Whats the best FOOTBALL book you have ever read ?

[Tarpon]

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This

This. This book. This book by David Peace. This book by David Peace called Red or Dead. This book. This.

 

[fcportaloo]

I read this book. I read all the book. The book about Bill Shankly. I read the book about Bill Shankly and Liverpool Football Club. I read this book

 

[Cheshire Cat]

Alan Hudson's Football Year Book 1972

or The Damned United

 

[sams dad]

Floodlit Dreams - How to save a football club by Ian Ridley is a good read.

 

[Postman Pat]

The beautiful game? Searching for the soul of football by David Conn.

 

[thedonkeycentrehalf]

Although not especially a great book best title is Taking Le Tiss as that was what the football genius did to all the football peasants running around him

Frank Worthington's biog "one hump or two" is also a fairly accurate reflection on his playboy lifestyle.

 

[Barry Izbak]

Joey Barton's book is a surprisingly good read

I'll have to take your word for that (not something I am guessing you hear often)

But I would rather read the collected wisdom of Tyson Fury than anything produced in this prats name. The bloke is a disgrace. And the wider football world are thankfully beginning to wise up to this.

 

[Not Andy Naylor]

Joey Barton's book is a surprisingly good read

Because it was ghosted by Michael Calvin.

 

[Ernest]

Because it was ghosted by Michael Calvin.

Better than the CLOWN who ghosted Dick Tight's BOOK, should have got Jeffrey ARCHER to do that

 

[KT17]

This

 

[KT17]

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This is good

One of the stories is that our Robin is on the bench, the opposition's centre back has been getting on everyone's tits, niggly fouls etc. After 70 minutes Friday gets called on from the bench, limbers up, studs checked, runs onto the pitch, goes up to this CB, lamps him, puts him out cold, immediately sent off to a standing ovation. Football gold.

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

This

You say 'this' but from the reviews it seems to be a lot of match report cuttings cobbled together with no real coverage of the really interesting part - his decline post-football, with Reading fan reviewers suggesting this book was an opportunity wasted.

 

[KT17]

You say 'this' but from the reviews it seems to be a lot of match report cuttings cobbled together with no real coverage of the really interesting part - his decline post-football, with Reading fan reviewers suggesting this book was an opportunity wasted.

It's the best we've got on him, sadly.

Unless you know better?

 

[catfish]

The beautiful game? Searching for the soul of football by David Conn.

All of his books are well worth reading.

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

It's the best we've got on him, sadly.

Unless you know better?

His sounds like a fascinating story not done justice by this book seems to be the general opinion of reviewers (barring the gushing 442 cover review)

 

[vegster]

End of thread.. Amazing book...

 

[alfredmizen]

too many - and great thread so I can read some more.

enjoyed this:

anyone read this ?

I've just downloaded steak Diana Ross via kindle , I don't like reading books like. Keith Gillespie though as I find them depressing

 

[alfredmizen]

I just finished that about a month ago. As a baseball fan, I'd have liked more on Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, but that's just me. It's a remarkable feat of research.

Isn't it an amazing coincidence that lou gehrig died of lou gehrigs disease ?

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

What's shocking about that Gillespie book is the cover shot - he would have been 37/38 years old or younger when that photo was taken but his face is so lined.

 

[Gwylan]

End of thread.. Amazing book...

It's by Duncan Hamilton who wrote the book on Harold Larwood - best sporting biography I've read.I'll have to give the Clough one a go.

There are so many good recommendations on this thread