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Book reviews: The hope that kills us: An Anthology of Scottish Football Fiction: Too many own goals for comfort
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The hope that kills us: An Anthology of Scottish Football Fiction,
edited by Adrian Searle Freight, 14.95 pounds
As a last line in the book, it seems almost perverse. "You spelt
my name right, by the way?" asks the narrator of a journalist in
Colin Clark's rather fantastic The Last Man in Scotland Who Doesn't
Like Football, the last story in what is termed an anthology of
Scottish football fiction. The fact it is labelled fiction might give
the compilers of this collection an excuse for one of the most
hideous crimes in Scottish football writing, which is failing to spot
the erroneous ...
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