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Post by Deleted on Jun 8, 2015 9:45:21 GMT 1
All three of Ronald Reng's books are really good. The Keeper of Dreams abut Lars Leese is fantastic. Matchdays about Heinz Hoher is also really good. That's only just out in hardback so will be available in most book shops.
All Played Out about England in Italia 90 is great too. Pirlo's autobiography is good. The anecdotes about Gattuso had me in stitches.
Pep Confidential is worth a read about his first season at Bayern.
A Season with Verona by Tim Parks too.
Also any by Jonathan Wilson are worth reading - Behind the Curtain about football in Eastern Europe, Inverting the Pyramid, The Outsider about goalkeepers are all good.
The book about Barca and Real by Sid Lowe is also very readable (can't remember the name off the top of my head).
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Post by monkbar on Jun 8, 2015 10:05:35 GMT 1
Terry Yoraths AB is terrible. Aside from the time he spent in Beirut it's boring as hell.
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Post by araucaria on Jun 8, 2015 10:37:14 GMT 1
The Far Corner by Harry Pearson, from twenty years ago, mainly about non league football in the north east. One review said it lacks the poetic style of Fever Pitch but is much funnier.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 8, 2015 10:59:51 GMT 1
Danish Dynamite by Lars Erikson and Rob Smyth is brilliant. About the 84-86 Danish Euro and World Cup sides. Olsen, Laudrup, Elkjaer. Lerby, Jesper Olsen. Great book.
Looks at the qualification and tournaments as well as puts it into historical / social context. And Denmark had arguably the best kits there has ever been. The HUmmel ones were phenomenal.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 8, 2015 11:51:44 GMT 1
Cheers, Biffy! Still plenty of copies left, with Father's Day looming large ... Have to also add that Jim Brown's 'HUDDERSFIELD TOWN CHAMPIONS OF ENGLAND 1923-26' is a great read. Not looked at the Esquire list, but I'm guessing that 'THE DAMNED UNITED' will be on there too ... Indeed, you have just talked me into ordering one for my Dad! - JT Posted.
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Post by morrisraspass on Jun 8, 2015 12:32:41 GMT 1
Can anyone recommend any lower league player or manager autobiographies? I really enjoyed The Smell of Football about former Birmingham and Blackburn Defender Mick Rathbone who managed Halifax for a bit before becoming a physio and hitting the big time with Everton. Really interesting on the role of confidence in players and their performances - an eye opener for fans who should think about cutting some of their team some slack!
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Post by morrisraspass on Jun 8, 2015 12:44:01 GMT 1
Out of that list I thought Full Time by Tony Cascarino was brilliant (boy he had some mental demons!), and The Miracle of Castel di Sangro, which is a fabulous page-turner. I've also just finished a really funny and touching book called Nearly Reach the Sky: A farewell to Upton Park by Brian Williams, which attempts the Fever Pitch thing of appealing to football fans beyond the team it focusses on. So it's more about being a football supporter than a West Ham fan, and is full of the funny, happy, sad and poignant things we'd all recognise from 50 years of following a team (that's 50 years for him, not me - I ain't that old). Lovely stuff.
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Post by Christ in Shades (art) on Jun 8, 2015 13:22:38 GMT 1
Believe in the Sign by Mark Hodkinson....anyone who grew up in the 1970's in the North of England will be able to relate to it, following a down at the heel working class northern club, in this case Rochdale, its funny, heart warming and a real good read. You certainly won't regret it.
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Post by pieeater on Jun 8, 2015 13:26:19 GMT 1
Can anyone recommend any lower league player or manager autobiographies? The Garry Nelson ones are decent - "Left Foot Forward" and "Left Foot In The Grave". There's one about Millwall that's meant to be good, but I've not got round to reading it yet - "Family: Life, Death and Football" by Michael Calvin (he also wrote one I have read called "Nowhere Men", about scouting, statistics, moneyball, etc. and it's excellent). Nowhere Men is brilliant, the best football book I have read in years.
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Post by Chips Longhorn on Jun 8, 2015 18:44:52 GMT 1
Can anyone recommend any lower league player or manager autobiographies? Would highly recommend Fred Eyre's books, 'Kicked into Touch' and 'Taking the Mike'. Fred was a lower league journeyman of the 60s / 70s era - turned millionaire businessman. They are very funny indeed but unsure whether they are still available. He had an extended trial at Town in the 60s when Eddie Boot was manager. Steve Eyre's dad
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Post by realmadkid on Jun 8, 2015 21:16:49 GMT 1
Would highly recommend Fred Eyre's books, 'Kicked into Touch' and 'Taking the Mike'. Fred was a lower league journeyman of the 60s / 70s era - turned millionaire businessman. They are very funny indeed but unsure whether they are still available. He had an extended trial at Town in the 60s when Eddie Boot was manager. Steve Eyre's dad Yes, indeed he is.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2015 13:30:14 GMT 1
Busy reading HERBERT CHAPMAN ON FOOTBALL. Fascinating read on the fella who almost single-handedly created modern-day football. LINK
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Post by Marco4 on Jul 1, 2015 14:07:31 GMT 1
Also any by Jonathan Wilson are worth reading - Behind the Curtain about football in Eastern Europe, Inverting the Pyramid, The Outsider about goalkeepers are all good. The book about Barca and Real by Sid Lowe is also very readable (can't remember the name off the top of my head). While I agree about the Reng books, agree with Jonathan Wilson recommendations - his Anatomies of England/Liverpool are both really interesting for a historical bent - particularly the early part of the Liverpool one. Fear and Loathing In La Liga, I believe its called. I'm midway through the (Wilson-affiliated) Blizzard publication's book about Ernest Erbstein, the trainer of Il Grande Torino. Right interesting stuff it is, too.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2015 14:55:39 GMT 1
Marco4 are you suggesting that Liverpool have/has a bent history? I didn't even know that Junior had played for them/it!
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Post by Deleted on Jul 3, 2015 21:39:47 GMT 1
Also any by Jonathan Wilson are worth reading - Behind the Curtain about football in Eastern Europe, Inverting the Pyramid, The Outsider about goalkeepers are all good. The book about Barca and Real by Sid Lowe is also very readable (can't remember the name off the top of my head). While I agree about the Reng books, agree with Jonathan Wilson recommendations - his Anatomies of England/Liverpool are both really interesting for a historical bent - particularly the early part of the Liverpool one. Fear and Loathing In La Liga, I believe its called. I'm midway through the (Wilson-affiliated) Blizzard publication's book about Ernest Erbstein, the trainer of Il Grande Torino. Right interesting stuff it is, too. I've got the Erbstein book. Next one to read! Subscribe to The Blizzard on the pay as much as you want offer. Brilliant deal and publication. Especially for £5!
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Post by Marco4 on Jul 4, 2015 0:22:46 GMT 1
Marco4 are you suggesting that Liverpool have/has a bent history? I didn't even know that Junior had played for them/it!I couldn't possibly comment; though any bent history isn't a patch on the shenanigans of Henry Norris at Arsenal.
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Post by Marco4 on Jul 4, 2015 0:23:47 GMT 1
While I agree about the Reng books, agree with Jonathan Wilson recommendations - his Anatomies of England/Liverpool are both really interesting for a historical bent - particularly the early part of the Liverpool one. Fear and Loathing In La Liga, I believe its called. I'm midway through the (Wilson-affiliated) Blizzard publication's book about Ernest Erbstein, the trainer of Il Grande Torino. Right interesting stuff it is, too. I've got the Erbstein book. Next one to read! Subscribe to The Blizzard on the pay as much as you want offer. Brilliant deal and publication. Especially for £5! I pay about £7 something for hard copy. It's whatever worked out as £5 + postage when they started. Never failed to get my money's worth.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 4, 2015 9:58:54 GMT 1
Marco4 are you suggesting that Liverpool have/has a bent history? I didn't even know that Junior had played for them/it!I couldn't possibly comment; though any bent history isn't a patch on the shenanigans of Henry Norris at Arsenal. Actually ... they do have some dirty laundry - and it involves an ex-Town player too!! "Frederick "Fred" Pagnam (4 September 1891 – March 1962) was an English footballer and manager. Pagnam was born in Poulton-le-Fylde, Lancashire, and started at Blackpool Wednesday before having spells at Huddersfield Town (though he never played for the club) and Southport Central. He joined Blackpool in 1913 and after a season there moved to Liverpool in 1914. A striker, he scored on his Reds debut, against Chelsea on 10 October 1914 and scored four against Tottenham Hotspur a couple of weeks later; he scored 26 that season and was Liverpool's top scorer. Pagnam's time at Liverpool coincided with a conspiracy by some Liverpool players to rig a match with Manchester United, in order to profit from betting on the result, in what became known as the 1915 British football betting scandal. Pagnam refused to take part in the conspiracy and even threatened to score a goal to ruin the prearranged result; United won 2-0 as agreed, but four Liverpool players and three United players were found guilty of match-fixing by the Football Association, with Pagnam testifying against his team-mates." Not so squeaky clean 'victim' Scousers all the time then, were they?
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Post by 3Pipe on Jul 4, 2015 10:16:46 GMT 1
Them were the days.. when you could change your club and not even have to change your shirt.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 4, 2015 10:18:08 GMT 1
Missing Person by Patrick Modiano (2014 Nobel Prize winner for literature)
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