Football In Sun And Shadow Av Eduardo Galeano

<p>''Football is a pleasure that hurts''<br><br>This unashamedly emotional history of football is a homage to the romance and drama, spectacle and passion of a ''great pagan mass''. Through stories of superstition, heartbreak, tragedy, luck, heroes and villains, those who lived for football and those who died for it, Eduardo Galeano celebrates the glory of a game that - however much the rich and powerful try to control it - still retains its magic.<br><br>''The Uruguayan whose writing got right to the heart of football ... readers were never in doubt of the warmth of the blood running through his veins'' <i>Guardian</i><br><br>''Galeano can run rings round our glamorous football intelligentsia'' <i>When Saturday Comes</i><br><br>''Stands out like Pele on a field of second-stringers'' <i>New Yorker</i></p>