Real Madrid and all that.

[the other bob wilson]

My thanks to everyone who has bought the book - I think FLL has a point about players playing through the pain so to speak. There's that amazing stat about the same starting eleven being selected for the first thirteen matches until after the notorious Middlesbrough game in early October - I've just had a quick count up, and I make that we only used eighteen players during what I think was a fifty eight match season.

[splott parker]

Seeing as this is a football book thread, I hope nobody minds me recommending books by another author, Daniel Gray. He’s written a few, they’re books that you can dip in and out of identifying all the little things that characterise a football fan, each chapter covering a different idiosyncrasy that people like us will instantly recognise. I’ve just finished ‘Extra Time, 50 Further Delights of Modern Football’, I’ll give a brief summary of the type of content in each short chapter.. ‘Spotting a ground while on holiday’.. The chapter starts with words which, no doubt, many of us have uttered, “Honestly, I didn’t know it was there, but we might as well have a quick look now we’re here”, Even with no connection, there is veneration if a football ground is encountered while you’re on holiday, you have to peer through fence gaps for a glimpse of turf or a tractor, an old ticket stub that you even think about taking home, a charred memento...... and so it continues, every chapter a delight. Get hold of Paul’s book, Dudder’s book and few of Daniel Gray’s by hook or by crook, you won’t regret it.

[the other bob wilson]

Seeing as this is a football book thread, I hope nobody minds me recommending books by another author, Daniel Gray. He’s written a few, they’re books that you can dip in and out of identifying all the little things that characterise a football fan, each chapter to Fcovering a different idiosyncrasy that people like us will instantly recognise. I’ve just finished ‘Extra Time, 50 Further Delights of Modern Football’, I’ll give a brief summary of the type of content in each short chapter.. ‘Spotting a ground while on holiday’.. The chapter starts with words which, no doubt, many of us have uttered, “Honestly, I didn’t know it was there, but we might as well have a quick look now we’re here”, Even with no connection, there is veneration if a football ground is encountered while you’re on holiday, you have to peer through fence gaps for a glimpse of turf or a tractor, an old ticket stub that you even think about taking home, a charred memento...... and so it continues, every chapter a delight. Get hold of Paul’s book, Dudder’s book and few of Daniel Gray’s by hook or by crook, you won’t regret it.

Well, that brought back memories! A family camping holiday in the Gower where we drove past a football pitch and I insisted we had to stop and have a kick about there because the goals had NETS, an almost unique luxury in those days for what was no more than a parks pitch. A few years earlier there’d been a holiday to the Isle of Wight which was fine, but I came back slightly disappointed that I had not come across a football ground- I later learned that there was a decent side at Newport (the one town on the island we didn’t visit) that had played in the old Southern League. Then my first holiday with mates on the Norfolk Broads when we went to Great Yarmouth for a day. I’d taken a book about non league grounds with me, so I knew the address of the local football club (nicknamed the Bloaters) and made up some lie to get me a free hour to go to have a look at Great Yarmouth Town’s ground. We were all big football fans, but the other three who were with me would have thought I was mad if they had found out what I was doing = it was worth it though, the ground turned out to be well worth the subterfuge!

[Park Life]

Seeing as this is a football book thread, I hope nobody minds me recommending books by another author, Daniel Gray. He’s written a few, they’re books that you can dip in and out of identifying all the little things that characterise a football fan, each chapter covering a different idiosyncrasy that people like us will instantly recognise. I’ve just finished ‘Extra Time, 50 Further Delights of Modern Football’, I’ll give a brief summary of the type of content in each short chapter.. ‘Spotting a ground while on holiday’.. The chapter starts with words which, no doubt, many of us have uttered, “Honestly, I didn’t know it was there, but we might as well have a quick look now we’re here”, Even with no connection, there is veneration if a football ground is encountered while you’re on holiday, you have to peer through fence gaps for a glimpse of turf or a tractor, an old ticket stub that you even think about taking home, a charred memento...... and so it continues, every chapter a delight. Get hold of Paul’s book, Dudder’s book and few of Daniel Gray’s by hook or by crook, you won’t regret it.

I wasn’t aware of the Llantwit Major book, it looks great. Agreed get hold of Paul’s book and any of Daniel Gray’s and if I could be so bold if you have played local football and enjoyed a pint after the game you might enjoy this one :

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Park-Life-S...s=books&sr=1-3