Make Us Dream: The Story of Liverpool's 2013/14 Season

by John Gibbons, Neil Atkinson

Overview

Liverpool's 2013/14 campaign was no ordinary football season. It was the season when everything changed. A year of hope, fantasy, adventure; where joyous reclamation met crushing disappointment and won. A season defined by many individuals, moments, goals and memories. A time when the brand of heroic and daring football - and footballers — that seemed consigned to the sepia toned era of the game's past returned. It was a season when millions of Liverpool supporters dared to dream again.

In Make Us Dream, The Anfield Wrap's Neil Atkinson and John Gibbons take us on a journey through Liverpool's most remarkable Premier League season. In a journey that takes them from Melbourne to Merseyside and all places in between, they detail the explosion of belief from Liverpool's worldwide diaspora.

Demonstrating how Liverpool's season impacted a club and support at a crossroads between its past and football's future, the authors are joined by a series of guest writers, sharing their own impressions and experiences. Between them they create a compelling and passionate narrative of a club, city and supporter base having the most fun in the world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781909245211
Publisher:	DeCoubertin Books
Publication date:	07/28/2014
Edition description:	UK ed.
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.25(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

John Gibbons got his first Liverpool season ticket in 1992 when he was 10 years old. He's had it ever since. He has been to 10 of the 12 cup finals Liverpool have played in this time.

John's best imagined in a suit and carrying a trumpet rushing from A to B as he plays with a variety of bands in Liverpool who request his services. He organises and promotes the popular Dovedale Social music night on Penny Lane.

He has written for The Anfield Wrap about football and music since 2011. When time allows he writes for other Liverpool outlets about music. Neil and John present The Anfield Wrap on CityTalk 105.9 and get a load of people to come into a room and talk football with them. Their book Make Us Dream tells the story of Liverpool's 2013/14 season. @johngibbonsblog.

Neil Atkinson's first game saw Liverpool win 5-0 and Gary Gillespie score a hat-trick. If ever a bar was too high... Since that halycon day in 1986 Neil's gone to school, started and finished a Liverpool fanzine and performed a series of office jobs to varying degrees of success. Currently he is in the process of writing and producing cinema while presenting The Anfield Wrap in its myriad of forms. He is usually to be found in Liverpool city centre. Running late. @knox_harrington

Editorial Reviews

"What leaps off the pages and what Neil Atkinson, John Gibbons and all their many esteemed contributors capture so brilliantly is the feeling of reclamation, the feeling of a city and a football club finding harmony." — Ben Smith, BBC

"The book's a tremendously interesting and entertaining diary of the 2013-14 season" — The Merseysider Magazine

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