Brilliant Orange: The Neurotic Genius of Dutch FootballA&C Black, 2012 M06 4 - 288 pages The Netherlands has been one of the world's most distinctive and sophisticated football cultures. From the birth of Total Football in the sixties, through two decades of World Cup near misses to the exiles who remade clubs like AC Milan, Barcelona, Arsenal and Chelsea in their own image, the Dutch have often been dazzlingly original and influential. The elements of their style (exquisite skills, adventurous attacking tactics, a unique blend of individual creativity and teamwork, weird patterns of self-destruction) reflect and embody the country's culture and history. This book lays bare the elegant, fractured soul of the Dutch Masters and the culture that spawned them by exploring and analysing its key ideas, institutions, personalities and history in the context of wider Dutch society. |
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totality | |
take an aspirin | |
curves | |
football is not | |
the eleventh commandment | |
the snake | |
heres johnny | |
death wish | |
a short interview about killing | |
the boys from paramaribo | |
frank patrick frank jaap patrick paul and gyuri | |
finally | |
acknowledgements | |
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