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Has anyone read this book? I spent a few hours today sat out in the sun reading it and it's a brilliant read! Whoever it is, he's very intelligent and it's an eye opener what a professional footballer actually goes through off the pitch and what actually goes on within squads regarding politics.
Read it at Xmas and moved onto the Secret Football Agent.
Probably a good explanation of everything you hate about the modern game.
Bloke in the pub told me.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tonteg Bluebird wrote on Tue, 21 April 2015 23:09
Is there a chapter on your sort in there? http://www.ccmb.co.uk/images/smiley_icons/hehe.gifQuote:
Originally Posted by sidhooper7 wrote on Tue, 21 April 2015 23:15
Dave Kitson.
Yes the Secret Player despises all those who post on messageboards ....sad losers apparently.... but that was just you I think !!Quote:
Originally Posted by Barry Shitpeas wrote on Tue, 21 April 2015 23:45
I don't think Jimmy Bullard can say Jmimmy Bwllarde let alone write it.Quote:
Originally Posted by stevebrickman wrote on Tue, 21 April 2015 23:59
http://www.ccmb.co.uk/images/smiley_icons/shakehead.gif calling Trading Standards - now..Quote:
Originally Posted by sidhooper7 wrote on Wed, 22 April 2015 00:15
Whoever it is, it was an excellent read and gave more of an insight into the "real" game than virtually any other book by a footballer I've read.Quote:
Originally Posted by Vimana. wrote on Wed, 22 April 2015 00:18
The only football book I want to read is "Russell Slade,the day I left Cardiff City" !!
Can I pre-order it?Quote:
Originally Posted by ninian200 wrote on Wed, 22 April 2015 06:32
Just finished the book and I'm also convinced it's Dave Kitson.
It's obviously a striker as he dislikes John Terry and he talks about having a battle with him one game.
He talks about pulling his markers arm to get him off balance to gain an advantage at set pieces.
He always placed his arm on his markers shoulder to stop him jumping when flicking on a throw in, strongly suggesting he was a target man.
He began his career in the lower leagues and his Scandinavian team mate threw his clothes all over the floor. Cambridge had a Scandinavian in their team when Kitson joined them.
He reveals he was a club record signing. Stoke signed Dave Kitson for a club record 5.5 million.
He shared a room with a team mate who was a gambling addict - Matthew Etherington played with Kitson at Stoke.
He had a huge falling out with a manager - Tony Pulis at Stoke?
He played the opening game of the season at Old Trafford. Reading's opening game of the 2007/2008 season was at Old Trafford.
One of his team mates moved on a bosman to set himself up for life. Steve Sidwell joined Chelsea on a bosman.
He also makes a lot of references to Stoke's tactics and comments on the changing rooms at Portsmouth's Fratton Park - another one of Dave Kitson's previous clubs.
He makes references to Pink Floyd. On John Fendley's (Fenners) "Car-Eoke", Fenners asks Dave Kitson if there was one album he had to listen to for the rest of his life, what would it be? Kitson answers Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon.
Those are the main things I noticed in the book, but there is a lot more evidence on the forums to suggest it's definitely Dave Kitson. I don't read many books, but this was a fantastic read.
Very good books. I read all of them after Christmas - got the first as a present and then got hold of the others I was so hooked:
I Am The Secret Footballer (2012)
Tales From The Secret Footballer (2013)
The Secret Footballer - Guide To The Modern Game (2014)
There is supposed to be something similar in the pipeline from a football agent too - not just the odd chapters covered in the books above.
I didn't realise there were other books as well. I shall be ordering these! http://www.ccmb.co.uk/images/smiley_icons/thumbup.gifQuote:
Originally Posted by jon1959 wrote on Wed, 06 May 2015 19:35
Go to the Guardian Books club.
Currently selling the three as a bundle for £15 including P&P.
Got mine last week and will get started reading them shortly.
Kitson seems likely but I also expect that the ghostwriter speaks to other players and uses their stories on occasion.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tonteg Bluebird wrote on Wed, 06 May 2015 19:28
I reckon its peter crouch
I enjoyed the book but after giving it a second look I thought there was an undeserved smugness about the whole thing.Quote:
Originally Posted by the other bob wilson wrote on Wed, 22 April 2015 06:09
Yes, I read the first couple of chapters and realised it was a target man striker who started in the lower leagues and when Stoke's tactics got referred to quite a bit, I started thinking it could be Dave Kitson. I remember seeing Dave Kitson on Soccer AM years ago and he's a very articulate man, so he was always one of the possibilities on my mind. Pink Floyd gets mentioned in the last chapter of the book so after reading the book, I looked at Dave Kitson's Car-Eoke, where he reveals Dark Side of the Moon as his favourite album.Quote:
Originally Posted by lardy wrote on Thu, 07 May 2015 00:40
Hated being called Ginger though http://www.ccmb.co.uk/images/smiley_icons/hehe.gif