Blue blood: the mike doyle story

[beehive_bob]

A top, dyed in the wool Blue, but that book is a shocker. Only perservered with it to the end because he was a great Blue.

Rodney Marsh's autobiog is a very good read - obviously it's not all about City but found it well written and interesting.

 

[Fat Chance]

I was a nipper in '74 and thought the Stretford End singing 'your gonna get your fuckin head kicked in' meant me personally, anyone there that day will tell you how moody it got. With the players running off the pitch a Utd fan attempted to kick Doyle up the arse and copped for a winger, whereupon a mini posse baited doyle.....he put his mitts up, running was'nt his game. For that single act alone i'll forgive him a shit book. Geezer.

 

[djm68]

But let's have it right, there isn't one single decent biography around of any ex-City player.

Applies to 98% of all football biographies. I use to go into Borders and scan read new ones.It would only take a page or two to realise they wouldn't be worth buying...no wonder Borders went out of business!

However, I did really enjoy Alan Rowlands' Bert Trautmann biography. Has anyone read the more recent Trautmann book? Also, I haven't yet got round to getting Gary James's revised Joe Mercer book. I'd be surprised if that isn't up to scratch.

 

[Dale Blue]

Ultimately, though, the thing I found most disappointing about Blue Blood is that it actually created a negative impression in my mind of a City legend: it's entirely subjective, but to me Doyle came across as a very embittered, and not especially pleasant, man. .[/quote]

Mike Doyle came to speak at our City Branch meeting a few years ago, Im 36 & he's before my time, but he did come across as exactly that.

 

[masterwig]

But let's have it right, there isn't one single decent biography around of any ex-City player.

Does Fred Eyre count as ex-City? Kicked Into Touch is brilliant.

 

[Dale Blue]

But let's have it right, there isn't one single decent biography around of any ex-City player.

Does Fred Eyre count as ex-City? Kicked Into Touch is brilliant.

How can so much have happened to one man? Should have been called "Pinch of Salt"

 

[Bruce Wades-Hughes]

Does Fred Eyre count as ex-City? Kicked Into Touch is brilliant.

How can so much have happened to one man? Should have been called "Pinch of Salt"

Agree, parts of Kicked Into Touch came across a bit contrived, but fair do's, it broke the mould at the time by injecting some humour and self-deprecation into a football autobiography.

Niall Quinn's book is a pretty good read, IMO, although the focus on City is limited, with more emphasis on Arsenal and the Republic of Ireland (and far too much about Roy Keane's various 'issues'...)

 

[bluwes]

Whats your problem pal?
If you don't like the book or (any book for that matter) then fair enough.
The point I was making was I did read a Mick Doyle book, I just didn't remember the name of it...and it was a long time ago so that is why I was a bit vague on the details!
I just think your being a tosser and looking for an argument tbh, books are subjective yes?...like music, fashion, cars etc etc

Maybe you should buy some Nited books for your entertainment...you might prefer them?

Oh dear! Thought my post was self-explanatory.

No, I don't like the book and no, it's obviously not fair enough with you. Is it? Thought I might save a few fellow Blues a bit of their hard-earned instead of wasting it on an obvious cash-in...

But then I remembered, because we don't happen to agree, that yeah, I'm a big rag. Ask anyone...

Noel, Saw your Giggsy quilt cover on the washing line last week, so yeh !!

 

[jay_mcfc]

Doyle's was bad but Colin Bell's was worse. Like someone has said most footballers biographies are shit because they don't have a story to them and 98% of the time sound like mard arses about how they were treated by managers/clubs/supporters etc. The only thing they can tell you is bits of gossip about certain aspects of the club you might not know about, wow!

Bert Trautmann's is the best but really that has nothing to do with football or City; it's a history book with a continuous feature of a guy who became famous. Bert's book has real stories and is emotive. In a book of about 330 pages he only starts talking about City after about 250 and even then it doesn't last long. It shows how eventful his life was and is.

 

[mancunial]

i lived in the next town to mike, if i can recollect the night before we played united at old trafford very early seventies, their was an attack on his home in a u lyne, by a certain group of idiots from that area, can,t quite remember what went on properlly, but i don,t think it affected him he the boys still beat them, real city player mike real fan as well, if certain young players at city took a look out of mikes ideas then they wouldn,t be looking over their shoulders in the team, he did play centre forward at bury one year before we got promoted and if my memory serves me right i think he went in the nets as well?

I was a nipper in '74 and thought the Stretford End singing 'your gonna get your fuckin head kicked in' meant me personally, anyone there that day will tell you how moody it got. With the players running off the pitch a Utd fan attempted to kick Doyle up the arse and copped for a winger, whereupon a mini posse baited doyle.....he put his mitts up, running was'nt his game. For that single act alone i'll forgive him a shit book. Geezer.