Football in Sun and Shadow

<p>'Football is a pleasure that hurts'<br><br>This unashamedly emotional history of football is a homage to the romance and drama, spectacle and passion of a 'great pagan mass'. Through stories of superstition, heartbreak, tragedy, luck, heroes and villains, those who lived for football and those who died for it, Eduardo Galeano celebrates the glory of a game that - however much the rich and powerful try to control it - still retains its magic.<br><br>'The Uruguayan whose writing got right to the heart of football ... readers were never in doubt of the warmth of the blood running through his veins' <i>Guardian</i><br><br>'Galeano can run rings round our glamorous football intelligentsia' <i>When Saturday Comes</i><br><br>'Stands out like Pele on a field of second-stringers' <i>New Yorker</i></p>