# The Bottom Corner

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- Book: [The Bottom Corner](https://www.bookquiver.com/nige-tassell/the-bottom-corner) ([The Bottom Corner.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/nige-tassell/the-bottom-corner.md))
- Authors: [Nige Tassell](https://www.bookquiver.com/nige-tassell)
- Publisher: vintage_digital
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-7354-618-9
- Published: 2016-09-01
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

In these days of oligarch owners, superstar managers and players on sky-high wages, the tide is turning towards the lower reaches of the pyramid as fans search for football with a soul. Plucky underdogs or perennial underachievers, your local non-league team offers hope, drama or at least a Saturday afternoon ritual that's been going for decades. Nige Tassell spends a season in the non-league world. He meets the raffle-ticket seller who wants her ashes scattered in the centre-circle. The envelope salesman who discovered a future England international. The ex-pros still playing with undiluted passion on Sunday mornings. He spends time at clubs looking for promotion to the Football League, clubs just aiming to get eleven players on a pitch every week, and everything in between. One thing unites them: they all inhabit the heartland of the beautiful game. ' The Bottom Corner is a wonderful journey through life in the lower reaches of the football pyramid. A fascinating tale of a very different world of football from that of the overpaid stars of the television age' Barry Davies