Who ate all the squid?
I recently finished reading this book and I have to say that I thoroughly enjoyed it. It looks at Ian Porterfield's ill-fated first season at Busan I'Cons (later renamed as Busan I'Park). The action is set in the 2003 season, which was a couple of seasons before I went to Seoul and followed FC Seoul in what was only the second season of FC Seoul. At the time the book was written FC Seoul were still plying their trade as Anyang Cheetahs, although they move to Seoul at the end of the book. The book is really interesting in that it is written from a 2020 perspective, but looking back at that time in the early 21st Century before globalisation really hit Korea. As well as football one of the themes is how Korean society has changed since then and how difficult it was for the foreign contingent to settle in Busan at the time. Although the profile picture for this blog shows me outside the Seoul World Cup stadium with an FC Seoul shirt on and tickets for the 2007 Cup Final I must...