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We are Brighton: Two Great Years for Brighton and Hove Albion (Pitch) Book
Nick Hornby meets Bill Bryson as Spencer Vignes tells the hilarious tales of his journey through England in his 1969 Morris Minor. His aim - to play tennis on every court he came across between his childhood home of Warnham, West Sussex, and his adult one in the former Yorkshire mining town of Normanton, to a soundtrack of 70's punk and 80's rock. Inspired by the 1971 film 'The Swimmer' starring Burt Lancaster as a businessman on the verge of a nervous breakdown, spending a day swimming through the pools of his wealthy friends and neighbours in suburban Connecticut, the author had no particular route planned, but lets the nets guide him. Each time he spots a court, he stops and challenges the first person he sees to have a knock with him, be it Boris Becker or blind old Mrs Brady on her … read more...
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