Mar 27, 2022 | The Main Blog
There’s so much great football writing now that no reader, however voracious, can possibly read – or even know about – everything that’s out there. So it was with this week’s Reading The Game review. I won a copy of Forgotten Nations by Chris Deeley in a...
Mar 25, 2022 | The Main Blog
This week’s instalment of Reading the Game is The Accidental Footballer by Pat Nevin. If you’ve been following the series, you’ll have already noticed that The Accidental Footballer is a bit of an outlier because it’s an autobiography, which isn’t the kind of football...
Mar 18, 2022 | The Main Blog
If there’s any sort of theme to the books I’ve reviewed in the Reading the Game, it’s that I look for the stories that don’t necessarily make the headlines. Even where I’ve chosen to read about a ‘big’ club, I’ve been much more likely to either avoid the ‘super clubs’...
Feb 25, 2022 | The Main Blog
Spend a reasonable amount of time on this site and you’ll know that non-League football is something I’m incredibly passionate about, alongside my special interest in the game all over the world. However, like many football fans, I do also follow a professional club...
Feb 17, 2022 | The Main Blog
For the second time, Reading the Game marks a Champions League match week by exploring the history of the European Cup and specifically The Undisputed Champions of Europe by Steven Scragg. To be honest, it feels a bit odd that the final book of Scragg’s trilogy...
Feb 12, 2022 | The Main Blog
Last week, Reading the Game went Down Under as we examined a history of Australia’s National Soccer League. Continuing the international theme, today we look at Titans of the Teardrop Isle by Seth Burkett. I came to Titans of the Teardrop Isle with a certain knowledge...
