Harcourt, Inc.
Available: 09/15/07
5.31 x 8 · 288 pages
978-0-15-603098-4 CDN $15.95 · pb

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Love and Blood

At the World Cup with the Footballers, Fans, and Freaks

Jamie Trecker

Hunter S. Thompson goes to the cup! Jamie Trecker, Fox Sports soccer commentator, blends reportage, sports writing, beer reviews and gossip to capture the absurdity and underbelly of the world’s largest sporting event. From the restaurants, trains, drunk tanks and press boxes of the FIFA World Cup 2006 in Germany, his irreverant approach to what happened on the pitch and behind the scenes makes this an entertaining narrative long past the final game.

Jamie Trecker (Chicago) is a 20-year veteran of newspaper and magazine journalism. Read his World Cup blog http://blogs.foxsports.com/jamietrecker/.