Suggested Reading List

[Sting-er]

Originally posted by Fulham9


Does anyone know if Sightlines has been published in the US? I have not been able to find anything about it.

Neither Amazon or Barnes & Noble had anything available on their site, but Amazon had someone selling a used copy for $35. Amazon's UK site www.amazon.co.uk has a paperback copy for #6.40. Even with shipping it would be less than the used one.

[TheMutts]

Originally posted by QPR Kevin H
Manchester United Ruined My Life - Colin Schindler

Among The Thugs - Bill Buford

Steaming In - Colin Ward

Faith of our Fathers - Alan Edge

My Favourite Year - Nick Hornby (ed)

Some can be found on Amazon - others on amazon.co.uk. "My Favourite Year" is a fantastic anthology of non-fic shorts from the best football writers in the UK. Essential in my opinion.


Whats Manchester United ruined my life life about? Sounds good.

[houndguy]

I didn't care for "Among the Thugs". Basically English people are arrogent. There I summed up the book.

Although the writer did become a soccer fan by the end of the book, so I guess it's not all bad.

[houndguy]

Originally posted by panicfc


Now a question: There was a book written about USL football by some English guy, anybody know this one?

I think you mean Unlucky - A season of struggle by Dave Ungrady, an American by the way.

Here's a link and a review

http://www.a-league.com/features/2002/fea,2002,0001.shtml

[prk166]

Originally posted by scoonie45
Fever Pitch is one of the finest books I've read. It turned me into an Arsenal fan- for better or worse. His other books are phenomenal, even though they have nothing to do with soccer.

Fever pitch is alright. I wouldn't go out of my way to read it nor avoid it.

[Dr. Wankler]

Originally posted by TheMutts



Whats Manchester United ruined my life life about? Sounds good.

I didn't see that someone else mentioned that one. You need to track that one down, Mutts. To save you the trouble, here's what I wrote about 10 posts back:

"Manchester United Ruined My Life by Colin Shindler. WARNING: this seriously disses Man U fans, as he's a City supporter. Also, there's a lot of references to cricket. And it's also a great book about growing up Jewish in post war England, and damn funny. And his treatment of the Munich air disaster in 1958 will bring tears (of sadness) to your eyes, too. "

Similar to Hornby, though where Hornby angsts about masculinity and football obsession, Shindler angsts about being Jewish and obsessing about Football and cricket. Still a great book in spite of the cricket stuff.

[Sachin]

Originally posted by scoonie45


Fever Pitch is one of the finest books I've read. It turned me into an Arsenal fan- for better or worse. His other books are phenomenal, even though they have nothing to do with soccer.

Fever Pitch has very little to do with soccer. It's a great book with a bunch of great soccer stories, but it's not a soccer book.

Sachin

[QPR Kevin H]

Originally posted by houndguy
I didn't care for "Among the Thugs". Basically English people are arrogent. There I summed up the book.
Are you referring to the author or the subjects? If the author, well, he's American. As for the subject matter - its clearly the best written investigation of the motivations behind football violence. At least I think so.

[pething101]

Originally posted by BuffloSoldier
The Glory Game, Hunter Davies.

Started this one today, so far so good.

[RichardL]

Originally posted by kmcgee01
I can't believe that Sightlines by Simon Inglis has not been mentioned in this forum.

Or any of his other books for that matter. What could easily have been dull, trivial books for the groundhopping anorak have all been well written and well worth a read.

[Real Ray]

http://football.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,9753,816297,00.html

This book about Bobby and Jack Charlton sounds more and more interesting-anyone read it?