Inshallah United: A story of faith and football (ePub edition)

Synopsis

Longlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Awards 2023 Nooruddean Choudry was born in 1979 — the year Margaret Thatcher became Prime Minister, Sid Vicious died of a heroin overdose, Ayatollah Khomeini overthrew the last Shah of Iran, and Tim Martin opened his first Wetherspoons. Also that year, a local football club lost the Cup Final to Arsenal courtesy of a man named Sunderland. That club would become an all-consuming obsession for young Nooruddean, who would one day become a small brown man and, vitally, also a Red. Inshallah United is the story of the first British-born son of a Pakistani family living in England’s second city. And geography is important, because if it wasn't for his mum and dad settling in Manchester rather than anywhere else in the world, so much of what makes up Nooruddean's identity could have been so different. As it was, he grew up as a Muslim, Manchester United supporting, Morrissey-loving, Maggie-hating, working-class Manc. Inshallah United is about growing up as a strictly halal Stretford Ender; a devout Muslim and diehard Red. It’s about praying five times a day that United would sign Alan Shearer and knock the Scousers off their perch. And it’s a deeply personal account of life as a Muslim Asian Mancunian kid in the late 80s and 90s, bookmarked by the most successful period in Manchester United's history.

Copyright:

2023

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Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9780008522247

Related ISBNs:

9780008522230, 9780008522261, 9780008522254, 9780008632403, 9780008632410, 9780008632427

Publisher:

HarperCollins Publishers

Date of Addition:

05/02/24

Copyrighted By:

Getty, Nooruddean Choudry

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

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No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Sports, Biographies and Memoirs, Religion and Spirituality, Humor

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Bookshare Staff

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