World Book Day - favourite City book

[Ric]

10 City fans were asked to name their favourite City book, as part of World Book Day:

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I was tempted to go for The City Years by Gary James, or Paul Lake's autobiography but others had already selected those so I went for Mark Hodkinson's Blue Moon: Down Amongst The Dead Men With Manchester City. Thoroughly recommend it if you haven't already read it.

 

[growl]

 Manchester United Ruined My Life by Colin Shindler. Sums up the life long burden of supporting City so well.

 

[Didsbury Dave]

A great choice Ric, and an almost forgotten book.

Plenty have chosen Gray James's "The City Years" and Lakey's book, quite right, but this one deserves to stand alongside them because it takes you right back to that famous season. You can smell the pies, the mud, the beer and the skunk. And you can taste the desperation and, best of all, the elation at the end.

"Farewell to Maine Road" is a cracker too.

 

[cyberblue]

I THOUGHT Andy Morrisons was awesome

 

[Gary James]

Thanks for the comments on my books. Much appreciated (actually my Manchester The Greatest City - the predecessor of Manchester The City Years - was about ten years ago voted one of the greatest sports books of all time by a panel of experts in The Times).

Obviously, ignoring my own books, I'd echo the comments about Mark Hodkinson's book and would also add Football Wizard: The Story of Billy Meredith. A biography that inspired me to write and well worth a read by City fans.

 

[mayo31]

I THOUGHT Andy Morrisons was awesome

DID YOU....

I liked the Stop Making Sense: Manchester City, Russia and me by Peter Brophy

Different

 

[mrtwiceaseason]

10 City fans were asked to name their favourite City book, as part of World Book Day:

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I was tempted to go for The City Years by Gary James, or Paul Lake's autobiography but others had already selected those so I went for Mark Hodkinson's Blue Moon: Down Amongst The Dead Men With Manchester City. Thoroughly recommend it if you haven't already read it.

100% agree with your choice a copy should be out with each season card and givern to every newvsigning .it sums up what its like to be city .
Just finished reading the Paul lake book ,enjoyed it but having suffered depression myself I thought it was very lightweight and lacking detail at that point .
Just started richer than god seems OK but havnt people slagged it off on here ?

 

[Prestwich_Blue]

Obviously, ignoring my own books, I'd echo the comments about Mark Hodkinson's book and would also add Football Wizard: The Story of Billy Meredith. A biography that inspired me to write and well worth a read by City fans.

That is indeed a wonderful book and I'd highly recommend it to all City fans. It shows that the game was just as much about money over 100 years ago and the authorities had it in for us even then.

I also like "Blue Moon Rising: The Fall and Rise of Manchester City" by Andy Buckley and Richard Burgess. Goes through the 1990's year by year, covering the Reid days, the final years of Swales and Forward with Franny, the relegation down to League 1, Makin's meltdown on Radio Manchester, Bernstein and finishes with that epic game at Blackburn and the return to the PL.

There's still a great book to be written about the following ten years, including the move to the new stadium, the ousting of Bernstein, the Pearce era, Shinawatra and the descent into financial chaos, the ADUG takeover and Garry Cook's demise and I know Gary has all or most of the material.

 

[baildon blue]

Highs lows and Balti pies .
Brilliant book about Manchester City

 

[Gary James]

There's still a great book to be written about the following ten years, including the move to the new stadium, the ousting of Bernstein, the Pearce era, Shinawatra and the descent into financial chaos, the ADUG takeover and Garry Cook's demise and I know Gary has all or most of the material.

Written over 100,000 words on it and it was almost published but then... best not to get into it here, but one day it will appear. It was based on 100s of hours of interviews performed with all the key figures as it was all happening between 2007 through to 2011 FAC success. It will appear one day, but the time has to be right. But if I die before the time's right then there are instructions to release it anyway!