Not an autobiography from some twat in his twenties either. Especially if his name is Jamie Carragher.

You've probably read fever pitch, eh...

I can't think of any others. Football books are mostly ****.

You've probably read fever pitch, eh...

I can't think of any others. Football books are mostly ****.

No I never read Fever Pitch funnily enough. I ws thinking more of a non-fiction one. Jimmy Greaves' Heart of the Game is a good one.

You should read fever pitch. Tis a great book.

Did our Jimmy write it himself? I always imagine that most football books (autobiographies or otherwise) written by players or ex players are ghost written and that the player/ex player didn't really have much to do with it.

Oh and Fever Pitch is non-fiction btw. T'was only after Fever Pitch that the Hornby fella starting writing teh fiction.

You should read fever pitch. Tis a great book.

Did our Jimmy write it himself? I always imagine that most football books (autobiographies or otherwise) written by players or ex players are ghost written and that the player/ex player didn't really have much to do with it.

Well Jimmy was a journalist after he hung up his boots so I think he probably wrote most of it. He will probably have used extensive editing though, because putting a book together is pretty difficult. I've tried and failed!

I think most "autobiographies" are ghost written. In any case I won't read anybody's autobiography if they're younger than thirty. If you haven't reached thirty you haven't had enough experience to put a book out. Ann Frank, I'm talking to you!

http://www.amazon.com/How-Soccer-Explains-World-Globalization/dp/0066212340/ref=sr_1_12?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1211512175&sr=8-12

Well Jimmy was a journalist after he hung up his boots so I think he probably wrote most of it. He will probably have used extensive editing though, because putting a book together is pretty difficult. I've tried and failed!

I think most "autobiographies" are ghost written. In any case I won't read anybody's autobiography if they're younger than thirty. If you haven't reached thirty you haven't had enough experience to put a book out. Ann Frank, I'm talking to you!

Ann Frank was a slag. How dare she think her meaningless doodlings on a page were worth publishing? The tart!

Graeme Le Saux! Now there's a footballer that could write a book. I mean the fella reads the guardian so he's blatantly one of them intelligent puffs. However, if he happened to write his autobiography it would be full of his bumming exploits. He does read the guardian after all.

'From Shattered Dreams to Wembley Way' is a book i bought and is quite interesting, about cardiff city. the guy who wrote was caught up in the euro 2000 trouble.



'Shattered Dreams' tells the story of the dramatic Sam Hammam era from the perspective of some of the people who got closest to the club's former-owner during his time in South Wales.

Interesting read about football outside the prawn sandwich lot.

The Damned United was excellent, although the line between fact and fiction was a bit blurred...

Peter Osgood's autobiography was a good read, as were Tommy Docherty's and Stan Bowles'. Should also check out Provided You Don't Kiss Me: 20 Years with Brian Clough, and Broken Dreams, Tom Bower's expose of corruption in the game.

http://www.amazon.com/How-Soccer-Explains-World-Globalization/dp/0066212340/ref=sr_1_12?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1211512175&sr=8-12

Is that one good? I always thought it seemed a bit over ambitious.

Provided You Don't Kiss Me:20 years with Brian Clough. Great read.

I always thought it seemed a bit over ambitious.
It is that, but it's still well worth the read. Over-ambition isn't necessarily the hamartia of anything.








Just for the hell of it - some of my personal favorite bits of football related writing are contained in this,

http://www.amazon.com/Century-Wind-Memory-Fire-Trilogy/dp/0393318079



Dunno if you've read it before, but Galeano's vignettes on Pelé and Garrincha -- if preciously short -- are worth the price of purchase alone (my only regret is that it stops before he gets to Maradona's defining years)...and there should be plenty more besides among the non-footy related pieces to give you interest.

Im gonna write a book where you die in the first chapter.

Provided You Don't Kiss Me:20 years with Brian Clough. Great read.

Yeah I might pick that up. Cloughy is a character.

Im gonna write a book where you die in the first chapter.

I'll help you out with the first step:

http://grandmabs3.com/DVD-LearnToRead.jpg

Yeah I might pick that up. Cloughy is a character.



I'll help you out with the first step:

http://grandmabs3.com/DVD-LearnToRead.jpg

You Canadian traitor.

You Canadian traitor.

Who am I a traitor to?

http://www.amazon.com/How-Soccer-Explains-World-Globalization/dp/0066212340/ref=sr_1_12?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1211512175&sr=8-12

That looks interesting

Who am I a traitor to?

To the English.

To the English.

That's not true. The Queen is still the Queen.

any book about clougie.

also one called england away is good.