Book Review
Book Reviews Week: The Away End
The Away End by Dean Mansell
Published by CreateSpace
June 2012 £6.95
ISBN: 978-1477654262
Our Book Reviews Week draws to a close with regular contributor Craig Telfer providing his thoughts on a book brought to us by Chesterfield fan and blogger Dean Mansell along with a preface from that doyen of Yorkshire and North Derbsyhire football correspondents, Alan Biggs. Dean can be followed on twitter at @awayend.
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Book reviews Week: Moneyball
Moneyball by Michael Lewis
Published by W. W. Norton
2004, £9.99
ISBN: 978-0-393-05765-2
Unless you’ve spent the last year living under a rock or in Andy Carroll’s armpit, you’re sure to have heard of Moneyball. Either you’ve read the seminal Michael Lewis book, seen the Brad Pitt film adaptation, or read one of the torrent of blogs, articles, and sundry internet scoffings about the statistics based system developed by …
Book Reviews Week: A Life Too Short
A Life Too Short: The Tragedy of Robert Enke by Ronald Reng
Published by Yellow Jersey
2011, £8.99
ISBN: 9780224091664
Like all the best sports books, Ronald Reng’s A Life Too Short is about so much more than sport. The biography of Robert Enke, the German goalkeeper who committed suicide in 2009, it is a quiet yet powerful tribute to a young man ripped apart by clinical depression. Football is …
Book Reviews Week: 50 Teams that Mattered
50 Teams that Mattered by David Hartrick
Published by Ockley Books
July 2011, £13.99 (eBook: £7.99)
Fortunes for football blogging have been immensely fluid over the past 12 months or so. While a number of excellent platforms have finally called it a day, other writers have branched out to mainstream media and publications like The Blizzard, while the predicted emergence of ‘megablogs’ featuring a range of the internet’s best …
Book Review: The Far Corner
The Far Corner: A Mazy Dribble through North-East Football by Harry Pearson
Published by Little, Brown and Company
October 1994
ISBN: 978-0-316-91189-4
Harry Pearson is a Billy Bragg lookalike and Guardian journalist with the misfortune to have been born in a village near Middlesbrough called Great Ayrton, whose most well-known son is the explorer Captain James Cook. Thankfully, he’s also got a sense of humour about it: “It’s quite …