Barca: A People's Passion

(Paperback, 3rd Revised edition)

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The story of FC Barcelona, written by the author of the internationally acclaimed Hand of God: The Life of Diego Maradona and updated with a new preface 'Burns examination of the clubs fates and fortunes always goes well beyond the game itself Burns is a brilliant journalist Unmissable' Total Football 'Anyone who really wants to know Barcelona should read Burns. A cracker part sports book, part travelogue' Daily Mirror Bara is ms que un club: more than a club. It is a social and political phenomenon, successful on the football field and emblematic of the proud region of Catalonia off it. Founded in 1898, FC Barcelona is today the worlds biggest football club. To unravel the background to the Bara phenomenon, Jimmy Burns has travelled with supporters, talked to people intimately linked to the club, unearthed police files and long-forgotten newspaper reports. Bara: A Peoples Passion is much more than a book about football it is a story of more than a hundred years of obsessive national pride and has now been brought right up to date.

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Burns examination of the clubs fates and fortunes always goes well beyond the game itself Burns is a brilliant journalist Unmissable * Total Football *
Anyone who really wants to know Barcelona should read Burns. A cracker part sports book, part travelogue * Daily Mirror *
Burns strength lies not just in his compulsive, well-told story of the clubs evolution, but his notable grasp of Catalan history Examines the political subtext of what goes on within and around the football club itself * Sunday Times *
FC Catalonia could scarcely have wished for a more thorough but sympathetic chronicler * Sunday Telegraph *

Author Bio

Jimmy Burns is a prize-winning author and journalist. Among his books are The Land that Lost its Heroes (winner of the Somerset Maugham prize for nonfiction), Bara: A People's Passion, Papa Spy, La Roja, Pope of Good Promise, and Cristiano & Leo. He lives in London with his wife and two daughters. www.jimmy-burns.com Twitter: @jimmy_burns