Who Ate all the Squid?: Football Adventures in South Korea

Product Description

When a struggling Korean football club wants to transform its fortunes, who does it turn to? A former Chelsea manager and a trio of players with Premier League experience, of course.
Who Ate All the Squid?: Football Adventures in South Korea charts the year Ian Porterfield managed faltering K League giant Busan IPark. The Sunderland FA Cup legend lured three players from English football out to Korea: striker Jamie Cureton, an ex-England youth international who turned down Manchester United; Andy Cooke, a former Burnley and Stoke City forward who started his career building cowsheds; and Jon Olav Hjelde, who bolstered Nottingham Forest after achieving UEFA Champions League heroics with Rosenborg. How will the players cope with South Korea’s unfamiliar culture and language? Can the Brits overcome personal demons, including car crashes, divorces and alcoholism? And does a British football revolution really stand a chance of succeeding in Northeast Asia? The book also casts a humorous glimpse at the world’s game inside South Korea.

About the Author

Devon Rowcliffe is a freelance political commentator and columnist for Loonie Politics. His writing has appeared in
iPolitics, Tyee, Great British Politics, Independent Australia, Hong Kong Free Press and
Straits Times (Singapore). He holds a master’s degree in political science from the University of Toronto.