10 x 10 Lee McGowan on Robin Jenkins's Scottish football novel 'The Thistle and the Grail'

Dr Lee McGowan of the University of the Sunshine Coast in Australia makes a welcome return to the podcast for his 10 x 10 discussion of Robin Jenkins's wonderful football novel 'The Thistle and the Grail'. The 10 x 10 series started off asking for 10 football scholars to speak for 10 minutes each on their favourite football books and it has grown wings. This episode is unmissable. Lee, whose monograph 'Football in Fiction' is published by the Football Collective's own Routledge series, is the world's leading expert in the evocation of the beautiful game in literature. This podcast sees Lee persuasively argue that 'The Thistle and the Grail' should be seen as one of the great Scottish novels of the 20th Century and that football fiction should be seen as a means of exploring deeper social issues. WARNING: Two Celtic fans make the mistake of agreeing that Kenny Dalglish played for Cambuslang Juniors. It was actually Cumbernauld United. Shame on us.