Saturday, October 28, 2006
Glanville on Target - brief update
Right on cue. Following my review of Brian Glanville's novel Target Man, he has devoted most of his weekly column from the World Soccer website to some recollections of Giorgio Chinaglia, on whom the novel was based.
Well worth a read, if you can cope with the endless typos (the result, as I recently learned, of Glanville's insistence on writing up his columns on an old-fashioned typewriter, fingerslips and all, before faxing them to base).
Well worth a read, if you can cope with the endless typos (the result, as I recently learned, of Glanville's insistence on writing up his columns on an old-fashioned typewriter, fingerslips and all, before faxing them to base).
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If he writes them on a typewriter and faxes his columns why doesn't the person who retypes them onto the correct system fix the slips?
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: October 28, 2006 at 10:16 AM
: October 28, 2006 at 10:16 AM
...If he writes them on a typewriter and faxes his columns why doesn't the person who retypes them onto the correct system fix the slips?...
Good question...
It was another English journo at the WC who told me about it, not Glanville (although I did get to meet him over there, to my great delight!). I think he said that the person re-typing it wasn't too familiar with football, so you ended up getting foreign names changed unrecognizably and so forth.
By the way, is that you Trent?
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Good question...
It was another English journo at the WC who told me about it, not Glanville (although I did get to meet him over there, to my great delight!). I think he said that the person re-typing it wasn't too familiar with football, so you ended up getting foreign names changed unrecognizably and so forth.
By the way, is that you Trent?
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