Guest bernardblack Posted July 21, 2016 Share Posted July 21, 2016 Excellent input. Just ordered "the neurotic genius of Dutch football"Anyone read it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saigon Raider Posted July 21, 2016 Share Posted July 21, 2016 Read two great ones by Michael Calvin. Living On A Volcano: The secrets of surviving as a football manager was brilliant, great insight into some of the managers around the lower leagues, Sean Dyche comes out of it well and Brendan Rodgers sounds and acts exactly like you imagine he would. Calvin also wrote The Nowhere Men about old-school scouts - it has some interesting bits about Warburton and what was going on at Brentford. Not as good as the other one but still decent. Somebody mentioned it already but A Life Too Short is an amazing book about depression, one of the best sports books I have read. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
highlandcowden Posted July 22, 2016 Share Posted July 22, 2016 On 20/07/2016 at 16:51, Virtual Insanity said: I wanted to love Soccernomics but found it dull as f**k, would be interested in other people's views. Football in Sun and Shadow by Eduardo Galeano is wonderful. It might be a bit too pretentious for some but I loved it. Agreed on both counts As others have said,"the miracle of castel di sangro","a season with Verona","morbo","tor", Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stu Posted July 28, 2016 Share Posted July 28, 2016 On 21/07/2016 at 18:42, Saigon Raider said: Read two great ones by Michael Calvin. Living On A Volcano: The secrets of surviving as a football manager was brilliant, great insight into some of the managers around the lower leagues, Sean Dyche comes out of it well and Brendan Rodgers sounds and acts exactly like you imagine he would. Calvin also wrote The Nowhere Men about old-school scouts - it has some interesting bits about Warburton and what was going on at Brentford. Not as good as the other one but still decent. Somebody mentioned it already but A Life Too Short is an amazing book about depression, one of the best sports books I have read. Picked up the Michael Calvin ones in charity shops while in Edinburgh last week. Bought on the basis of this thread so they better be good Also got Andrew Jennings' one about the nonsense at FIFA. It's the original one that's about 10 years odd so it'll be interesting to see how much he was right about! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Minertaur Posted July 29, 2016 Share Posted July 29, 2016 Got to include 'Black Diamonds and The Blue Brazil' and 'Helicopter Dreams' as 2 good football books. Obviously being a Cowden fan they are relevant to me but I think most lower league fans would enjoy reading them. Especially Helictoper Dreams as I have a paragraph in it Both of course written by Pie and Bovrils Kierkegaard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul-r-cfc Posted July 31, 2016 Share Posted July 31, 2016 Been inspired by this thread and bought 'Dynamo', 'A season with Verona' and 'a life too short'. Also I'll recommend 'hunting grounds' by Gary Sutherland. Guy tries to go through every Scottish ground in a single season (2006/2007). This had me in stitches at times when I was 14 and it still kept me entertained when I reread it recently Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Broomhill Ultra Posted August 2, 2016 Share Posted August 2, 2016 Last football book I read I think.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banana Posted August 3, 2016 Share Posted August 3, 2016 Last football book I read I think.... Damn that cover brings back memories. Also Nappers Golden Goals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobby Skidmarks Posted August 3, 2016 Share Posted August 3, 2016 Fucking hell, Napper McCann. I hated that wee c**t. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oscar P Posted August 3, 2016 Share Posted August 3, 2016 Might not sound too appealing, but Full Time by Tony Cascarino, ghost written by Paul Kimmage, is a brilliant read. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Mantis Posted August 4, 2016 Share Posted August 4, 2016 As mentioned a couple of times: Football Against The Enemy (in fact anything by Simon Kuper). showing my age now but The Glory Game by Hunter Davies (a season with Tottenham) and Only a Game? By Eamonn Dunphy. Also enjoyed The Secret Footballer although a lot of people think he's a journalist, not a footballer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salvo Montalbano Posted August 4, 2016 Share Posted August 4, 2016 Isn't it Dave Kitson? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bully Wee Villa Posted August 4, 2016 Share Posted August 4, 2016 It's Dave Kitson wearing a false moustache I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Mantis Posted August 5, 2016 Share Posted August 5, 2016 13 hours ago, Salvo Montalbano said: Isn't it Dave Kitson? He seems to be the favourite but there's theories about how he's just a journalist using a mixture of different players. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Officer Barbrady Posted August 14, 2016 Share Posted August 14, 2016 No mention of Brilliant Oranje, or Inverting the Pyramid; far superior writes and all-round better works than shite like Soccernomics, which is just a collection of data, telling us how good someone like Stewart Downing is for simply completing a cross....and providing one assist when Liverpool signed him using that very concept. Marcotti/Vialli's Italian Job is thoroughly engrossing; not least Luca's fearless assessments on opponents, and Gab's ever-journalistic probing. Hunter's scud-mag-in-disguise about Barca is cringey at best, hanging around a bunch of young men with his jaw slavering all over the floor. They're good, we get it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savage Henry Posted August 15, 2016 Share Posted August 15, 2016 Last football book I read I think.... Spoiler alert: judging by the keeper's positioning, I reckon that's in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fuctifano Posted August 15, 2016 Share Posted August 15, 2016 Was a bit disappointed in The Numbers Game, thought with being a football stats geek it would be right up my street but it took me a few attempts to get through it. I'll never finish The Ball is Round, I actually took it to South America with me 5 years ago to read on long trips, was probably the heaviest thing in my luggage. Just read all the bits on South America Stramash is good, don't think that's been mentioned. Based on a guy going round grounds in Scotland in 09/10, giving brief history of the towns and teams and some local anecdotes. Places like Ayr, Greenock, Cowdenbeath etc. Always assumed TSF was Dave Kitson with some stories from his mates thrown in to make it inconclusive that it's him but the journo using 4 or 5 different folk is a more sensible theory. I quite liked Zlatan's book but it is what you'd expect; weirdly I did think as soon as Mourinho got the Man Utd job he'd follow him as Mourinho is about one of the 5 people in football other than himself that he likes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul-r-cfc Posted August 16, 2016 Share Posted August 16, 2016 Also just remembered I read Pierluigi Collins's book on holiday about a decade ago. Good read and interesting to learn about the game from that viewpoint Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
highlandcowden Posted August 16, 2016 Share Posted August 16, 2016 13 hours ago, Fuctifano said: Was a bit disappointed in The Numbers Game, thought with being a football stats geek it would be right up my street but it took me a few attempts to get through it. Stramash is good, don't think that's been mentioned. Based on a guy going round grounds in Scotland in 09/10, giving brief history of the towns and teams and some local anecdotes. Places like Ayr, Greenock, Cowdenbeath etc. I found stramash hugely disappointing,same with hunting grounds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ranaldo Bairn Posted August 16, 2016 Share Posted August 16, 2016 Definitely do not get "Is the Baw Burst?" A Rangers fan does the 'groundhopping' thing looking for 'solutions' to Scottish football's 'ailments'. It includes a trip to Old Trafford in the UCL just as a, you know, relevant counterpoint to Station Park and Cliftonhill. I think they even did an updated version after Rangers went breests up. The one I bought has 'dark financial clouds gathering' etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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