Best player biography

[spionfox]

Or perhaps you were trying to stir things up?

Nope. Just mistaken.

 

[Volpone]

Martin O'Neill's autobiography is the one I really want to read when he eventually writes it. I know there have been one or two unauthorised biographies but you can't beat getting it directly from the horse's mouth.

 

[Joe_Fox]

Mine's pretty good - 'Vote Joe_Fox you tossers'. Look out for it.

 

[tedfoxxx]

Mine's pretty good - 'Vote Joe_Fox you tossers'. Look out for it.

I really enjoyed the chapter about betting.

 

[Joe_Fox]

That was a ripper of a chapter wasn't it!

 

[Volpone]

Went back to my local Oxfam bookshop today to see if Steve Claridge's 'Tales from the boot camps' was still there.

It wasn't. But amazingly I picked up 3 other former LCFC player biographies in hardback for only £0.99 each, namely

'Savage!'

'From prison to the Premiership' - Jamie Lawrence (apparently the amazing true story of Britain's hardest footballer!)

Neil Lennon's 'Man and Bhoy'

 

[David Gwilliam]

The best book on football I have read is "Soccernomics" by Simon Kuper. It s subtitle is "Why England Loses" but it is about much more e.g. should a club spend money on higher wages or higher transfer fees, what is the best age to buy a player etc.

Desmond Morris book "The Football Tribe" is old but it is still relevant.

Perhaps the most important book on football was "The Football Revolution" by Willy Meisl which charted the rise of football around the world at the expense of Britain. It came out in 1953. The wiser of you will have spotted that it was soon followed by Hungary beating England 6-3 at Wembley and 7-1 in Budapest. The book influenced people like Matt Busby, Stan Cullis, Alf Ramsey and Ron Greenwood to emphasize tactics rather than the mindless running that used to comprise training.

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[Robin127]

The best football book I've read was "All Played Out" by Pete Davies about England at the World Cup in 1990.

 

[jb5000]

Simon Kuper is a fantastic writer, have you read his Football Against The Enemy? I will have to see if the Meisl book is still in print, sounds most interesting.

 

[Miles Away]

The best book on football I have read is "Soccernomics" by Simon Kuper. It s subtitle is "Why England Loses" but it is about much more e.g. should a club spend money on higher wages or higher transfer fees, what is the best age to buy a player etc.

Desmond Morris book "The Football Tribe" is old but it is still relevant.

Perhaps the most important book on football was "The Football Revolution" by Willy Meisl which charted the rise of football around the world at the expense of Britain. It came out in 1953. The wiser of you will have spotted that it was soon followed by Hungary beating England 6-3 at Wembley and 7-1 in Budapest. The book influenced people like Matt Busby, Stan Cullis, Alf Ramsey and Ron Greenwood to emphasize tactics rather than the mindless running that used to comprise training.

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Soccernomics also gets my endorsement.

 

[Motown Fox]

There's not one by Adam Black by any chance or by his daughter about his boots and some wrong info given by John Hutchinson about finding them.

 

[pork pie fox]

There's not one by Adam Black by any chance or by his daughter about his boots and some wrong info given by John Hutchinson about finding them.

I was disappointed his daughter's status was removed, I was waiting for the next update to understand what the feck she was going on about.

 

[Motown Fox]

I was disappointed his daughter's status was removed, I was waiting for the next update to understand what the feck she was going on about.

Same here. I wondered how many more on here saw her status before it was removed.

 

[Miles Away]

Go on.....

 

[spionfox]

Same here. I wondered how many more on here saw her status before it was removed.

I asked her if she had looked behind the sofa.