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Long Distance Love In the series Sporting edited by Amy Bass ALSO IN THIS SERIES: Tommie Smith, Silent Gesture: The Autobiography of Tommie Smith Long Distance Love A Passion for Football Grant Farred TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS Philadelphia TEMPLE UNIVERSITY PRESS 1601 North Broad Street Philadelphia PA 19122 www.temple.edu/tempress Copyright © 2008 by Temple University All rights reserved Published 2008 Printed in the United States of America The paper used in this publication meets the requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1992 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Farred, Grant. Long distance love : a passion for football / Grant Farred. p. cm. — (Sporting) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13: 978-1-59213-373-4 ISBN-10: 1-59213-373-8 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN-13: 978-1-59213-374-1 ISBN-10: 1-59213-374-6 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Liverpool Football Club. 2. Soccer fans. 3. Soccer—Social aspects. I. Title. GV943.6.L55F37 2008 796.33409427'53—dc22 2007024429 2 4 6 8 9 7 5 3 1 This book is dedicated to John Barnes and Steven Gerrard: To John Barnes, God To Steven Gerrard, God’s Own Son Contents Acknowledgments ▪ ix Introduction: A Talk, Drinks, and Dinner with God ▪ 1 Long Distance Love: Growing Up a Liverpool Football Club Fan ▪ 26 Los Desaparecidos y la Copa Mundial ▪ 60 Som Més que un Club, però Menys que una Nació: More than a Club, but Less than a Nation ▪ 82 Careless Whispers: The Doubleness of Spanish Love ▪ 98 At Home, Out of Place ▪ 128 God’s Team: The Painful Pleasure of the Miracle on the Bosphorus ▪ 149 The Gerrard Final ▪ 169 Notes ▪ 189 Index ▪ 199 Acknowledgments Long Distance Love is my dedication to Liverpool Football Club, my way of saying “thank you” for . . . well, too many things . . . trophies won, the players who represent the club, the way Liver- pool conducts itself . . . The Liverpool Way. My second greatest debt is to all those phenomenal managers, coaches, and players, too many to mention, who have given more meaning to my life than they could possibly even imagine: from Ron Yeats to Alan Hansen, from Phil Neal to Mark Lawrenson, from Steve Heighway to Mark Walters, from Kevin Keegan to Ian Rush, from Kenny Dalglish to Michael Owen, from Alan Kennedy to Peter Beards- ley, from John Aldridge to Jamie Carragher. And countless others. To the managers: Bill Shankly, for that sparkling way of being; Bob Pais- ley, The Greatest Manager of All Time in English football; Kenny Dalglish, for how he made us play football during his tenure; and Rafa Benítez, for the Miracle on the Bosphorus. I owe them all a massive debt of gratitude for what they have made Liverpool mean to me. For playing, managing, and coaching Liverpool as though it were the most important thing on earth—which, of course, it is. What they did on the fi eld almost always made me immensely proud of my team. I am indebted to my brother Glenn, who shares, perhaps more uncritically, my love for Liverpool Football Club. And, to my mother,
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