Fair Game
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Tom Connolly’s photographic collection reveals the beautiful truth behind grassroots football.
DESCRIPTION
For anyone who craves fairness in life and wants fairness in sport, modern elite football offers a confusing, love-hate relationship, one which sent Tom Connolly in search of the game he had fallen in love with as a boy. Connolly’s journey into non-league football unearthed something bigger than sport. The result is a collection of stunning photographs recording the lives lived on the perimeter of the pitch.
Football fans have always been fair game for vilification and stereotyping. This book is about the human beings to be found in the beautiful game. Telling its story through a collection of remarkable black-and-white and colour photos of the people who make the game what it is, Fair Game reminds us that in community-minded non-league football clubs, the heart and soul of sport is alive and well, against all the odds and despite those running and owning the upper reaches of the game.
“I saw my first match at the age of 4, at the oasis of cheeky repartee that was Millwall’s The Den. I first went to Highbury when I was six, when Arsenal were crap. I have been a fanatical supporter of the club ever since, through good times and bad, through my own bad behaviour and good, and they will always be my team. But to find the magical feeling I used to get from going there with my dad, I had to search elsewhere. This book of photographs is the story of that search.”
WHAT THEY SAY
“This book is very timely. The world is moving, through choice and circumstance, away from big corporate to the ’local’ and this is perfect. Going local does not mean your world is shrinking. It’s the opposite. And this book is testament to that.” – Michael Donald, John Kobal Photographic Award
Fair Game
Buy Now
Tom Connolly’s photographic collection reveals the beautiful truth behind grassroots football.
DESCRIPTION
For anyone who craves fairness in life and wants fairness in sport, modern elite football offers a confusing, love-hate relationship, one which sent Tom Connolly in search of the game he had fallen in love with as a boy. Connolly’s journey into non-league football unearthed something bigger than sport. The result is a collection of stunning photographs recording the lives lived on the perimeter of the pitch.
Football fans have always been fair game for vilification and stereotyping. This book is about the human beings to be found in the beautiful game. Telling its story through a collection of remarkable black-and-white and colour photos of the people who make the game what it is, Fair Game reminds us that in community-minded non-league football clubs, the heart and soul of sport is alive and well, against all the odds and despite those running and owning the upper reaches of the game.
“I saw my first match at the age of 4, at the oasis of cheeky repartee that was Millwall’s The Den. I first went to Highbury when I was six, when Arsenal were crap. I have been a fanatical supporter of the club ever since, through good times and bad, through my own bad behaviour and good, and they will always be my team. But to find the magical feeling I used to get from going there with my dad, I had to search elsewhere. This book of photographs is the story of that search.”
WHAT THEY SAY
“This book is very timely. The world is moving, through choice and circumstance, away from big corporate to the ’local’ and this is perfect. Going local does not mean your world is shrinking. It’s the opposite. And this book is testament to that.” – Michael Donald, John Kobal Photographic Award
LITERARY AGENT
For literary enquiries contact Becky Thomas at The Lewinsohn Literary Agency
FILM & TV AGENT
For film and tv enquiries contact Rochelle Stevens at Rochelle Stevens & Co.