Thursday, May 27, 2010

Marina Hyde: How the World Cup exposed England's golden generation of self-regard


Nostalgia being the yearning for a past that one found perfectly grim at the time, I find myself consumed by wistful longing for the rich literary harvest of summer 2006. It was about this time, four years ago, that the press releases began to arrive, heralding a rash of footballer autobiographies which would be published within days of the Golden Generation bringing home the World Cup.

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