Welcome to Hell?: In Search of the Real Turkish Football

John McManus is an anthropologist based at the British Institute at Ankara, where he researches sport and migration in Turkey and the Turkish diaspora. He supports Besiktas and Leicester City. Welcome to Hell? is his first book.

‘McManus’s triumph is to combine thorough research with readability. A fascinating history of Turkish football, and a model for other books of this type’ — Jonathan Wilson

‘A book as rich and complex as the extraordinary worlds of Turkish football it explores’ — David Goldblatt

‘John McManus is one of the very few writers in English who actually knows Turkey. This crucial but poorly understood country may be best interpreted through football – and he is perfectly placed to do it. McManus thinks like a good academic but writes like a good journalist. He captures the Turkish game with love, in all its beauty and darkness. For all the country’s problems, in the midst of its current crisis, this book makes you want to get straight on a plane to catch a match there’ — Simon Kuper, author of Football Against the Enemy