Football, Inigo Gurruchaga tells us in his journey across some of this country’s lesser known soccer grounds on the trail of a Basque journeyman midfielder, is a game which commences at three o’clock in the afternoon on an English Saturday.
Gurruchaga is a Galactico, as Real Madrid’s star chasing president Florentino Perez would say, in his own right: veteran war correspondent, distinguished father of the house among Spain’s London correspondents and a man who has written with elegance and flair on soccer for decades at international level.
So what on earth possessed him to turn his famous hawk-eye for the telling detail on a subject as esoteric as the ups and downs of a relatively obscure northern football club eternally caught in an existential struggle for survival?
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