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Across The Great Divide, Paperback / softback Book

Across The Great Divide Paperback / softback

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Dundee. To football fans, it has been the subject of great curiosity for as long as the game has been played professionally.

How does a relatively small and economically challenged city manage to sustain two senior clubs which, perversely, play across the road from one another? And why has this rivalry not suffered the scourge of sectarianism which has blighted football elsewhere in Scotland?

When Dundee United reached the semi-final of the 1983-84 European Cup it meant that, with the exception of Glasgow, Dundee was the only British city to have provided two semi-finalists in that great competition.

Since then Dundee United have gone on to reach a UEFA Cup final and to win the Scottish Cup.

For Dundee FC, things have been slightly different. There are many fans with long enough memories to recall their glory days, and the silence of their suffering has been punctuated only by boardroom upheaval and the threat of closure.

It is only recently that the club's fortunes have taken an upturn, with an influx of exciting, tenacious foreigners.

Things are changing. The economic, cultural and academic life of the City of Dundee has flourished in recent years. Meanwhile, as revolution sweeps the international footballing world, the scales of success - which determine the balance of soccer power on Tayside - are showing faltering signs of movement.

The Jim McLean era has ended, but will Dundee's Italian risorgimento succeed?

Should there be only one team? First published in 1984, Across the Great Divide has been revised to update the historical perspective on professional football in the City of Discovery.

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