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Authors@Google: Alan Black

2008-10-31T21:29:49Z

Alan Black visits Google's San Francisco, CA office to discuss his book "Kick the Balls." This event took place on July 30, 2008, as part of the Authors@Google series.

When Alan Black was a child growing up in Glasgow, Scotland, soccer—or what he calledfitba'—was the be all and end all. His experience was not the little league, boys-of-summer stuff of modern America. For him, it was life and death. Now middleaged and living in California, Alan finds himself coaching a team of eight-year-olds in his beloved sport—and nothing is going right.

For a start, the kids are no good at soccer. Secondly, they're pampered. Born and bred on the sport, Black's hardscrabble Scottish upbringing consisted of playing tough and victory at all costs. Needless to say, his coaching methods are a far cry from the "winning isn't everything" mentality his little leaguers have been reared with; and players and parents alike are shocked as Black attempts to transform the losing team through drills and bombast. Alone at night, watching evangelicals on TV, Black finds himself searching for some truth in the culture he finds so bizarre. And it's with the Tigers that he feels most out of sync—faced with a mix of soft suburban children, a raft of overprotective parents, and an Iranian co-coach called Ali. Told with Black's uproarious Scottish sensibility, Kick the Balls follows the abrasive, irreverent, and hilarious coach as he contends with a team that winds up with a zero-win record.

Both a celebration of his own tough childhood and an account of one man's navigation of an alien culture, Kick the Balls will delight fans of well-told, laugh-out-loud memoirs.

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Before Glasgow East: Gordon Brown in Israel Warns Tehran

2008-10-29T09:39:19Z

Ahead of Glasgow East..Afshin Rattansi in Tehran looks at Gordon Brown's threats to use force against Iran, as he faces a byelection in a constituency where life expectancy is lower than in Gaza, after eleven years of a Labour government.

http://www.economist.com/world/britain/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11792879

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CAIR-Chicago Director Repudiates Glasgow Airport Attack

2008-10-30T21:31:10Z

CAIR-Chicago Executive Director Ahmed Rehab repudiates the recent attack on an airport in Glasgow.

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Aussie Tolerance

2008-10-25T15:30:57Z

A nation of tolerant people is unhappy with their government's treatment of a potential terror suspect.

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Nedumentary, 2001. Part 2 (Beware of imitations)

2008-11-23T10:52:13Z

The original spoof documentary on the street monkey menace now commonly referred to as neds or chavs.

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Nedumentary, 2001. Part 3 (Beware of imitations)

2008-11-23T10:52:13Z

The original spoof documentary on the street monkey menace now commonly referred to as neds or chavs.

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Nedumentary, 2001. Part 1 (Beware of imitations)

2008-11-23T10:52:13Z

The original spoof documentary on the street monkey menace now commonly referred to as neds or chavs.

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So Incompetent as to be Almost Laughable

2008-10-15T15:31:26Z

Former Scotland Yard Detective John O'Connor talking about the Britain bomb plots on CNN. July 2, 2007.

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Rose Gentle Time To Go Demo 23 Sept 2006

2008-10-20T21:29:53Z

http://www.mfaw.org.uk
Rose Gentle, mother of Gordon Gentle killed in Iraq June 2004 speaks at Time To Go Demonstration

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