# The Silence of the Stands

Canonical: https://www.bookquiver.com/daniel-gray/the-silence-of-the-stands

JSON version (same data): https://www.bookquiver.com/daniel-gray/the-silence-of-the-stands.json

![The Silence of the Stands](https://quivercdn.com/covers/bloomsbury/daniel-gray/the-silence-of-the-stands_978-13-9940-406-8-96ca0615.webp?v=2026-11-09%2008%3A28%3A59)

- Authors: [Daniel Gray](https://www.bookquiver.com/daniel-gray)
- Language: en_US
- Published: 2022-11-10
- Genres: History

## Description

LONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023SHORTLISTED FOR THE SUNDAY TIMES SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2023 - FOOTBALL BOOK OF THE YEAR‘Powerful and poignant’ Henry Winter‘Empathetic and poignant … the game’s answer to A Journal of the Plague Year’ Harry Pearson‘The Durham City midfielder wore the resigned look of a man trying to find a jar of harissa in Farmfoods. Up front for Jarrow, a centre-forward darted around frenetically, as if chasing a kite during a hurricane...’When football disappeared in March 2020, writer and broadcaster Daniel Gray used its absence to reflect on everything the game meant to him. That bred a pledge: whenever and wherever fans were allowed to return, he would be there. The Silence of the Stands is the result of that pledge: a joyous travelogue documenting a precarious season, in which behind-closed-doors matches and travel restrictions combined to make trips to Kendal and Workington seem impossibly exotic. Offering a poignant peek at a surreal age and a slab of social history from the two-metre-distanced tea bar queue, this is the moving, heartfelt and surprisingly uplifting story of a unique season that no one wishes to repeat.

## Editions

### The Silence of the Stands

- Publisher: Bloomsbury
- ISBN: 978-13-9940-406-8
- Pages: 176
- Published: 2022-11-10
- Language: en_US