Robert Coles

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Described as a brilliant book by an upcoming guest, Robert Coles, who makes the point that historians tend to neglect sport or condescend to it when they write about it.

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Introduced as the guest's book - 'whose book, George Orwell, English Rebel, is a brilliant study of Orwell as a writer of Englishness'

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Dominic references this book which 'came out last year' and quotes from it about sport being 'a major subject' and 'one of England's great civil cultures' to justify football as a worthy subject for historical study.