Presents a collection of English, Scottish, Welsh and Irish writers who explore the change that the break-up demands in their own nation, and discusses its impact upon the whole.
Mark Perryman is a writer and regular media commentator on Englishness and football, and a research fellow in sport and leisure culture at the University of Brighton. He is convenor of the LondonEnglandFans supporters' group, co-founder of Philosophy Football and author of a number of books, including Ingerland: Travels with a Football Nation and (as editor) Imagined Nation: England after Britain.