Ep. 112 – CHRIS ENGLAND - A Conversation With… – INTERVIEW SPECIAL

The Lovejoy Hour

Lovejoy

Society & Culture, Football, Sports

4.6 • 767 Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2019

⏱️ 114 minutes

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Summary

This week Tim Lovejoy talks to playwright, novelist, comedy writer, and football fan, Chris England. Tim and Chris discuss his new book On the Game, his personal experiences with football, why he feels it has changed and why this has happened.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Dear Lovejoy podcast and it is another special.
0:05.2	Today's guest is Chris England.
0:07.2	He's written a book on football called On the Game, 1960 to 2018,
0:11.9	How Football Became What It Is Today.
0:15.2	I have an interesting relationship with football, Mark,
0:17.8	because I've worked in it for quite a long time.
0:19.5	I've always played it.
0:20.5	Well, I don't play it now, but I love watching it. I love playing it, but it's complicated my relationship now. I have
0:25.7	love, and hates, but I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It is, have you read it? I haven't, aren't you? Yes, yes, yes.
0:38.3	And he passed me the book and I read it and I haven't put it, well, I got it and I didn't put it down.
0:41.3	You kept texting me, going seriously, this book is brilliant.
0:45.3	It's smart and witty and it's just a journey through.
0:47.3	It's got such great humour to it.
0:49.3	So all the things that really bug me about football has made me smile in this book.
0:55.5	But, you know, it's, as I say, it's a journey through Chris's life as a football fan,
1:01.8	Alden fan.
1:03.1	So not really football.
1:04.2	Yeah.
1:04.6	Come on now.
1:05.8	The evolution of the game via what's happening on TV and everything else and also via the England
1:11.1	team on World Cup. So, you know, it's good. So we'll be speaking to him all about that. And I'm
1:16.2	always conscious about doing stuff on football because it's, it's what made... It's just, it's like
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