Hugging Strangers
Hugging Strangers What is it like to follow one of English football's perennial non-achievers? It speaks to all who love the game but are lumbered - by way of family, geography or plain bad luck -…
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Hugging Strangers
What is it like to follow one of English football's perennial non-achievers? It speaks to all who love the game but are lumbered - by way of family, geography or plain bad luck - with a team whose glory days are few and far between. Hugging Strangers is a celebration of what it means to support your club through thick and thin.
In the 55 years that followed, the Blues kept either survival or promotion for the final fixture on a further 12 occasions. At the end of the 1963/64 season Birmingham City stayed in the first division by winning on the last day of the campaign. Stir in nine relegations, eight promotions, along with play-off failures and embarrassing exits from cup competitions and you'll have an idea of what it means to be a Blues fan.
But you don't have to be a Birmingham fan to enjoy this book. This light-hearted collection of tales from a lifelong, hopeless football addict