{"product_id":"9781399404068","title":"The Silence of the Stands : Finding the Joy in Football's Lost Season","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  Gray, Daniel \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eUnited Kingdom, Great Britain\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 10 November 2022 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (Bloomsbury Sport) in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback | 176 pages\u003cbr\u003e134 x 215 x 15 | 192g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2023 - FOOTBALL BOOK OF THE YEAR‘Powerful and poignant’ Henry Winter‘Empathetic and poignant … the game’s answer to A Journal of the Plague Year’ Harry Pearson‘The Durham City midfielder wore the resigned look of a man trying to find a jar of harissa in Farmfoods. Up front for Jarrow, a centre-forward darted around frenetically, as if chasing a kite during a hurricane...’When football disappeared in March 2020, writer and broadcaster Daniel Gray used its absence to reflect on everything the game meant to him. That bred a pledge: whenever and wherever fans were allowed to return, he would be there. The Silence of the Stands is the result of that pledge: a joyous travelogue documenting a precarious season, in which behind-closed-doors matches and travel restrictions combined to make trips to Kendal and Workington seem impossibly exotic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOffering a poignant peek at a surreal age and a slab of social history from the two-metre-distanced tea bar queue, this is the moving, heartfelt and surprisingly uplifting story of a unique season that no one wishes to repeat.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Far From The Madding Crowd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46829739507971,"sku":"9781399404068","price":12.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0404\/3207\/4914\/files\/9781399404068_8fcf7862-923e-4144-a240-bc6f0cfcb1e5.jpg?v=1748253525","url":"https:\/\/www.maddingcrowdlinlithgow.com\/products\/9781399404068","provider":"Far From The Madding Crowd","version":"1.0","type":"link"}