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In praise of Brian Glanville and those who taught us to love sport
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Sportswriters have heroes, too, and some of them are fellow scribes who write about flawed heroes.
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Every World Cup it was tugged from the bookshelf, a coffee stain on one page, pen markings on another, a book as dishevelled as an old companion. Into its learned chapters we dived and invariably emerged sounding smarter.
The man who wrote The Story of The World Cup (published 1993) was born a year after the first Cup in 1930. Once it was impossible to know football and not him. Now Brian Glanville, the writer, is gone, up there in some celestial field, keeping notes on Diego Maradona’s cunning.
