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Football Book Recommendations

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Faith of Our Families - Corbett

Dixie Uncut - the lost interview

From Ringsend to Tallaght - the Shamrock Rovers Players' Stories. Includes a Chapter on Mick Meagan sadly now passed.

Published 2021 so too late for Peter Farrell, and Tommy Eglinton.

Great insights in the words of over 50 players who were interviewed as far back as 2003.
 
A recent one i read to add to the thread was " We Play On" by Andy Brassell.

A decent read covering about the last 15 years or so of the Shaktar Donetsk story, so as you can guess with whats happened in that part of the world since 2014, a lot of the book isnt actually about football. Quite a sad read tbh but amazing what that club did to keep going.
 
bluenosedave said:
A recent one i read to add to the thread was " We Play On" by Andy Brassell.

A decent read covering about the last 15 years or so of the Shaktar Donetsk story, so as you can guess with whats happened in that part of the world since 2014, a lot of the book isnt actually about football. Quite a sad read tbh but amazing what that club did to keep going.
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Might grab that one, sounds like it would be an interesting read.
 
"The Far Corner" by Harry Pearson (who writes for the When Saturday Comes magazine) is an interesting and humorous look at north east football on and off the pitch during the 93-4 season, he writes about all the matches he went to whether it be at Newcastle United or Blyth Spartans. 25 years on from that he wrote a sequel called "The Farther Corner" along the same lines, another one of his that's well worth reading. "Morbo - the story of Spanish football" by Phil Ball and "The Glory Game" by Hunter Davies (mentioned earlier in thread) are also brilliant books. I don't know if it's over familiarity with Everton after nearly 50 years of support (or maybe I'm just sick of them now!!) but I've never really been that interested in books about my own club, at least not in the modern era, though I do like reading about the club's earlier history. One book I'll have to get around to reading is "The Prince of Centre Halves" which came out a couple of years ago about T. G. Jones.
 
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Although he's not everyone's cup of tea, I liked the Stan Collymore one, very open and honest. I think it's imaginatively called Colly !
Also Robin Friday's The Greatest Footballer You Never Saw is very good.
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Yes, the Robin Friday one was very good. Everton get a mention in it too, apparently we were his favourite team when he was growing up!
 

Martin O'Neill - On Days Like These.
Incredible playing and managing career. He might have been a good fit for Everton. Maybe not.
Anyway, it's well written and full of good stories, several about the highs and lows of working with Clough and Taylor.
 
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Soccernomics and The numbers game are good football books from an numbers point of view.

The Everton Encyclopaedia has a special place in my heart as I got it signed by Howard Kendall shortly before his death.

And Neville Southall: The Binman Chronicles is also a good read.
 

Preki said:
I like Italian football so:
The miracle of Castle di Sangro by Joe McGuiness is outstanding.
I've recommended it to lots of people and they have all loved it.
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More generally Inverting the pyramid by Johnathan Wilson is about tactics nominally but is an insight into lots of football cultures.
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These two books about two very different ends of football are incredible. Highly recommended.

The miracle of castle di sangro is one of those where you look at it and think "eh" but very quickly it sucks you in. Crazy story.

Inverting the pyramid is another great, albeit heavier read. I still know nowt about football after reading it, mind.
 
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I got given Leon Osman's book a few years ago as a xmas present, still haven’t bothered with it.
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And this gets my rec as the most bland book. There's a bit where he's talking about the fish he has at home and that was the point where I said to myself "the frig am I doing reading this"

Save for some interesting tidbits about Arteta and a couple of other players it's a dull read.
 

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