Carry on up the Corner Flag
R.W. Johnson: The sociology of football, 24 July 2003
Ajax, the Dutch, the War: Football in Europe during the Second World War
by Simon Kuper.
Orion, 244 pp., £14.99, January 2003,0 7528 5149 7 Show More
by Simon Kuper.
Orion, 244 pp., £14.99, January 2003,
“... is pure ‘Carry on up the Corner Flag’. Later, Kuper interviews the Preston North End winger Tom Finney about the Cup Final of 1941, when Preston beat Arsenal. Wasn’t it odd, he asks, to play the final in bombed-out London? ‘I wasn’t all that interested in the war when I was playing,’ Finney answers. ‘I was only 18. And the main concern was to ... ”