Book Review: The Transfer Market: The Inside Stories
The Transfer Market: The Inside Stories by Alan Gernon Published by Pitch Publishing 2018 Liam Rosenior didn’t pull up any trees in the time he spent at Reading Football Club between 2007 and 2010....
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Toshack’s Way: My Journey through Football by John Toshack with Dan Sung Published by De Coubertin Books 2018 Back in the mid-1980s, John Toshack was often held up as the exemplar of the adventurous,...
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Black Boots & Football Pinks by Daniel Gray Published by Bloomsbury 2018 Daniel Gray’s last book, Saturday 3pm was a delight. A paean to the game, the fact that a whole chapter was devoted to the...
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Born to be a Baggie by Dean Walton Published by Amberley Publishing 2016 What does it mean to be a football fan? The question is perhaps best answered in pictures, rather than words, which is what Dean...
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Quiet Genius: Bob Paisley, British Football’s Greatest Manager by Ian Herbert Published by Bloomsbury 2018 Before Liverpool’s 4-3 victory over Crystal Palace at Anfield in mid-January, the Kop’s...
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Roy Bentley’s Stationary Club by Roger Titford Published by Further Thought 2018 In his seminal volume, The Football Grounds of England Wales published in the late 1980s, Simon Inglis described Reading...
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The Mixer by Michael Cox Published by Harper Collins 2017 Rarely does a day pass when someone in my twitter feed is seen to proclaim ‘football didn’t start in 1992 you know’ and the phrase ‘since the...
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One Football, No Nets by Justin Walley Published by Bennion Kearny 2017 As a study in dynamism and making things happen, Justin Walley’s One Football, No Nets is a fascinating example of ‘where there’s...
View ArticleBook Review: Ticket to the Moon
Ticket to the Moon by Richard Sydenham Published by De Coubertin Books 2018 On May 26th 1982, Aston Villa, the club I’ve supported since my football awakening during Italia ’90, won the actual European...
View ArticleBook Review: Angels with Dirty Faces
Angels with Dirty Faces by Jonathan Wilson Published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson 2016 Few footballing countries can be as fascinating as Argentina. Rich success has been accompanied by ignominious...
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