‘I wouldn’t pay it either’
Simon Skinner: World Cup Wallcharts, 25 June 2026
The Power and the Glory: A New History of the World Cup
by Jonathan Wilson.
Little Brown, 608 pp., £12.99, May,978 0 349 14573 0 Show More
by Jonathan Wilson.
Little Brown, 608 pp., £12.99, May,
“... consumer’. Paul Gascoigne was, Wilson says, ‘catnip’ to this demographic, citing Ian Hamilton’s writing in Granta and Karl Miller’s celebrated paean in the LRB (29 July 1990): ‘fierce and comic, formidable and vulnerable, urchin-like and waif-like, a strong head and torso with comparatively frail-looking breakable ... ”