The Bottom Corner: Hope, Glory and Non-League Football

In these days of oligarch owners, superstar managers and players on sky-high wages, the tide is turning towards the lower reaches of the pyramid as fans search for football with a soul.

Plucky underdogs or perennial underachievers, your local non-league team offers hope, drama or at least a Saturday afternoon ritual that's been going for decades. Nige Tassell spends a season in the non-league world. He meets the raffle-ticket seller who wants her ashes scattered in the centre-circle. The envelope salesman who discovered a future England international. The ex-pros still playing with undiluted passion on Sunday mornings. He spends time at clubs looking for promotion to the Football League, clubs just aiming to get eleven players on a pitch every week, and everything in between.

One thing unites them: they all inhabit the heartland of the beautiful game.

'The Bottom Corner is a wonderful journey through life in the lower reaches of the football pyramid. A fascinating tale of a very different world of football from that of the overpaid stars of the television age' Barry Davies

Title - The Bottom Corner: Hope, Glory and Non-League Football

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Author - Nige Tassell

ISBN 13 - 9780224100601

Imprint - Yellow Jersey Press

Publisher - Vintage Publishing

Date Published - 03/08/2017

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Binding Type - Paperback

Dimensions - 129 x 198 x 19mm

Weight - 223 g

Languages - English