The historian and Aldershot Town fan's record of the 2016/17 non-league football season is a bit of an own goal The non-league football club Aldershot Town and the ominous ascension of Donald Trump don't appear to have much in common, yet they happen to be the twin obsessions driving David Kynaston when he decided to keep a diary of the 2016/17 season. This country's most accomplished contemporary historian, Kynaston, born in 1951, is also a lifelong fan of "the Shots" with a memory for games, n...
Shots in the Dark by David Kynaston review - Trump haunts a troubled sporting diary
The Guardian - 17 Aug 2020 09:30
The historian and Aldershot Town fan's record of the 2016/17 non-league football season is a bit of an own goal The non-league football club Aldershot Town and the ominous ascension of Donald Trump don't appear to have much in common, yet they happen to be the twin obsessions driving David Kynaston when he decided to keep a diary of the 2016/17 season. This country's most accomplished contemporary historian, Kynaston, born in 1951, is also a lifelong fan of "the Shots" with a memory for games, n...
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