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Post by admin on May 14, 2005 2:36:36 GMT 1
As a teenager in the Seventies, Glanville showed the same sort of dedication to becoming a football hooligan that he later applied to his training and career as an opera singer. Coming from a middle-class family in Kensington, he was ill-equipped for the role of soccer thug - on his first match outing he turned up in a brown velvet jacket with taramasalata sandwiches. Overcoming such disadvantages, Glanville managed to become accepted by the Cockney Reds, the peripatetic London supporters of Manchester United and aficionados of Saturday afternoon aggro. Beyond a perverse desire to join any club that wouldn't have him, the extremes of character that drove him to study classics and philosophy at Oxford on the one hand and scrap on the terraces on the other are never fully explained. But his determined attempts to assimilate are often as funny as they are bewildering in this engaging and sometimes startlingly frank memoir.
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