’Quite honestly the best book I’ve ever read about football.’ – Irvine Welsh
You can change your house, your car, your political affiliations and even your partner, but your football team is one of life’s constants, right? But are the divides between football’s biggest rivals – Man City and Man Utd, Everton and Liverpool, Tottenham and Arsenal, Newcastle and Sunderland, Hearts and Hibs – really too wide to cross? How hard would it be to change sides, to sleep with the enemy and sup Bovril from the devil’s cup?
A lifelong Hibs fan takes on the challenge that TV’s Faking It and Wifeswap were too scared to even contemplate as he tries to follow his team’s hated rivals Hearts for an entire season. With gritty realism and riveting detail, Aidan Smith demonstrates the importance of loyalty in being a fan. Going undercover, he swaps his colours, drinks in rivals’ pubs and even sings their songs, trying to get under the skin of the opposition.
Aidan Smith has lived in Edinburgh all his life. He chose Hibs over Hearts as a boy because the route to the latter’s ground was across a building site and he used to hate getting mud on his bell-bottoms. A journalist since leaving school, he even surprises himself at how many times he can contrive a mention of Hibs in serious-minded articles about really important stuff.
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