The Groundsman’s Shed

Read an edited version of my review at ESPN’s Soccernet site.

Rating: 1.5 stars 

An optimist sees Jamie Trecker’s first novel, Love and Blood: At the World Cup with the Footballers, Fans, and Freaks as more value for money because it is essentially four different books in one.  The casual reader may find this characteristic confusing at best and frustrating at worst, so this review serves to separate the jumbled and intertwining themes while pointing the reader toward the entertaining and informative sections of this novel.   

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