New City book...please, Blues, lend your support.

Just want to point out that it is No1 in the Manchester City book list on Amazon. Currently beating, erm, Pep. Lol.

In the football section, it's 34th, 2 ahead of Rat Boy.

The eBook can be downloaded instantly anywhere on the planet, just saying.

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Thanks to anyone who has dabbled. It has sold a few more than I expected. If anyone is interested in trying, please consider the more affordable eBook. I have the hardback, author's proof, and I am very pleased with it. Crazy price though. Any support or feedback you can give me is welcome. The book is not all about my football obsession, far from it. Some of the stuff that has happened to us has been mad; the firebombing of our home in 1997, for example, was quite a moment. The broken leg mountaineering story, the horrors of a Kibbutz in 1984 and France in 1986, plus my extraordinary creation of 'piss goal gods', that time and again enticed a City goal; 3, in fact, at the Villa 3-2 comeback win. I'll assume your thanks for that. No problem.

Go on, give it a whirl. We need more fan-written stuff about this club we all love so much; the media is dominated by the self-appointed red top legacy clubs. It is utter bullshit. The media, that is, not the book. Lol.

CITY & ME. Available here.
 
s1ty m said:
Thanks to Ric for allowing me to post on here.

Hello, fellow Blues. Long-standing member on this forum. I am trying to publicise the release of a book I have written; my first, so it is all a bit nerve-racking. It is a book about City, viewed through my eyes over almost sixty years. I’ll try to keep this short, but I will follow it up below with the full PREFACE of the book, to give you a flavour, plus what the weird AI thing says about it. On the linked pages, there is a synopsis, as per usual with Amazon. Any digital device can work with the free Kindle app, and should you deem it worthy of a download, it goes straight into your library for keeps, of course.

The synopsis provided on the linked Amazon page gives a feel for the book. It is a memoir/autobiography. In it, I diary life events alongside memorable moments in a lifetime of watching professional football. I hope you will find the stories amusing too, because they were, frankly, great fun to write about. I also address mental health and explain how I have lived with issues (anxiety mainly) for most of my life. I had a thought that writing about it, my Black Dog, might help me understand it. It didn't. Lol.

City & Me: A tale of a boy, a man, a football club, and his Black Dog.: Amazon.co.uk: Rennie, Michael: 9798299167221: Books

Buy City & Me: A tale of a boy, a man, a football club, and his Black Dog. by Rennie, Michael (ISBN: 9798299167221) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
www.amazon.co.uk

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Just ordered it. Looking forward to it
 
Mad Eyed Screamer said:
Ordered mine just now. $14 to send to the US which was the same price as the book but that’s fine. Should get it 25th Sept.

Will buy 2 more copies a few weeks before Xmas as presents for fellow Blues
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Thanks. Means a lot to hear that, from a burgeoning stateside media celebrity, such as Phill. Great piece on your covered bridges adventure.
 
Just finished the book.
I could write a lot about it, the school days section is about as close as it ever gets to Barry Hines "A Kestral For A Knave", which was turned into the film "Kes", but will save myself the effort and say "just buy it, you wont be disappointed."
Well done Mick, you should be proud of the effort and detail put into it.
I'll be buying two copies nearer Xmas as presents for fellow Blues.
 
Mad Eyed Screamer said:
Just finished the book.
I could write a lot about it, the school days section is about as close as it ever gets to Barry Hines "A Kestral For A Knave", which was turned into the film "Kes", but will save myself the effort and say "just buy it, you wont be disappointed."
Well done Mick, you should be proud of the effort and detail put into it.
I'll be buying two copies nearer Xmas as presents for fellow Blues.
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Wow ! Great feedback !
 
Mad Eyed Screamer said:
Just finished the book.
I could write a lot about it, the school days section is about as close as it ever gets to Barry Hines "A Kestral For A Knave", which was turned into the film "Kes", but will save myself the effort and say "just buy it, you wont be disappointed."
Well done Mick, you should be proud of the effort and detail put into it.
I'll be buying two copies nearer Xmas as presents for fellow Blues.
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Thank you, this is wonderful to read.

If anyone is interested, please do try the eBook, which opens easily and will read well on literally any device. I promise you it is funny, some say hilarious, packed with City stuff, and some bizarre life stories which are all true.

City & Me: A tale of a boy, a man, a football club, and his Black Dog.: Amazon.co.uk: Rennie, Michael: 9798299167221: Books

Buy City & Me: A tale of a boy, a man, a football club, and his Black Dog. by Rennie, Michael (ISBN: 9798299167221) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.
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pride in battle said:
I have just read your review on amazon, great stuff, just copy & paste :)
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I have so far read half of the book but feel qualified enough to judge the whole book.
The opening chapters on growing up and school life captures graphically the innocence of going to infants / primary school and then being thrust into the malevolence of secondary school - in this case 1.500 boys on top of the often sadistic teachers.
Put into print in the same vein as "A Kestral For A Knave" - which became the film "Kes" - and onto vinyl by The Smiths in "The Headmaster Ritual", Rennie's journey through seven years in secondary school is as bleak and as daunting as Barry Hines tale of Billy Casper and Morrissey's own experiences of the perceived 'Golden Years" of our lives. If the bullies weren't out to get you, then there was no shortage of teachers waitng in the wings to cane the backside off you.
And while Billy Casper had a young hawk to escape the horrors of the broken educational system, Rennie had sock football, played in which ever house his family moved to and lived in a fantasy world of playing football games against himself in his garden with the cream of European sides competing in his own made up league...... And there was Manchester City. Taken to games at an early age with his father, Saturday's became the day when the pair left Rennie's mother and older sister behind and went off to wherever City were playing and these became very special times for the pair. Indeed if City were not playing, the pair would go off and seek another game to watch in the surrounding area..........
Rennie leaves school, bruised but undeterred and ends up at Manchester Polytechnic - when a dark cloud filters down and into his life, encompassing his life and taking over his thoughts at times. Rennie's fight against this - his Black Dog - and subsequent rise to being in a position of high authority in the educational system in the same city he attended school is remarkable and laid bare in a brutally honest account of his struggles.
And Manchester City were still a constant throughout this - albeit without his father who had passed away and thus missing out on the climax of the book, as Manchester City win football's treble of the Premier League, Champions League and FA Cup in the same season.
You don't have to be a City fan to appreciate the book, it is a book for anyone who is a football fan to relate to. And if you just happened to grow up going to school in the 1970's it might just send a few shudders down your spine when reading it.
 
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