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Union JockAidan Smith
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Union Jock

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Can a Scotsman ever support the Auld Enemy? Find out in Aidan Smith's brilliantly funny new history of a centuries-old rivalry.July 30, 1966. Bobby Moore is lifting the Jules Rimet trophy, Denis Law is playing golf, and a young boy in Edinburgh is being taught the most important lesson of his life: no matter who England are playing, you support the other lot. If the opposition have a dodgy human rights record, or are cruel to wasps, or can't even be located on a large-format map - too bad. You support the other lot. Forty years on, and Aidan Smith has done a pretty good job of supporting the…

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Editions

5 in Spinefolk
FormatPublisherYearPagesISBN
EditionPenguin Random House2009—9781407065120
EditionPenguin Random House2008—9781407013558
EditionYellow Jersey Press20082729780224080156
EditionPenguin Random House2008—9781407013541
EbookRandom House Publishing Group2008—9781407013503
NonfictionSports & RecreationsSports spectatorsSoccerScotland, foreign relationsEngland, foreign relations, scotlandSoccer fansInternational relations