Mine would have to be, in anyorder; Congratulations You Have Just Met The I.C.F- Cass Pennant Mr.Classic, Jeremy Hackett- Jeremy Hackett and some other bloke. Sh*t Ground, No fans, terrace chants and anthems-?? MIG DOWN- Tommy "the TW*T" Robbinson The Football Factory(better than the film by far) - John King| | Headhunters - John King |TRILOGY | England Away - John King | Kicking Off- Dougie Brimson(even though he talks absoloute boll sacks this book is a good read) Among the Thugs - Bill Buford Faith of our Fathers -?? 1 for luck HOOLIFAN-??? anyone else
I suppose he's not really 'promoting' football violence because no-one would want to be like crazylegz(unnecessary apostrophe)back again. More like aversion therapy I reckon.
ok no they don't have to football related or football violence related i am just saying my top ten books, at least i read ffs, and no im not promoting football violence i am saying my favrouite books, headhunters has nothing to do with football violenc really neither does the book about jeremy hackett nor the one about chants grow up and stop trying to be sarcy. david newton dan brown books are alrite for some don't prefer them myself lord of the rings is a good read!
When I was at school my top ten favourites were; Wind in the Willows by Russell Ingleaves Sherlock Holmes Does it Again by Scott Linyard The Scent of a Man by Jim Nasium The French Chef by Sue Flay I Lived in L*t*n by Helen Earth Irish Flooring by Lynn O'Leum Look 10 Years Younger by Fay Slift Mountain Climbing by Andover Hand No! by Kurt Reply Glass Bikini by Seymore Skynn But my current favourite has to be; Is s e x with animals Always wrong? by PYA
Don't read many but the first 3 in the 5 of the innaccurately titled Hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy trilogy. The Dirk Gently books Douglas Adams also wrote are very good.
Not a heavy reader myself but i got "Is it me or is everything just sh*t" volumes 1 and 2 for chrimbo. Still reading volume 1, it's rather funny.
i'm a big fan of Gabriel García Márquez. '100 years of solitude' and 'love and death in the time of cholera' are good books.
Ian Ridley's book on his time as Weymouth FC chairman is a pretty good read. Especially now when Weymouth are in all sorts of financial trouble, what he says in his book has come true! http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/w/weymouth/6249077.stm
Not sure if i can think of 10 but Red army general Ultimate hard *******s Hitmen Fever Pitch Gangs Roy Keane Autobiography Along came a Spider A Child called It (think thats what its called, sequel is called "A lost boy" and theres a third called "a man called dave"- by David Pelzer or something) All i can think of, no particular order but the Red army General one was good, about Man Utd guy.
Anything by Tom Clancy, Dan Brown, Andy McNabb or Jack Higgins gets my vote. Very few bad books between them. Other than that I'm a bit political in my reading.
When I used to help dyslexic children with their reading one was reading that one, 'A Man Called Dave' (?) it was very gripping, yet at the same time a very sad and depressing story, I would recommend it. I'm also enjoying the new Tom Clancy books
These books about miserable childhoods like the 3 x Dave books and the Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes and others make me feel like my parents deprived me of a nice little earner. As Tolstoy says at the beginning of Anna Karenina 'All happy families are the same,' no-one wants to read about them.???
my top 5 the da vinci code - dan brown policemans progress - harry cole (dunno where it came from funny as F**K tho) lord of the rings 30 years of hurt - andy nicholls mig down - tommy robinson (shows how scumy luton realy are)
yea gives the other side from what we all see on tv i don't see the problem with football violence related books, they are the same as reading books about other crimes. that side of football is a intresting read because i am sure everyone following football has encounterd some sort of violence in or away from the ground. even if people don't like it football in this country will always be connected to trouble
Agreed, i don't know much about football violence and the history of it but i know that everything the media reports is usually terribly inaccurate and written to make the english to look like the bad guys.
Peter kays book is a good read , im currently reading derrwn browns trick of the mind which is also very good.
the only books i've ever read outside of school is roy keanes autobiography, diego maradona's and a book on ryanair and micheal o leary. all very good.
John King who wrote the Football Factory trilogy (nothing like the film, more to do with the social background of them) had done some good books. I have just read the Prison House by him, which is a good read. I also like a book called Powder by Kevin Sampson (former manager of the farm) which is set in the brit pop era and is about an indie band making it big. I do not read a lot to be honest, only seem to read books recovering on holidays, and i find the Andy McNabb books are also a good read and autobigraphies such as Gazzas, Brian Clough and Stanley Matthews
