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The Final Whistle |
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| Author : Hillery, Martyn | |
| ISBN : 9786162221392 | |
| Category : Humor | |
| Pages : 409 | |
| Price: $4.99 | |
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| Set in a future we can all feel now, the ‘beautiful
game’ of football is beginning to show the effects of the fifty year
reign of abuse it has been subjected to. The Final Whistle allows us two
contemporary and thought provoking perspectives of what was once no
more than a recreational game that brought communities together every
Saturday afternoon. The up-close view chronicles the internal conflicts
of a football club facing imminent collapse and the desperate ‘Billion
Dollar Man’ gamble Burt Reece, the manager, takes to save his job and
reputation. But the bigger threat to the whole ’football religion’ lurks
in the world of entertainment technology. As VR or Virtual Reality
makes way for Total immersion (Ti), the first signs of an real
alternative to an afternoon on the terraces begin to appear. TV pundits
and journalists see the potential feeding ground as football’s supremacy
over the sports entertainment industry is challenged by the computer
gaming industry. Media speculation raises the stakes by creating a
frenzy of conjecture and doom laden predictions. The millions of once
unshakable fans react by taking a new look at what used to be their
beautiful game. Others take a deeper view of the cancerous effects
inflicted upon a society that has suffered with the football disease for
over fifty years. |
 | The Final Whistle ISBN : 9786162221392 Category : Humor Pages : 409 Price from : 4.99 US$ (ebook) 
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