May 14, 2022 | The Main Blog
To celebrate FA Cup Final day, my next Reading the Game book review is The Cup by Richard Whitehead. Released in March with the subtitle “A Pictorial Celebration of the World’s Greatest Football Tournament”, The Cup attempts to shine a light on the 150-year...
May 9, 2022 | The Main Blog
This is a special Reading the Game to coincide with the anniversary of a seismic, but often overlooked moment in the history of the England Men’s Football Team. The book I’m reviewing is The Wanderer: The Story of Frank Soo by Susan Gardiner. Frank Soo made his...
Apr 3, 2022 | The Main Blog
This week’s Reading the Game book review is of a book I discovered via Twitter; Scotland’s Lost Clubs by Jeff Webb. The microblogging site is often a bit of a binfire – especially when it comes to football – but sometimes, it is brilliant. Here’s an example: I wasn’t...
Mar 31, 2022 | The Main Blog
Over the recent international break, I’ve been reading Beautiful Bridesmaids Dressed in Oranje by Gary Thacker. As I’ve just finished it, it seems sensible to add it to the Reading the Game library while it’s topical! Beautiful Bridesmaids Dressed in Oranje is...
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...
