles in the Margins. He has written eight other books on football, politics, history and travel. His recent work has included screenwriting, presenting social history on television, editing a football magazine and writing across a number of national titles. He also presents the When Saturday Comes podcast.
When society locked down, football played on without fans. A
powerful and poignant look at life behind closed doors.
*Henry Winter*
Joy is at the heart of Gray's writing; his delight in the little
things, humble settings and small human dramas involved in the
game. From the dark of Covid, this breezy and bright love letter to
football was produced. Smile. Enjoy.
*Sunday Times*
A vivid, funny reminder of what was the weirdest time ever to be a
football fan. Empathetic and poignant, it's the game's answer to A
Journal of the Plague Year.
*Harry Pearson*
Gray is a master of observing and amplifying the things we love
about football but wonder if anyone else even notices
*The Times*
Gray writes like Lowry paints. Superb
*BBC Radio*
Gray is an endearing and authentic football observer, and this book
reaffirms the meaning and importance of football in so many
ways.
*Late Tackle magazine*
A joyous travelogue documenting a rocky season…offering a poignant
peak at a surreal age and a slab of social history…moving,
heartfelt and surprising uplifting.
*Four Four Two*
His peerless eye for the game’s endless little oddities and charms
is used to chronicle his own return to the terraces after the
forced exile of lockdown. No-one else writes with such obvious
appreciation and warmth for the game.
*The Scottish Times*
We’re spoiled that the writer engaged with this task is Daniel
Gray, who navigated complicated lockdown rules to produce this
poetic account of football while the fans were locked out.
*Scotland on Sunday*
Covid could not stop football but it could stop fans from attending
a game. It is a time that deserves to be recorded. It has found its
peerless chronicler in Daniel Gray.
*The Daily Mail*
A joyous travelogue documenting a precarious season…moving,
heartfelt and surprisingly uplifting
*When Saturday Comes*
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