ROBERT MCCRUM

William McCrum, bisabuelo del autor, era un portero irlandés en un fútbol salvaje. En 1891, una época de pesadas pelotas de cuero, barro hasta las rodillas e indisciplina en el juego, se le ocurrió que los penaltis servirian para amansar a unos jugadores insumisos y descontrolados. Futbolistas y aficionados acogieron con espanto la ocurrencia de McCrum, pero el tiempo acabo dandole la razon y el penalti ha terminado ocupando un papel capital en la liturgia futbolistica.En El penalti, Robert McCrum se sirve de la invencion de la pena maxima como excusa para explorar cuestiones mas profundas y tortuosas como las relaciones familiares, los vinculos entre Inglaterra e Irlanda o los traumas y complejos del futbol ingles. Con ironia britanica y muchos datos historicos, el libro tiende un hermoso puente entre el asilvestrado deporte amateur de finales del siglo xix y el multimillonario negocio que conocemos hoy.Robert McCrum utiliza el penalti como una oportunidad para reflexionar, no solo sobre la belleza del futbol, sino tambien sobre su propia historia familiar.The Wall Street JournalSuerte, amor, decepcion; una extraordinaria historia familiar sobre la tirania de clase y las expectativas generacionales.Spectator

John McConnell s list of collaborators includes many household names Boots Faber & Faber Halfords Clarks John Lewis The man behind the Biba logo for which he won the D&AD Silver in 1969 the logo of the National Grid and the covers of a Penguin student textbook series from the early 70s has exerted a quiet influence over British design since the sixties His awards alone speak to his prowess the Prince Philip Designers Prize 2002 and the title of RDI Royal Designer of Industry 1987 among them Part biography part showcase for some of McConnell s most celebrated designs this book gathers McConnell s exclusive redesign for Faber & Faber a revolutionary new approach to book covers from the early 1980s

This work charts the tale of a language that came from nowhere to conquer the world. It is an introduction for both student and general reader alike.

Football in the 1880s was an unruly, rough, and often dangerous game. To curb the state the sport was in, William McCrum proposed a new and drastic sanction. He called it a penalty kick.In 1891, a contentious new measure against an excess of foul play, Rule 13, was proposed to the FA by an amateur goalkeeper from County Armagh. The Irishmans Motion modernised the worlds most popular game. Today in the shootout Rule 13 continues to influence the sport through its astonishing psychological grip on our imaginations.A tale of sportsmanship, chance and obsession, The Penalty Kick explores both the addiction of risk, and a doomed father-son relationship that could have been torn from the pages of a late-Victorian novel, inspired by the edgy, ruthless and egalitarian spirit of Northern Ireland.