Absolutely by far the best football book I’ve ever read.
I’d love to have seen Clough in his pomp take on Jose Mourinho. Talk about a battle of egos. Cloughie would have left him weeping in the corner, then signed his best player.
Buy it.
Update: Oooh, it looks like they’re making it into a film. Still buy the book though.
Did you have fun colouring in the pictures then?
1/10
Looks great!
That is the recommended age-range for readers of the book??
Ahh- it all becomes clear now…
No, then I would have written 1-10.
1/10 indicates how much of the working half of your brain you use.
Which puts me at least 99/100′s ahead of the rest of you! : )
Here’s a jar of bubbles, go play.
When they said you were a bastard, twenty, the ymeant a ‘fractious’ bastard – not a ‘fractions’ bastard.
; )
I take no quarter, Gluey.
fair play to you then : )
The same tired old actors that are in every fucking Brit Flick. I swear there must be a grand total of 6 actors in the U.k.
I’m not doubting you but….
Have you read Full Time – Cascarino? For comparisons. It is a very bold statement -Absolutely by far the best football book I’ve ever read
Haven’t read that actually, keep meaning to. But of the ones I have this is the best.
Clough Vs Mourinho, what a wicked web you weave.
It’d be fucking cool though, wouldn’t it?
The dogs bollox.
divneymathers Says:
February 26th, 2009 at 9:45 pm
The dogs bollox.
That’d be bollix. Latin?
I was recommended this book a couple of years ago,and everytime i went to buy it,it was in stock.hopefully because of the film,i will be able to get it,I may do that tomorrow (which I have off work)
Fridays off are fucking great…
I was recommended this book a couple of years ago,and everytime i went to buy it,it was’nt in stock.hopefully because of the film,i will be able to get it,I may do that tomorrow (which I have off work)
Fridays off are fucking great…
delete that first post please Twenty..hic!
it’s a filum eh…..now that’s my sort of reading……all together now,
“We all hate leeds scu….”
oh okay…..I’ll leave it
The only qualm I have with the book is the fact that after legal proceedings by John Giles, the author had to excise several passages. Makes you wonder how much of the rest of the book is tainted..
I agree that Cascarino’s book is excellent, tarnished only by the fact that since he released the book he has become a self-aggrandising prick.
Only a game? by Eamon Dunphy is written in real time and is compelling as a diary of a struggling footballer in a time before huge wages. Tony Adams’ bio is also brilliant, as is Paul McGrath’s.
Most modern football bio’s are just puff and bollocks, see Steven Gerrard’s unholy pile of cack.
Come on Rob – what else would you expect from a scouser ?
Any player biog written while he’s still playing is likely to be shit.
Only a game is fantastic, no question. I’d also seriously recommend ‘The Miracle of Castel di Sangro’. Not a biog, but a very good book about an American journo who thinks he knows it all about football and spends a season with a tiny Italian side who have managed to get themselves promoted to Serie B.
I was given Gerarrd’s Biog for Christmas last year..
The writing is dreadful,he must have got Jordan in as his shadow writer… awful..
Peace’s Red Riding set of police novels is superb too. BBC’s televising it this week, although there’s no way they can to justice to its sweary nihilsm. Not in this fallen world.
Just catching up on this now …
Have to agree on The Damned United, but am worried about the film as the trailer doesn’t look promising. To be honest, I don’t know how a film could do a book like that justice.
The Giles thing is interesting – seeems as if Revie had Giles earmarked as his successor – the links below is an ITV interview with both Cough and Revie at the time Could you imagine a smiliar confrontation taking place in the anodyne world of football today? Just scroll down a bit to ‘Clough v. Revie’ Worth it for the haircuts alone ….
http://www.itvlocal.com/yorkshire/sport/?player=YOR_Sport_15&void=281384
On Italian football, in my view a much better read than ‘The Miracle …’ is a book called ‘A Season with Verona’ by Tim Parks. He’s a British writer based in Italy so he knows the culture, and the book consists of him following the team around when they made it into Serie A a few years ago.
I keep meaning to get ‘A season with Verona’, will definitely check that out now.
The Clough v Revie interview is brilliant.
Verona is particularly good on the ultras – Lazio, Roma and so on
Agree with No Good Boyo on the Red Riding tip. Best books I’ve read in ages and the CH4 adaptation (tomorrow night?) looks the dog’s bollocks. Though it’s never as good as the book is it?