Heart and Soul: Footy Stories By Those Who Played the Game by Matt Zurbo

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Ex library copy with no external stickers or inside stamps or stickers. RFID patch on inside back cover. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Interior and binding are still excellent.

Football is a heart and soul game, AFL Legend Ron Barassi once told Matt Zurbo. Taking that observation as his cue, Zurbo travelled across Australia interviewing players great and good, from the famous to the journeymen. In doing so, Zurbo-himself a veteran of 650 amateur games and counting-has recorded the footy stories of some of the game's characters, from Rene Kink and Graham Cornes to Joe Misiti and Robert 'Bones' McGhie. The result is the players' oral history of footy through seven decades, in their own words.

In Heart and Soul: Footy Stories by Those Who Played the Game, Zurbo has skilfully revived memories of the classic games, the torturous training sessions, and the premiership hijinks, taking us back to smoke-filled social clubs and the suburban fortresses where myths and legends were born. For every marquee name like Barassi, from whom familiar and fantastical tales spill, there is an Ian Paton, Russell Renfrey or a Mark Zanotti-characters whose outsized stories of lives spent chasing a Sherrin never got quite the same airtime as the superstars of the game. Their stories are just as revealing. (BACK COVER)