From the publisher:
One hundred and fifty years after it was first contested, photographer Alan McCredie and writer Daniel Gray spent the 2023/24 football season seeking out the charms of the modern Scottish Cup. Travelling to matches from hamlet to Hampden, they found them in abundance. Blending McCredie's captivating pictures and Gray's lyrical words, Cup Tied is an enchanting celebration of our national game.
The book captures small town teams as their communities are lured by the Cup's everlasting pull. Cup Tied is an elegant voyage among giantkillers and cup runs and weekend plans sparked by the words: 'And that concludes the draw...' In the mould of McCredie and Gray's hugely successful book Snapshot, it is a football documentary in print.
The author:
Daniel Gray is a writer and broadcaster, and also Editor of Nutmeg magazine. He has published a host of critically acclaimed books on football and social history and presents the When Saturday Comes podcast. Daniel has fronted history programmes on television and written for the BBC. His most recent football book, The Silence of the Stands, was shortlisted for Football Book of the Year at the Sunday Times Awards and longlisted for the William Hill Prize.
Alan McCredie has been a freelance photographer for over a decade, working with most major agencies from Scotland and beyond. He has specialised in theatre and television but is perhaps best known for his documentary and travel photography. A member of the Documenting Britain photo collective, he is a Perthshire man lost to Leith. He has been Nutmeg magazine's chief photographer since the magazine began in 2016, and Cup Tied is his 10th book.
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