Football in Sun and Shadow

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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.

`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` Guardian

`Galeano can run rings round our glamorous football intelligentsia` When Saturday Comes

`Stands out like Pele on a field of second-stringers` New Yorker