by Toon Toon Blue army » 29 Jun 2011 22:45
by Svlad Cjelli » 29 Jun 2011 23:01
Toon Toon Blue army This is going to be a long shot, but someone a few months ago recommended a book that sounded good but I never got around to buying and now I can't remember what it was called. It was about the current state of the game in England or something similar, and I think the title was along the lines of "why we are rubbish at football". That was the general tone of the book I was lead to believe anyway.
Any ideas?
by Toon Toon Blue army » 29 Jun 2011 23:52
Svlad CjelliToon Toon Blue army This is going to be a long shot, but someone a few months ago recommended a book that sounded good but I never got around to buying and now I can't remember what it was called. It was about the current state of the game in England or something similar, and I think the title was along the lines of "why we are rubbish at football". That was the general tone of the book I was lead to believe anyway.
Any ideas?
by reading_fan » 30 Jun 2011 20:05
roadrunnerreading_fan I've just read Graham Poll's Seeing Red autobiography on holiday, and found it very interesting - a very open and honest account of his career (with a couple of mentions of RFC in there) and obviously all the stuff surrounding the World Cup. I'd previously read Perluigi Collina's autobiography The Rules of the Game, which was excellent.
I'm now after a new football book to read - any recommendations? I bought Dad the Bert Trautmann biography which I might borrow when he's finished it, but in the mean time what is a good football book you have read and would suggest I try?
What were the references to Reading?
by Starfish » 30 Jun 2011 20:19
From Despair To Where? Tim Parks - A Season With Verona - Does what the title says, a travelogue of a season with Hellas Verona with some of the most vilified fans in Italy. They survived relegation from Serie A in a relegation play off after looking dead and buried with 4 games left. My favourite football book.
by bobbybottler » 30 Jun 2011 20:48
by Ark Royal » 01 Jul 2011 03:22
by 11.30 from paddington » 01 Jul 2011 11:14
Svlad Cjelli11.30 from paddington Also liked 'The Greatest Footballer You Never Saw,' for obvious reasons.
Great story, but a feckin awful book to read. No flow, nos style, nothing added by the author - just a series of EPo articles stitched together with a few basic words.
by Red » 01 Jul 2011 11:18
Svlad CjelliToon Toon Blue army This is going to be a long shot, but someone a few months ago recommended a book that sounded good but I never got around to buying and now I can't remember what it was called. It was about the current state of the game in England or something similar, and I think the title was along the lines of "why we are rubbish at football". That was the general tone of the book I was lead to believe anyway.
Any ideas?
by Red » 01 Jul 2011 11:22
floyd__streete The Far Corner - Harry Pearson
by Ark Royal » 01 Jul 2011 14:19
11.30 from paddingtonSvlad Cjelli11.30 from paddington Also liked 'The Greatest Footballer You Never Saw,' for obvious reasons.
Great story, but a feckin awful book to read. No flow, nos style, nothing added by the author - just a series of EPo articles stitched together with a few basic words.
Don't get me wrong - it's no literary masterpiece! As you imply, the 'authors' acted more as editors. But as someone who started supporting Reading post-Friday, it was my first insight into our club's cult figure.
I liked the absence of the narrative voice, and the fact it was replaced with interviews with people who knew him (particularly his family). The fact it was interspersed with the E-Po articles alongside the interviews, lent it an unbiased feel, so it felt as if I was able to make my own mind up about him, without being influenced by one person's opinion. A decent introduction to him, I thought.
Anyway, I agree that there's room for another much better book to be written about the great man though.
Might give the online photo-essay by Roger Titford a go.
There are some decent recommends on this thread...
by Terminal Boardom » 01 Jul 2011 16:28
by Victor Meldrew » 01 Jul 2011 21:06
by papereyes » 05 Jul 2011 12:40
Red
The impression I get is that it's all a bit "No shit sherlock"
by Wax Jacket » 11 Jul 2011 14:46
From Despair To Where? Tim Parks - A Season With Verona - Does what the title says, a travelogue of a season with Hellas Verona with some of the most vilified fans in Italy. They survived relegation from Serie A in a relegation play off after looking dead and buried with 4 games left. My favourite football book.
by Starfish » 11 Jul 2011 16:37
Wax JacketFrom Despair To Where? Tim Parks - A Season With Verona - Does what the title says, a travelogue of a season with Hellas Verona with some of the most vilified fans in Italy. They survived relegation from Serie A in a relegation play off after looking dead and buried with 4 games left. My favourite football book.
honestly I couldn't stand this book, talk about a johnny-come-lately with a hugely inflated sense of his own wonderfulness
by From Despair To Where? » 12 Jul 2011 17:17
StarfishWax JacketFrom Despair To Where? Tim Parks - A Season With Verona - Does what the title says, a travelogue of a season with Hellas Verona with some of the most vilified fans in Italy. They survived relegation from Serie A in a relegation play off after looking dead and buried with 4 games left. My favourite football book.
honestly I couldn't stand this book, talk about a johnny-come-lately with a hugely inflated sense of his own wonderfulness
As I said before, I liked it. And hadn't he been a season ticket holder for 15-20 years when he wrote the book?
by Wax Jacket » 13 Jul 2011 09:23
by Red » 13 Jul 2011 09:47
Wax Jacket backed up by a girl I knew who'd done TEFL with him and said he was a massive dickhead.
by Wax Jacket » 13 Jul 2011 10:31
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