Best Football Book?

**Irish Fan** · 19/12/2006, 1:56 PM

Seen a topic about this on the Rovers Mb just taught id bring it up for people in this forum.
What is the best football book out there these days?????

My personal favourites are : Gazzas Autobiography, Keanes Auto, Football Against The Enemy & The Miracle of Castel Di Sangro.A few people on there site saying the Morbo is a great book anybody know were to get it??

**JW.** · 19/12/2006, 2:02 PM

There's Only One Red Army.
Still.

**Dodge** · 19/12/2006, 2:07 PM

Morbo available in Easons anyway.

Football Against the Enemy and Calcio are the best two I've read.

**wws** · 19/12/2006, 2:09 PM

id say you'd get morbo in any highstreet bookshop

**jebus** · 19/12/2006, 2:09 PM

Season With Verona by Tim Parks is hands down the best football book ever written, trust me on that one and go out and buy it

**Dodge** · 19/12/2006, 2:11 PM

Originally Posted by jebus

Season With Verona by Tim Parks is hands down the best football book ever written, trust me on that one and go out and buy it

Good book but wouldn't get in my top three.

**WeAreRovers** · 19/12/2006, 2:28 PM

This year - Calcio by John Foot and My Father and Other Working Class Heroes by Gary Imlach. And if you're feeling flush, this beauty -

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Match-Day-Pr.../dp/0955006147

BTW DO NOT under any circumstances buy Paddy Agnew's dross Forzis Italia. Terrible, terrible book - anti-Rome and anti-Tifosi. Idiot.

KOH

**jebus** · 19/12/2006, 2:32 PM

Originally Posted by WeAreRovers

BTW DO NOT under any circumstances buy Paddy Agnew's dross Forzis Italia. Terrible, terrible book - anti-Rome and anti-Tifosi. Idiot.

It's too late for me on that one, read the first few chapters and threw it away in disgust, I mean the guy only got into football properly in his 40s for ****'s sake, hasn't a ****ing clue about the game.

**Dodge** · 19/12/2006, 2:35 PM

3rd book would be the Gary Imlach book. Dunphy's book is good too

**JW.** · 19/12/2006, 2:38 PM

Frankly Speaking is a sedate read if that's your fancy!

**wws** · 19/12/2006, 2:44 PM

some classics of the genre if I may......

It's all about a ball: An autobiography
by Alan Ball

Captain Fantastic
where Mick McCarthy sums up his time in French Football in one paragraph

The Paul McGrath book is utter crud but if you're a ManYou fan you should hunt down Andy Mittens latest offering

**Ozymandias** · 19/12/2006, 2:53 PM

who stole our game

**DaveyCakes** · 19/12/2006, 2:53 PM

I like Tor! (about German football).

I thought Mobo was a bit dull, and the Miracle of Castel di Sangro is appalling

**Paraic** · 19/12/2006, 2:56 PM

Originally Posted by WeAreRovers

BTW DO NOT under any circumstances buy Paddy Agnew's dross Forzis Italia. Terrible, terrible book - anti-Rome and anti-Tifosi. Idiot.

KOH

too late - just bought it for my Dad for Christmas

not sure about top three, but some I've really enjoyed include

Matt Busby biog by Dunphy

Football Factory by John King - much better than the film, although it is fiction

Only one red army - Eamonn Sweeney

Fever Pitch - Nick Hornby predictable for a top five, but the parts of the book when he was following Cambridge United were classic

Apparently Niall Quinn's book was very good - havn't got round to it yet

I'm reading the McGrath one at the minute and must say I'm enjoying (is that the right word ?) it.

**wws** · 19/12/2006, 2:59 PM

I've got Michael Owen's autobiog, A Game of my Owen, for a present last christmas....

haven't touched it...

**Dodge** · 19/12/2006, 3:01 PM

Originally Posted by wws

I've got Michael Owen's autobiog, A Game of my Owen, for a present last christmas....

haven't touched it...

Took pride of place in your old living room too.

**WeAreRovers** · 19/12/2006, 3:02 PM

Originally Posted by Paraic

too late - just bought it for my Dad for Christmas

Bring it back and swap it for Calcio. Your dad already knows more about Italian football and Italian culture than Agnew will ever know. How a man can spend 20 years in a country and completely miss the point is beyond me. Then again he's a Milanista....

KOH

**Mr A** · 19/12/2006, 3:13 PM

BTW DO NOT under any circumstances buy Paddy Agnew's dross Forzis Italia. Terrible, terrible book - anti-Rome and anti-Tifosi. Idiot.

I wouldn't agree with that. I thought it ok, not brilliant, but ok.

Tim Park's is still the best for me, although Only a Game by Dunphy was good too. The miracle of Castel di Sangro was pretty good, as was the strings of my Harps by Patsy McGowan. The latter gets very bitter towards the end though.

**CharlesThompson** · 19/12/2006, 3:25 PM

1. Football against the enemy
2. Hand of God
3. Tony Cascarino's autobiography

**GuisaSaigon** · 19/12/2006, 3:25 PM

Tony Adams - Addicted was a good read , better than the usual english football autbiography drivel, Steaming in was ok, im reading Who stole our game at the moment , despite hardly mentioning football outside dublin, its holding my attention. Theres only one red army has to be the most enjoyable football book i've read. if you are a football fan theres no way you cant relate to it.