What's the best football book of all time?

[meltonblue]

Just reading this at the moment. The more I read the more he pisses me off.
Although he professes to be a City fan in his youth he singles out City as spoiling the game and says the council allowed City to destroy East Manchester. He doesn’t use the phrase but he accuses our owners of Sports washing.
He thinks City fans are desperate in thanking our owners (on a banner) and says we should have done a United in revolting against the Sheikh - as an example he devotes a whole chapter on FC United of Manchester (Norwich reserves), Oh and the way we treated Mark Hughes was classless and disgraceful.
He’s very much a jumpers for goalposts man living in the world of football when you could turn up in the day and pay at the turnstiles. He can’t understand why City fans who won nothing for 37 years have turned their back on Manchester

I’d need to read it again but I remember quite liking it when I read it the first time. I didn’t agree with some of his viewpoints but I didn’t think they were without merit or not well argued, I was conflicted about a lot of it too and found it interesting to read a city fan articulating it.

His journalism since then though, I’m not a fan of whatsoever.

 

[PinkFinal]

Looks interesting. About the Texaco Cup and other long forgotten competitions

 

[GoatersLeftShin]

He's not a City player, but I really enjoyed Tony Cascarino's autobiography. It was very honest and very surprising. He basically ends up in a lot of pain playing in a poor team in France. It also turns out he wasn't eligible to play for Ireland and some people wanted to strip him of his caps. He lays it bare on what he earned and goes through the highs and lows of player. Considering he was around in the start of the PL, he both earned a lot relative to the players just before him and not much compared to the ones a few years later. It's a great book!

 

[beehive_bob]

He's not a City player, but I really enjoyed Tony Cascarino's autobiography. It was very honest and very surprising. He basically ends up in a lot of pain playing in a poor team in France. It also turns out he wasn't eligible to play for Ireland and some people wanted to strip him of his caps. He lays it bare on what he earned and goes through the highs and lows of player. Considering he was around in the start of the PL, he both earned a lot relative to the players just before him and not much compared to the ones a few years later. It's a great book!

Agreed, it's a really good read.

 

[Didsbury Dave]

First book I can remember reading as a kid around 1975. It was also a series on the BBC. Happy days!

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Oh god, that cover has triggered a 50 year old memory cell in my brain.

 

[PinkFinal]

These look good

 

[Spurs quarter 69]

Looks interesting. About the Texaco Cup and other long forgotten competitions

Think I remember Halifax beating rags in this in the early 70s, same day we had a friendly at Port Vale

 

[BongoBlue]

Shoot Annual 1974
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I had that!

 

[Spurs quarter 69]

Loved my Lancashire football annual 1970, City double trophy winners, Mercer plus Allison equals success. Nothing positive to say about United they were spotless and remained so for seven lo nh years. Wigan , Fleetwood, Accrington and Morcambe non league. Blackpool promoted to First Division. Only one lancy team 4th division, Barrow and Southport 3rd division. Still got it a great present thanks dad.

 

[Spurs quarter 69]

Loved my Lancashire football annual 1970, City double trophy winners, Mercer plus Allison equals success. Nothing positive to say about United they were spotless and remained so for seven lo nh years. Wigan , Fleetwood, Accrington and Morcambe non league. Blackpool promoted to First Division. Only one lancy team 4th division, Barrow and Southport 3rd division. Still got it a great present thanks dad.

Long years and potless bloody predictive text