I’ve fixed it for you.
Me too. Totally agree.
Brilliant book.
I remember that cover and wondering who the keeper was!
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He deployed the c word frequently and it sounded particularly effective in his educated tones.Brian Glanville was fearless, witty and hovered in the press box like Banquo’s ghost
Brian Glanville, who has died aged 93, loved football but detested much about the modern game
Brian Glanville was fearless, witty and hovered in the press box like Banquo’s ghost
Nobody swore so elegantly as Glanville, who hovered in the press box like Banquo’s ghost, the gathering’s invisible conscience, ready to deliver a scathing observation, relayed, sotto voce, to a nearby colleague like a chorus baritone in one of his favourite operas.
Sitting behind me in the Tottenham press box during one match, he leaned forward to remark – apropos bugger all – on the future of the then struggling young Sunday Correspondent: “It has the smell of death about it.” Garth Crooks, who was sitting next to him, was as bemused as he was amused.
