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Why Juan Villoro is the best football writer you've never heard of

Juan Villoro, Mexico’s foremost man of letters, captures the beautiful game to perfection

28 May 2016

9:00 AM

28 May 2016

9:00 AM

God is Round: Tackling the Giants, Villains, Triumphs and Scandals of the World’s Favourite Game Juan Villoro, translated by Thomas Bunstead

Restless Books, pp.240, £12.99, ISBN: 9781632060587

Football, unlike cricket, has for the most part been ill served by its writers. For every Brian Glanville and Ian Hamilton (the latter having employed his critical authority to become a first-rate reader of the game), the purveyors of hackneyed analysis are legion. In recent years there has been a propensity to celebrate tactics and formation (i.e.

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