Matt W
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I love a football biographies and reading anything on football really
I thought a thread on the subject might be useful, somewhere to share thoughts on books on football new or old.
I've just finished The Romford Pele: It's only Ray Parlour's authobiography - really emjoyed this, and it is one of those books which spoke to me with Ray's voice. He comes across as a real last of the generation type player to span the old English ways into the more cosmopolitan premier league.
Some favourites;
Left Foot Forward by Garry Nelson
Among the Thugs by Bill Buford
A Season with Verona by Tim Parks
Reading recommendations
My Father and Other Working-class Football Heroes by Gary Imlach @MJB
Inverting the Pyramid by Jonathan Wilson @unification
Taking No Prisoners: The Legend of Frank Barson, Football's Hardest Man @Colin B
Steak Diana Ross by Dave McVay @Surreal Madrid
The Miracle of Castro di Sangro by Joe McGinniss @Apreski
A Strange kind of Glory by Eamon Dunphy @swolley
Ajax, The Dutch, The War: Football in Europe during the Second World War' by Simon Kuper @Marked Ox
Football Against the Enemy' and 'Why England Lose: and Other Curious Phenomena Explained' by Simon Kuper @tonyw
Where's Your Caravan?: My Life on Football's B-roads by Chris Hargreaves @bicesterox
I thought a thread on the subject might be useful, somewhere to share thoughts on books on football new or old.
I've just finished The Romford Pele: It's only Ray Parlour's authobiography - really emjoyed this, and it is one of those books which spoke to me with Ray's voice. He comes across as a real last of the generation type player to span the old English ways into the more cosmopolitan premier league.
Some favourites;
Left Foot Forward by Garry Nelson
Among the Thugs by Bill Buford
A Season with Verona by Tim Parks
Reading recommendations
My Father and Other Working-class Football Heroes by Gary Imlach @MJB
Inverting the Pyramid by Jonathan Wilson @unification
Taking No Prisoners: The Legend of Frank Barson, Football's Hardest Man @Colin B
Steak Diana Ross by Dave McVay @Surreal Madrid
The Miracle of Castro di Sangro by Joe McGinniss @Apreski
A Strange kind of Glory by Eamon Dunphy @swolley
Ajax, The Dutch, The War: Football in Europe during the Second World War' by Simon Kuper @Marked Ox
Football Against the Enemy' and 'Why England Lose: and Other Curious Phenomena Explained' by Simon Kuper @tonyw
Where's Your Caravan?: My Life on Football's B-roads by Chris Hargreaves @bicesterox
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