Book Review: Ipswich Town: A History
Ipswich Town: A History by Susan Gardiner Published by Amberley Publishing 2013, £16.99 [T]he past, as we all know, is another country, and the main thing we remember learning about that country is...
View ArticleBook Review: Sport in Capitalist Society: A Short History
Sport in Capitalist Society: A Short History by Tony Collins Published by Routledge 2013, £19.99 [G]od bless Crystal Palace's self-styled ultras, the Holmesdale Fanatics. The irony of proudly...
View ArticleBook Review: Falling for Football
Falling for Football edited by Adam Bushby and Rob MacDonald Published by Ockley Books 2014, £11.99 [F]alling for Football is a highly significant book and not just because of the way it expertly...
View ArticleBook Review: Tor!
Tor! by Uli Hesse Published by WSC Books 2013, £9.49 [A]s a voracious devourer of football history while growing up, I had always been cynical about West Germany’s win over Hungary in the 1954 World...
View ArticleBook Review: The Origins of Wolverhampton Wanderers
The Origins of Wolverhampton Wanderers by Patrick A. Quirke Published by Amberley Publishing 2013, £14.99 [W]olverhampton Wanderers are without question one of England's most storied clubs and with...
View ArticleBook Review: Red or Dead
[D]avid Peace has established himself as one of Britain's most vital novelists of recent times and following on from the success of The Damned United (the film version of which has been reviewed in...
View ArticleBook Review: The Evergreen in Red and White
The Evergreen in Red and White by Steven Kay Published by 1889 Books 2014, £8.99 [W]e have devoted some attention before on this website to a call for a 'great football novel', something to plug a gap...
View ArticleBook Review: Punk Football
Punk Football by Jim Keoghan Published by Pitch Publishing 2014, £12.99 [T]he rise of the supporter ownership model in England has been a slow and drawn out process in recent years and despite the...
View ArticleBook Review: And Gazza Misses the Final
And Gazza Misses the Final by Rob Smyth and Scott Murray Published by Constable 2014, £8.99 [O]ur final regular post of 2013-4 and before a summer break sees us maintain the World Cup theme of recent...
View ArticleBook Review: The Country of Football
The Country of Football edited by Paulo Fontes and Bernardo Buarque de Hollanda Published by by Hurst Publishing 2014, £16.99 [H]aving reviewed David Goldblatt's Futebol Nation in June, here we are...
View ArticleBook Review: Hard Case: The Autobiography of Jimmy Case
Hard Case by Jimmy Case Published by by John Blake Publishing 2014, £18.99 [I]n advance of a salvo posts on the precariousness or otherwise of the managerial hot seat which we shall be running next...
View ArticleBook Review: Roy Keane: The Second Half
Roy Keane: the Second Half by Roy Keane with Roddy Doyle Published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2014, £8.99 I haven’t read the first Roy Keane autobiography co-authored to much fanfare with Eamon...
View ArticleBook Review: The A to Z of Football Hates
The A to Z of Football Hates by Richard C. Foster Published by Amberley Publishing 2014, £11.69 A list will always get people talking and it’s not just online that Tops 10s and A to Zs are endlessly...
View ArticleBook Review: Haircuts and League Cups: The Rise and Fall of Carson Yeung
Haircuts and League Cups: The Rise and Fall of Carson Yeung by Daniel Ivery and Will Giles Published by GHI HK Limited 2014, £20 The career of Carson Yeung, and his troubled reign as Birmingham City...
View ArticleBook Review: From the Back Page to the Front Room
From the Back Page to the Front Room by Roger Domeneghetti Published by Ockley Books 2014, £9.99 Our latest book review features yet another offering from the industrious Ockley Books, an enterprise...
View ArticleBook Review: The Club: Living the Dream at the Bottom of English Football
The Club: Living the Dream at the Bottom of English Football by Simon Akam Published by Newsweek Insights 2014, £1.99 Simon Kuper, author of the outstanding Football Against the Enemy and the deeply...
View ArticleBook Review: Female Football Fans: Community, Identity & Sexism
Female Football Fans: Community, Identity & Sexism by Carrie Dunn Published by Palgrave Macmillan July 2014, £45 Judging a book by its cover, which of course we have all been advised never to do,...
View ArticleBook Review: The Old Firm: Sectarianism, Sport and Society in Scotland
The Old Firm by Bill Murray Published by John Donald 1984 On being asked once about the musical tastes of the Glasgow Rangers squad, Ally McCoist remarked that while he favoured the beat combos of the...
View ArticleBook Review: Scotball
Scotball by Stephen O’Donnell Published by Ringwood Publishing 2014, £9.99 Following on from his impressive debut Paradise Road, reviewed in these pages earlier this month, Stephen O’Donnell’s Scotball...
View ArticleBook Review: Pundit Colouring
Pundit Colouring by Mick Kinlan and Richard Bellis Published by Ockley Books 2015, £6.99 Last week, I was in one of those shops that sell things you don’t really need in the Brooklyn neighbourhood of...
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