Football Book Review Thread
So Turf Wars then.
A great idea for a book but ultimately I think there's just too many clubs involved. Anyone attempting to write this book must first figure out their format and the authors opted for various eras as chapters IE between the wars, pre FL, the PL era etc etc.
Even doing this there's way too much jumping around to cram everyone in. A coherent narrative is nigh on impossible although the author does his best. It's not his fault that once he gets in his stride he has too change horses midstream to include another clubs goings on in that era. It'd been even harder if Watford were included.
Some great reminders included: Fergie shaking hands on the Spurs job, Dein wanting Sugar excluded from the PL vote, Noades shenanigans, Gregory wanting to buy out and amalgamate QPR with Fulham and Brentford etc etc.
To sum up: As good a book on the unwieldy subject that can be written I suppose. Well done.
So Turf Wars then.
A great idea for a book but ultimately I think there's just too many clubs involved. Anyone attempting to write this book must first figure out their format and the authors opted for various eras as chapters IE between the wars, pre FL, the PL era etc etc.
Even doing this there's way too much jumping around to cram everyone in. A coherent narrative is nigh on impossible although the author does his best. It's not his fault that once he gets in his stride he has too change horses midstream to include another clubs goings on in that era. It'd been even harder if Watford were included.
Some great reminders included: Fergie shaking hands on the Spurs job, Dein wanting Sugar excluded from the PL vote, Noades shenanigans, Gregory wanting to buy out and amalgamate QPR with Fulham and Brentford etc etc.
To sum up: As good a book on the unwieldy subject that can be written I suppose. Well done.
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