Prestwich_Blue
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Just seen this book has come out about the takeover in 2008. Anyone read it?
I haven't read it. Wanted to see if it was any good before spending £10.I will wait for your review Mr PB...
(Just downloaded a sample which I will look at in due course...)
JJ
Pep’s next authorised biography should be called “In the Name of Football”.Saw the title of the thread and assumed it was a book about PEG and the absolute dross the Rags currently serve up in the name of football.
Just seen this book has come out about the takeover in 2008. Anyone read it?
I've only seen one review (link above), which gives it an absolute slating. It's from a source likely to be hostile to City anyway so little surprise there, but even allowing for that fact, it does sound as though it's been produced by someone who makes a living from purveying the kind of vapid PR bullshit I usually loathe.
I'm waiting for other City fans to read it and say whether, nonetheless, they gleaned information of interest from it. Also, I'm abroad and buy most of my books in Kindle format for convenience rather than entrusting them to the Russian postal service; I'm therefore waiting for the price to drop. I think a tenner is overpriced for a book in that format.
Elsewhere, a club historian – who is apparently a grown man and not an affection-starved puppy – is quoted as saying that, “When I sat down I just knew that what Khaldoon was going to say was right. I just knew it. I just got this warm feeling, which I probably hadn’t had with any other owner of City, ever.”