Jan 22, 2024 | The Main Blog
Every so often, a book just connects with me on multiple levels. A Love Letter to Football by Mark Davies was a Christmas gift which was just such a title and could turn out to be one of the best things I read in 2024. Yes, I know it’s only January. A Love Letter to...
Dec 31, 2023 | The Main Blog
Happy New Year! Have you made any resolutions? In 2023, one of mine was ‘to read more’, partly because I’d started an MA in Creative Writing with the Open University and our Tutor was fiercely passionate about reading as widely and deeply as possible. It would make us...
Oct 23, 2023 | The Main Blog
After blogging about my favourite football books regularly during 2021 and 2022, I put the Reading the Game series on semi-permanent hiatus, but there are certain football books for which an exception should be made. The second volume of memoir by Pat Nevin, Football...
Jul 14, 2023 | The Main Blog
It’s a long time since I’ve reviewed a football book; going back to University changed my reading habits and meant that the writing time available to me was spent working on assignments. But, with the World Cup on the horizon and a summer break from my studies, I’ve...
Sep 10, 2022 | The Main Blog
A few weeks ago, I reviewed A Woman’s Game by Suzanne Wrack. It was one of two books about women’s football received from When Saturday Comes at the same time; the other was Football, She Wrote, an anthology of writing from a mixture of new and experienced female...
