| Best football book 22:15 - Feb 3 with 9530 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 11:38 - Feb 4 with 2303 views | sherpajacob |
Des lynam: I should have been at work.
What a,boy he was. |  |
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| Best football book on 11:58 - Feb 4 with 2284 views | Wanderer |
"Fly Fishing with Pele" by J.R Hartley |  | | |
| Best football book on 13:08 - Feb 4 with 2242 views | dickythorpe |
Crazy gang - Wally Downes & Dave Bassett |  | | |
| Best football book on 19:30 - Feb 4 with 2073 views | donkonky |
If you like to reminisce try Gary Nelson 'Left Foot Forward' |  | | |
| Best football book on 19:36 - Feb 4 with 2059 views | phact0rri |
cheers mate! |  |
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| Best football book on 19:40 - Feb 4 with 2050 views | swanjackal |
| Best football book on 19:36 - Feb 4 by phact0rri |
cheers mate! |
Not a problem |  |
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Hypocritically hypocritical ! |
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| Best football book on 22:49 - Feb 4 with 1962 views | owainglyndwr |
| Best football book on 10:17 - Feb 4 by Murph75 |
I'd rather someone shit in my hands and then clap. |
Maybe someone will |  | | |
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| Best football book on 01:07 - Feb 5 with 1898 views | Starsky |
| Best football book on 05:25 - Feb 4 by 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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No point in reading that now... you've pretty much told the story lol |  |
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| Best football book on 03:57 - Feb 5 with 1848 views | JaySun |
Second on "Inverting the Pyramid."
"Soccernomics" by Simon Kuper and Stefan Szymanski https://g.co/kgs/4nawYe
"Brilliant Orange: The Neurotic Genius of Dutch Football" by David Winner. https://g.co/kgs/TVdl0X
I'm in the middle of "My Turn: A Life of Total Football" by Johan Cruyff. It's his perspective mind you, but one of those books that you read over the course of a few weeks. Interesting fellow. |  | | |
| Best football book on 07:48 - Feb 5 with 1813 views | squarebear |
+1 for The Miracle of Castel di Sangro though the ending was a bit hmmph.
Two I highly recommend:
"My father and other working-class football heroes" by Gary Imlach.
A nice easy holiday novel is "The Chairman's Daughter" by Ian Plenderleith. | | | |
| Best football book on 09:20 - Feb 5 with 1777 views | Loyal |
| Best football book on 19:30 - Feb 4 by donkonky |
If you like to reminisce try Gary Nelson 'Left Foot Forward' |
Great book that.
Phil wrote a few as well. |  |
| Nolan sympathiser, clout expert, personal friend of Leigh Dineen, advocate and enforcer of porridge swallows.
The official inventor of the tit w@nk. | | Poll: | Who should be Swansea number 1 |
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| Best football book on 12:25 - Feb 5 with 1730 views | donkonky |
| Best football book on 09:20 - Feb 5 by Loyal |
Great book that.
Phil wrote a few as well. |
Follow up book 'Left foot in the grave' another good read. I'd much rather read about the reality of lower league struggles than the glitz and glam of the big clubs. | | | |
| Best football book on 15:26 - Feb 5 with 1673 views | Loyal |
| Best football book on 12:25 - Feb 5 by donkonky |
Follow up book 'Left foot in the grave' another good read. I'd much rather read about the reality of lower league struggles than the glitz and glam of the big clubs. |
I've read both, not a whole lot of swans books about. | |
| Nolan sympathiser, clout expert, personal friend of Leigh Dineen, advocate and enforcer of porridge swallows.
The official inventor of the tit w@nk. | | Poll: | Who should be Swansea number 1 |
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| Best football book on 16:24 - Feb 5 with 1660 views | FieryJack |
"When Saturday Comes: The Half Decent Football Book" by Tim Bradford.
Funniest book on football out there.
Full of bizarre stories that made me laugh my head off eg. The Charlton goalkeeper, in the late 1800s, who was still on the pitch ten minutes after the game was abandoned due to severe fog, unaware that everyone had left.
He must have thought all the players were camped in the opposition's penalty area!
Shat himself when a caped Police Officer loomed out of the mist to "rescue" him.  |  | | |
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