| Best football book 22:15 - Feb 3 with 9426 views | Bournedore |
Looking for some holiday reading inspiration. What's the best football book you've read - fiction, fact or autobiography....any recommendations? |  | | |  |
| Best football book on 22:21 - Feb 3 with 7976 views | pencoedjack |
I asked the same question in November and was recommended Mark Wards autobiography from right wing to D wing ( or something similar)
Enjoyed it 👠[Post edited 3 Feb 2017 22:21]
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| Best football book on 22:28 - Feb 3 with 7954 views | monmouth |
The Damned United or Fever Pitch if you haven't read them. If you go back to the 70s, My favourite year edited by Nick Hornby made me laugh and reminisce. Chapter on the Tosh Swans in there too and available for pennies on amazon. |  |
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| Best football book on 22:29 - Feb 3 with 7954 views | lifelong |
I enjoyed the Paul McGrath autobiography "Back from the brink." |  | | |
| Best football book on 22:31 - Feb 3 with 7941 views | NeathJack |
I'd agree with Fever Pitch. |  | | |
| Best football book on 23:18 - Feb 3 with 7879 views | sherpajacob |
| Best football book on 22:28 - Feb 3 by monmouth |
The Damned United or Fever Pitch if you haven't read them. If you go back to the 70s, My favourite year edited by Nick Hornby made me laugh and reminisce. Chapter on the Tosh Swans in there too and available for pennies on amazon. |
My favourite year is an excellent read.
Most autobiographies tend to be pretty crap.
A life too short about Robert enke is essential reading alongside cricketer Marcus trescothicks book. |  |
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| Best football book on 23:36 - Feb 3 with 7860 views | owainglyndwr |
Hunting the hooligans ...... police v Zulu
And
Running with the firm .........police v millwall
2 different undercover books |  | | |
| Best football book on 23:37 - Feb 3 with 7857 views | Murph75 |
| Best football book on 23:36 - Feb 3 by owainglyndwr |
Hunting the hooligans ...... police v Zulu
And
Running with the firm .........police v millwall
2 different undercover books |
Why would you read shit like that? Are your eyes not attached to your brain? |  | | |
| Best football book on 00:07 - Feb 4 with 7825 views | TNT |
| Best football book on 23:37 - Feb 3 by Murph75 |
Why would you read shit like that? Are your eyes not attached to your brain? |
Not my cup of tea, but for a sociologist interested in social behaviour / society, maybe. |  |
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| Best football book on 00:21 - Feb 4 with 7796 views | nyc_swans |
my 2 favorites are:
Jonathan Wilson's Inverting the Pyramid is a great book which focuses primarily on the evolution of tactics.
Among the Thugs by Bill Buford is a good read on hooligans. Very well written from first hand accounts. |  | | |
| Best football book on 00:27 - Feb 4 with 7787 views | Professor |
| Best football book on 22:28 - Feb 3 by monmouth |
The Damned United or Fever Pitch if you haven't read them. If you go back to the 70s, My favourite year edited by Nick Hornby made me laugh and reminisce. Chapter on the Tosh Swans in there too and available for pennies on amazon. |
Both excellent choices as is My Favourite Year. If you get on with the Damned United th n David Peace's other football novel Red or Dead is worth a punt- a sort of flip side to the Damned Unit s about Bill Shankly. It has a very idiosyncratic structure.
Pete Davies- all played out. A book about England in Italia 90 is a good read if still available. I also found Morbo! And Tor! The history of Spanish and German football interesting reads. Morbo is probably the better bet | | | |
| Best football book on 00:30 - Feb 4 with 7785 views | TNT |
'The Swansea City Story', by Brinley E. Matthews
Still got my copy which I bought from the club shop in William Street in '76, took it to the game (Div 4) and Alan Curtis came over to The North Bank pitchside wall and signed it. One of my treasured possessions. Little did I know of the unwritten rollercoaster ride chapters ahead! | |
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| Best football book on 00:49 - Feb 4 with 7762 views | Gowerjack |
Football for Dummies by B.Bradley. |  |
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| Best football book on 01:20 - Feb 4 with 7741 views | Jack_Meoff |
| Best football book on 00:21 - Feb 4 by nyc_swans |
my 2 favorites are:
Jonathan Wilson's Inverting the Pyramid is a great book which focuses primarily on the evolution of tactics.
Among the Thugs by Bill Buford is a good read on hooligans. Very well written from first hand accounts. |
Blimey, didn't know amongst his drumming with Yes he was able to combine investigative journalism. And with the risk of broken limbs and all... |  |
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| Best football book on 02:20 - Feb 4 with 7721 views | jruss1 |
'Morbo' the history of Spanish football football by Phil Ball.
And as mentioned, Jonathan Wilson's book on tactics and how they evolved is fantasic. Esp the chapters focusing on the early stages of football. | | | |
| Best football book on 04:16 - Feb 4 with 7691 views | phact0rri |
| Best football book on 22:28 - Feb 3 by monmouth |
The Damned United or Fever Pitch if you haven't read them. If you go back to the 70s, My favourite year edited by Nick Hornby made me laugh and reminisce. Chapter on the Tosh Swans in there too and available for pennies on amazon. |
man I really want to read Fever Pitch. I enjoyed High Fidelity novel quite a bit, but finding it in the US is rather a tough ask I think. |  |
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| Best football book on 05:25 - Feb 4 with 7666 views | NOTRAC |
The Jimmy Seed story..autobiography written in the 1950s, still obtainable on e-bay.
True story about a guy who was on the verge of playing for Sunderland in 1916 when war was declared.He was then 18. Fought throughout the war years but was mustard gassed at the end of the First World War.Discarded by Sunderland as a result.Absolutely down and out.Came to non league football in South Wales ,where his team,Mid Rhondda hardly lost a match afterwards and attracted crowds of 20,000.
Spotted by Spurs.Within a year had played and won a cup final.Picked by England.After six years and a leg injury transferre d to Sheffield Wednesday at 28 years old.Sheffield Wednesday hopelessly bottom of the first division.Made captain.Hardly lost a game after.Last day of the season won to save themselves from relegation.Spurs who were comfortably mid table when he left,relegated.Captain for next two years when Sheffield Wednesday won the first division in successive seasons. Went into management at Charlton, who were near the bottom of the Third Division South. First year promoted for the first time in their history.Next year promoted from the second division.Next year runners up in the first division.Remained in the first division for over twenty years.Won Cup Final.Sacked in 1955 after eight games.Charlton relegated that year.
Stand named after him in Charlton.
Well worth a read! [Post edited 4 Feb 2017 5:31]
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| Best football book on 06:59 - Feb 4 with 7644 views | jack247 |
Up Pohnpei is a decent light reading holiday type book. Like a Dave O'Gorman/Danny Wallace type book based on football. As others have said, Fever Pitch is good too.
As for autobiographies, I found the Perry Groves one pretty good and Paul Lakes is brilliant.
Secret footballer is good for a while but it gets samey quite quickly.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Up-Pohnpei-ultimate-football-underdogs/dp/1846685028 | | | |
| Best football book on 08:11 - Feb 4 with 7603 views | DafyddHuw |
The Damned United - stand out football book.
Fever Pitch would be OK, but Nick Hornby's a bit of a paish. |  | | |
| Best football book on 08:36 - Feb 4 with 7574 views | owainglyndwr |
| Best football book on 23:37 - Feb 3 by Murph75 |
Why would you read shit like that? Are your eyes not attached to your brain? |
Cheaky Ph@k
These are not football hooligans accounts, but books of undercover police.
Obviously you have not read them [Post edited 4 Feb 2017 8:56]
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| Best football book on 09:11 - Feb 4 with 7542 views | swanjackal |
| Best football book on 04:16 - Feb 4 by phact0rri |
man I really want to read Fever Pitch. I enjoyed High Fidelity novel quite a bit, but finding it in the US is rather a tough ask I think. |
http://english4success.ru/Upload/books/1840.pdf
You can download the pdf and read on phone or tablet. |  |
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| Best football book on 09:15 - Feb 4 with 7533 views | londonlisa2001 |
Arrivederci Swansea is very good. It's the biography of Giorgio Chinaglia and how he went from the Swans to become a superstar with Lazio and then the Cosmos. It's written by Mario Risoli.
Would be of interest to our US fans as well, as it's good about the glory years of the NY Cosmos. | | | |
| Best football book on 10:17 - Feb 4 with 7495 views | Murph75 |
| Best football book on 08:36 - Feb 4 by owainglyndwr |
Cheaky Ph@k
These are not football hooligans accounts, but books of undercover police.
Obviously you have not read them [Post edited 4 Feb 2017 8:56]
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I'd rather someone shit in my hands and then clap. | | | |
| Best football book on 11:18 - Feb 4 with 7454 views | DafyddHuw |
| Best football book on 04:16 - Feb 4 by phact0rri |
man I really want to read Fever Pitch. I enjoyed High Fidelity novel quite a bit, but finding it in the US is rather a tough ask I think. |
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| Best football book on 11:19 - Feb 4 with 7451 views | swanjackal |
| Best football book on 11:18 - Feb 4 by DafyddHuw |
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