Heart and Soul : Footy Stories by Those Who Played the Game

Slattery Media Group, 2019. Trade Paperback. Very Good. Trade Paperback. 288 pages. *** PUBLISHING DETAILS: Slattery Media Group, 2019. *** CONDITION: This book is in very good condition. More specifically: Covers have no creasing. Corners of covers are lightly bumped. Spine is uncreased. . Pages are clean and unmarked and in excellent condition except for gift inscription in ink. *** ABOUT THIS BOOK: Football is a heart and soul game, AFL Legend Ron Barassi once told Matt Zurbo. Taking that observation as his cue, Zurbo travelled across Australia interviewing players great and good, from the famous to the journeymen. In doing so, Zurbohimself a veteran of 650 amateur games and countinghas recorded the footy stories of some of the games characters, from Rene Kaink and Graham Cornes to Joe Misiti and Robert Bones McGhie. The result is the players oral history of footy through seven decades, in their own words. In Heart and Soul: Footy Stories by Those Who Played the Game, Zurbo has skilfully revived memories of the classic games, the torturous training sessions, and the premiership hijinks, taking us back into smoke-filled social clubs and the suburban fortresses at which myths and legends were born. For every marquee name like Barassi, from whom familiar and fantastical tales spill, there is an Ian Paton, Russell Renfrey or a Mark Zanotticharacters whose outsized tales of lives spent chasing a Sherrin never got quite the same airtime as the superstars of the game. Their stories are just as revealing. Footy fans with an abiding concern for the gamenot only the results of matches, but of the moral health of the organisations who control themoften lament the intrusion of commercial forces on our native football code, a game for so long enmeshed in the lives of ordinary Australians. *** Quantity Available: 1. Category: Sports & Pastimes; ISBN/EAN: 9780958029087. Inventory No: 23110203.. 9780958029087