A Season On The Med
A Season on the Med: Riviera Football in Italy and France (With a Trip to Athens for Stan) is a writer's mission to explore football on the Italian and French Rivieras. How is it different to football elsewhere? And what do our heroes really mean to us? Alex Wade, a QPR and Stan Bowles devotee, finds out.
Footy on the Med’s own Alex Wade has released his fifth book which is the inspiration to our podcast. His first book, Wrecking Machine, was a Sunday Times Sports Book of the Week. Wade went on to write two acclaimed books on surfing, and a novel, Flack's Last Shift. In A Season on the Med he returns to his first love, football, but he doesn't just chronicle his experience of going to games along the French and Italian Rivieras. Instead, Wade, a lawyer as well as a writer and journalist, probes the nature and meaning of hero-worship.