The Penalty Kick

The Story of a Gamechanger

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Robert McCrum

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Releases 8 Oct 2024

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‘Football, in the 1880s, was a rough and dangerous game. To address the abhorrent state the sport was in, William McCrum proposed a new and drastic sanction: the penalty kick.’ In 1891, a new measure against an excess of foul play was introduced into football by an amateur goalkeeper from County Armagh. Today Rule 13 has modernised the world’s most popular game – notably, through the shootout – in ways that continue to influence the sport, and have an astonishing psychological grip on our imaginations. A tale of sportsmanship, chance and obsession, The Penalty Kick explores a doomed father-son relationship that could have been torn from the pages of a late-Victorian novel, the addiction of risk and the edgy, ruthless and egalitarian spirit of the people of Northern Ireland.

Author Biography:

Robert McCrum is a writer whose most recent book, Shakespearean, was published to great acclaim in 2021. He is also the author of Wodehouse: A Life (2004) and a classic memoir My Year Off. As editor-in-chief of Faber & Faber, he published Peter Carey, Kazuo Ishiguro, Marilynne Robinson, Lorrie Moore and Milan Kundera, among many others, and was subsequently literary editor of the Observer from 1996–2008.

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October 8th, 2024

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