ParisStag wrote:A Season With Verona by Tim Parks is the best football book I've ever read. Englishman travels home and away with the ultras of Helas Verona as they try to stay in Serie A and documents each game with plenty of insight into Italian culture and football. Verona are called the 'gialloblu', which means yellow and blues!
ParisStag wrote:A Season With Verona by Tim Parks is the best football book I've ever read. Englishman travels home and away with the ultras of Helas Verona as they try to stay in Serie A and documents each game with plenty of insight into Italian culture and football. Verona are called the 'gialloblu', which means yellow and blues!
Billy the fish wrote:Anyone recommend a good read around the pool ?? Thanks
Tippy Tappy Football wrote:Have you read Journeyman by Ben Smith? The chapters on Steve Evans' time at Crawley are brilliant.
Billy the fish wrote:ParisStag wrote:A Season With Verona by Tim Parks is the best football book I've ever read. Englishman travels home and away with the ultras of Helas Verona as they try to stay in Serie A and documents each game with plenty of insight into Italian culture and football. Verona are called the 'gialloblu', which means yellow and blues!
Cheers paris will try and find it ..
Foresttownstag wrote:Billy the fish wrote:Anyone recommend a good read around the pool ?? Thanks
Jamie Vardy's biography, brilliant read.
TBS wrote:Hello Billy - I've enjoyed the books I've read so far this year -
Harry Redknapp - wasn't really a fan of him, but it's a great read, as is Alex Fergusons Leading. Howard Webbs book is really good & gives a decent perspective from the side of the officials & the divisions within the referees.
The best though was Curtis Woodhouses Box To Box about his football & boxing careers. Very honest & funny.
Jamie Vardys is good too.
arsene wengers coat wrote:I really like journeyman but its just a list of scores in the main with a few funny anecdotes along the way. Really easy read. Youll be done in a few days.
Secret footballer stories are excellent. The damned united is amazing, but if youve seen the film then no need to read.
A really great book that tops my list is My Father And Other Working Class Football Heroes by gary imlach, who is from west bridgford. Imlach is now itvs tour de france commentator and his dad was Stewart imlach.
It is sons perspective on his fathers unsuccessful career. Very well written. . Its as also an excellent social commentary about Nottingham in the 50s. I laughed out loud and almost cried.
Everyone should read this book.
Tippy Tappy Football wrote:One book I really enjoyed reading this year which had been on my shelf for years was "Tackling My Demons" by Stan Collymore. A very very honest account of a footballer with serious mental health problems, borderline personality disorder, depression, sex addict and a very unhealthy relationship with Ulrika Jonsson.
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