ANOTHER Well Read.
Well, it makes 2 anyway.
The three books are crackers this month, all discussed influenced by events in a sense. All have current talking points attached.
Living On The Volcano by Michael Calvin
A Life Too Short by Ronald Reng
The Damned United by David Peace
As before Gerry Donaldson, Jon Birchall and Simon Hughes guide you and Neil Atkinson through a terrific conversation about each of these books.
Thanks for that, nice low key show, I actually needed to hear someone not talk about Klopp in a podcast, as I may have overdosed a bit. Now do us the favour though of providing the names of authors and titles of the books you mentioned as next reads, so we can get one or two under the belt before the next show.
love this show – a reflective interlude amidst all the agony and ecstasy – hope we don’t have to wait too long for the next one
That was a welcome interlude in a week that could very well go down in club history , successful or otherwise. I had a vivid recollection of a visit to Elland road in the seventies, where the gallop back to the station was accompanied by a hail of rocks and bottles. Truly an awful venue. My father was a huge admirer of Brian Clough, he was a phenomenal goalscorer and could have been an England great. He had walked the walk and as my dad would say and was confident in the notion that he was a better player than those he managed. I consider he and Jock Stein as the first true visionaries, taking a leaf from Alf Ramsey, another man who created a first rate team at Ipswich with little or no support from the board. Too few managers these days seem to be able to inspire players, though I feel our new man may be cut from rare cloth. Thanks again, look forward to the next one.
What was the name of the last book mentioned for the next show? I got the first two but couldn’t catch the name of the third
The fiction book next time (next week, in fact, because it had to go back in the queue), is How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won the FA Cup by JL Carr. Best spoiler title ever?
Also coming up are My Father and Other Working Class Heroes (Gary Imlach), Football Against the Enemy (Simon Kuper) Heartland (Anthony Cartwright)
Really enjoyed that, good listen, will check out A life too short. A footy book I’m looking at getting is Andrew Jennings book on FIFA.
http://www.amazon.com/Dirty-Game-Uncovering-Scandal-FIFA-ebook/dp/B0141TWLZM/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1444829032&sr=1-2
Thought the discussion around how people always refer back to the money was interesting. Often I think it’s linked to the rope players and managers get in public life. Two examples Terry gets a lot of rope from the footy press and we always have to hear “If we talk about him as a footballer…..” (instead of a human being) and then we hear all the superlatives around that which then often get transferred back onto him as a character.
The other example Gary Lineker tweeting that he thought the Thai owners were mad and it was ridiculous to sack Pearson after this son was found filming a racist sex tape in Thailand. Lets remove the football out for a second. Sex tourism and Racism are both criminal offences, combining the two in a sex tape is probably jail time in Thailand.
Sorry 3rd example Chelsea as far as I know pay the Living wage which is utterly despicable considering the money in the game.
So whilst I thought the comments were right about how people always refer back to the money some of these people are on and how that view can be distorted there are plenty of examples to illustrate how the game and the people in the game are out of kilter with the rest of society.
Only Steve Bruce came out last season to voice his concerns over ticket prices at games as far as I’m aware the rest of the game is happy with the status quo. What with the average lifespan of a manger being 8-18 months (ridiculous, how can you ever create stability) then they, like the game itself, is everyman for themselves to max their income whilst they can.
With £8bn coming into the premiership the country should have some of the best sporting facilities across Europe and if wages have to be capped at £150K a week to provide them and living wages for everyone in the game then so be it.
Great show. I’m always on the lookout for good books to read