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Manchester City Ruined My Life

Colin Shindler
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      Colin Shindler first wrote of his deep love for Manchester City in Manchester United Ruined My Life. Now he tells the story of his sorrowful disenchantment with his home town club as, on the instruction of its new foreign owners, it turns itself remorselessly into a global brand.From the nail-biting victory over Gillingham 1999 to the equally dramatic winning of the Premier League in May 2012 Shindler watches as his team becomes more successful yet, to his own bewilderment, he feels increasingly alienated from the club. This is the story of a frustrated romantic who finds in the glitz and glamour of the current media-obsessed game a helter-skelter of artificially fabricated excitement. As he details how football courses through his veins, Shindler reveals how it intersects with his own life, a life that has been marked by family tragedy, and how he finally found personal redemption even as his team lost its soul.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Colin Shindler EAN: 9780755363612 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 228 g HEIGHT: 197 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Headline Publishing Group DATE PUBLISHED: 2013-05-09 CITY: GENRE: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs WIDTH: 129 cm SPINE:

      Book Themes:

      Autobiography: sport, Memoirs

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      Colin Shindler was born and raised in Manchester, educated at Bury Grammar School and Gonville & Caius College Cambridge, and has worked as a writer and a producer in film, television and radio.  He has written two novels and presented history programmes on radio and television.  In addition to the books and articles he has written on sport and British and American social and cultural history, he also lectures on film and history at Cambridge University. In recent years he has never been happier than when he saw Lancashire win the County Championship in 2011.
      Colin Shindler first wrote of his deep love for Manchester City in Manchester United Ruined My Life. Now he tells the story of his sorrowful disenchantment with his home town club as, on the instruction of its new foreign owners, it turns itself remorselessly into a global brand.From the nail-biting victory over Gillingham 1999 to the equally dramatic winning of the Premier League in May 2012 Shindler watches as his team becomes more successful yet, to his own bewilderment, he feels increasingly alienated from the club. This is the story of a frustrated romantic who finds in the glitz and glamour of the current media-obsessed game a helter-skelter of artificially fabricated excitement. As he details how football courses through his veins, Shindler reveals how it intersects with his own life, a life that has been marked by family tragedy, and how he finally found personal redemption even as his team lost its soul.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Colin Shindler EAN: 9780755363612 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 228 g HEIGHT: 197 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Headline Publishing Group DATE PUBLISHED: 2013-05-09 CITY: GENRE: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs WIDTH: 129 cm SPINE:

      Book Themes:

      Autobiography: sport, Memoirs

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      Colin Shindler was born and raised in Manchester, educated at Bury Grammar School and Gonville & Caius College Cambridge, and has worked as a writer and a producer in film, television and radio.  He has written two novels and presented history programmes on radio and television.  In addition to the books and articles he has written on sport and British and American social and cultural history, he also lectures on film and history at Cambridge University. In recent years he has never been happier than when he saw Lancashire win the County Championship in 2011.

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