The A to Z of Football Hates by Richard C. Foster
Published by Amberley Publishing
2014, £11.69
A list will always get people talking and it’s not just online that Tops 10s and A to Zs are endlessly regurgitated and refashioned. There is a healthy appetite for such exercises in book form – from the offensive/amusing likes of Crap Towns, through the mildly diverting Is it me or is …
Once upon a time, earlier on in my real career in book publishing, I was present at some tense negotiations in which a nicotine moustachioed representative of the National Union of Journalists lost the room a bit with the old adage that ‘property is theft’.
At the time, our smooth operator of a company MD plunged his head into his hands, the look on his face something akin to …
For the second of our posts exploring the theme of football ownership, we are pleased to welcome Jon Keen, a long-standing supporter of Reading Football Club and founding member of STAR (the Supporters’ Trust at Reading). Jon is also a regular contributor to Reading blog, The Tilehurst End. Here, Jon unpacks the issue while asking the inevitable question of how it came to all this? Jon can be …
In the first of four divisional previews we focus today on who’s who in League 2, which once again looks set to be tight. The bookies are backing Bury, Luton, Portsmouth and Shrewbury - we think that they’ll each do well, but suggest that they’ll have plenty of competition, not least from Southend and York.
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AFC Wimbledon
It’s fair to say that the AFCW squad has more or …
Punk Football by Jim Keoghan
Published by Pitch Publishing
2014, £12.99
The rise of the supporter ownership model in England has been a slow and drawn out process in recent years and despite the wonderful coverage provided by When Saturday Comes and a host of websites, it has often been hard to step back and assess its progress.
Jim Keoghan, therefore, has done us all a massive service in …
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Winch: An enjoyable read. I'm not sure they bring back any good memories, but...
