Book Review
Book Review: The Smell of Football
The Smell of Football by Mick ‘Baz’ Rathbone
Published by Vision Sports Publishing
July 2011, £12.99
ISBN: 978-1907637148
I have a regular correspondent who likes to talk football. A Liverpool die-hard, man of Shrewsbury, our exchanges normally concern the current wiles of his personal idol, Rafael Benitez, or his affection for his hometown ‘Salop!’ boys and our shared whimsy for the Midlands club born of our bonding over mutual appreciation …
Book Review: The Very Best of Pitch Invasion
The Very Best of Pitch Invasion edited by Tom Dunmore
Published by Pitch Invasion Press
December 2011, $5.99
ISBN: 978-0615546834
Recent weeks have seemed pivotal ones for the football blogosphere. Three prominent general blogs, Les Rosbifs, European Football Weekends and The Equaliser have all decided to call it a day while pioneering club websites Viva Rovers and Boy from Brazil have also stepped aside; the circumstances behind the latter …
Book Review: Sport Italia
Sport Italia by Simon Martin
Published by I. B. Tauris
August 2011, £22.50,
ISBN: 9781845118204
If anyone had any doubt about sport’s ability to warp society, Simon Martin’s sumptuous Sport Italia will leave them without arguments. A nation, remember, only since 1861; Italy has survived its first one and a half centuries by following the path described in Benedict Anderson’s influential book, Imagined Communities – and sport has played an …
Book Review: Graduation
Our latest book review comes from Tom Bodell, editor of Vital Watford. Tom can be followed on Twitter at @TBBodell and here casts his eye on the autobiography of Richard Lee, one time Hornet and now a Bee.
Graduation: Life Lessons of a Professional Footballer By Richard Lee
Published by Bennion Kearny
August 2010, £9.99,
ISBN: 978-0-9570511-2-6
Brentford custodian Richard Lee is not the kind of footballer you would …
Book Review: The Manager
Here, in the latest of our book reviews, Ben Summers takes a look at Barney Ronay’s The Manager, a book which surely deserves more than its two current stars on Amazon.
The Manager: The Absurd Ascent of the Most Important Man in Football
By Barney Ronay
Published by Sphere
August 2010, £8.99, ISBN: 9780751542790
This book’s incongruous appearance in Fabio Capello’s 2010 World Cup luggage leant it a curious …