Book Review
Book Review: Charlton Athletic: A Pictorial History
Charlton Athletic: A Pictorial History by David C. Ramzan
Published by Amberley Publishing
2013, £14.99
In a fourth review dealing with the suite of books Amberley Publishing have devoted to the nation’s football clubs, we are pleased to welcome back Al Gordon, deviser of the blogs, God, Charlton and Punk Rock and Arsene Wenger’s Coat, to provide his thoughts on David C. Ramzan’s volume. If you want to …
Book Review: AFC Wimbledon: A Pictorial History
AFC Wimbledon: A Pictorial History by Graham Moody
Published by Amberley Publishing
2013, £14.49
The current incarnation of Wimbledon Football Club may not be the oldest in the League in the eyes of the great and the good, but the heroes currently holed up in Kingston represent a vital continuum with those of the club’s history. Hence, the past decade has been as momentous for the Dons as it …
Book Review: Grobar: Partizan Pleasure, Pain and Paranoia
Grobar: Partizan Pleasure, Pain and Paranoia by James Moor
Published by Pitch Publishing
2013, £12.99
The season long memoir has become a favoured format in the world of football writing in recent times and its apogee came with Tim Parks’ widely admired A Season with Verona. This new book from James Moor adopts the approach to cover one year in the life of Serbian giants Partizan Belgrade, admitting …
Book Review: From Graveyard to Ambition: The Official History of the Swansea City Supporters’ Trust
From Graveyard to Ambition by Phil Sumbler
Published by Amberley Publishing
2013, £12.99
Perhaps the most successful manifestation of supporter involvement in football ownership is the story of Swansea City who, despite some icky form of late, have enjoyed a quite ludicrous rise to prominence over the last decade while being held up as a poster child for all that is good in soccer governance. Here, Alex Quayle, an …
Book Review: Tales From The Secret Footballer
Tales from the Secret Footballer
Published by Guardian Books
November 2013, £7.99
The Secret Footballer columns run by The Guardian for three years or so now have been an entertaining sideshow to the usual Premier League spotlight but in recent months, interest in this cleverly nurtured phenomenon has dropped off a little – for there can be very little doubt now that the man in question is Dave Kitson.…