The classic book about football in the north-east of England, frequently cited as one of the best books on football ever written.

A book in which Wilf Mannion rubs shoulders with The Sunderland Skinhead: recollections of Len Shackleton blight the lives of village shoppers; and the appointment of Kevin Keegan as manager of Newcastle is celebrated by a man in a leather stetson crooning ‘For The Good Times’ to the accompaniment of a midi organ, The Far Corner is a tale of heroism and human frailty, passion and the perils of eating an egg mayonnaise stottie without staining your trousers.