Summer of Blood

Anyone who fancies a break from the sponsor-heavy sprawl of the World Cup might enjoy Richard Sanders’ excellent history of British football. It’s called ‘Beastly Fury: The Strange Birth of British Football’. I am reading it in hardback, but it came out last year some time so is probably out in soft-cover now. Sanders starts the story proper with the Shrove Tuesday brawls of the nineteenth century, but there are a couple of mentions of the medieval game early on.

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