The story of the 1985/86 football season, when Liverpool and Everton were the top two teams in the land and how, during this epic season, both the game and the City of Liverpool's reputation, changed for ever.
Tony Evans is a former columnist and football editor for The Times. He is the author of Two Tribes, Far Foreign Land and I Don't Know What It Is, But I Love It, and is now a writer and pundit. Before becoming a journalist, he spent his twenties following Liverpool FC and playing in bands, including a stint with The Farm. He lives in London with his wife and daughter.
The power of Tony Evans’s writing emerges from the juxtaposition of
football passion and political insight. A writer who understands
that the meaning and beauty of football emerges not from mere
tactics and line-ups but from the social context.
*Matthew Syed, author of Black Box Thinking*
Politically charged, and flashing between scenes of gallows humour
and improbable sporting achievement, Two Tribes is an
uncompromising portrayal. Tony Evans brilliantly captures a city
under fire through its rival footballers.
*Simon Hughes, author of Ring of Fire and Men in White Suits*
Highly recommended– not just on Merseyside, but for all who
remember that season fondly and for those who wish to recall or
understand an era when English football and society existed on a
knife-edge.
*The Times*
Tony Evans is a brilliant writer who knows these teams, this
subject, this era, this culture, these themes and this city better
than anybody, and this enthralling book makes that so clear.
*Independent*
Thatcher, tumult, tunes. This is more than just a football
book.
*Sunday Times*
A great read. As a Liverpool fan there is obvious interest. But to
me the book goes a lot deeper than that, covering Liverpool City’s
political climate in the ‘80s, the growth of football television
coverage, etc. Lots of fun.
*Evening Standard*
Not just a funny and forensic account of the year the city of
Liverpool was the undisputed capital of British football, but a
proud and unapologetic tribute to how that city stood up, in all
its radical beauty, to a brutal Thatcherite pounding. Two Tribes is
social history of football writing at its finest.
*Daily Mirror*
‘Two Tribes perfectly illustrates the relationship between football
and society in Thatcher’s Britain with as many twists and turns off
the pitch as on it…The sheer beauty of this book is its ability to
take you from the stinking alleyways and crumbling terraces that
were the norm for football supporters at that time… Two Tribes is
not a Liverpool book. It’s not an Everton book either. It’s a
snapshot of a time when watching football was often a matter of
survival. And that’s what makes it so good.’
*The Sportsman*
A coruscating snapshot of football and life on Merseyside during
Thatcher’s Britain.
*The Observer - Best Sports Books of 2018*
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