An examination of football's greatest rivalry between Barcelona and Real Madrid by the top Spanish football expert and historian Sid Lowe
Sid Lowe is the Spanish football correspondent for the Guardian and World Soccer. He is a regular contributor to the popular Guardian Football Weekly podcast and writes for FourFourTwo. He works as a commentator and panellist for Spanish, Asian and US television and appears regularly on Spanish radio show Al Primer Toque. His previous book, Catholicism, War and the Foundation of Francoism, is about the causes of the Spanish civil war, the rise of fascism, and the creation of the Franco state. He lives in Spain.
One of the year’s best football books … an extremely well-informed
and usefully myth-busting portrait
*Guardian*
Fascinating
*Sunday Independent*
Sports Book of the Year
*Sunday Times*
Football Books of the Year: Sid Lowe isn’t an ordinary football
writer and, as a result, this is not an ordinary football book.
Lowe paces it all so well ... like an engaging lesson from your
favourite teacher
*Daily Mirror*
A revelation. Anyone interested in Spain's two biggest teams can
learn something new from this labour of love ... tackling tricky
subjects with skill and weaving them into an engaging story. For
that, this book stands out from the rest.
*talksport.com*
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