Manchester City’s official illustrated history has been published to celebrate the club’s 125th anniversary but they seem to have missed out someo…
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Category: Books and reviews
Mike Ingham MBE looks back at amazing career with a special mention for SJA Doug Gardner award
Mike Ingham, for many years the voice of football on BBC radio, has written his autobiography, reviewed by ANTON RIPPON. On 29 May 1985, Mike Ingham w…
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How Steve Bloomer survived a WW1 prison camp – the real escape to victory
By ANTON RIPPON Steve Bloomer was football’s first super star. He scored a record number of goals for England, endorsed football kit i…
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The club that Jack built – how Blackburn won the title thanks to rich super fan
A new book which traces Jack Walker’s galvanising effect on modest second division outfit Blackburn Rovers in the early 1990s is reviewed by ERI…
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Singing winger Grainger shared billing with the Beatles and played against Brazil
By Eric Brown Colin Grainger shared dressing rooms with Stanley Matthews and the Beatles, scored on his England debut against Brazil and counted film …
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Hamilton wins £30,000 William Hill prize for record third time
By Anton Rippon Judges were ‘bowled over’ by Duncan Hamilton’s biography of Neville Cardus that has won for the freelance sportswriter a record-…
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Four decades on and Clive Allen still looking for answers to Arsenal transfer riddle
By ERIC BROWN It was, perhaps, football’s greatest mystery. Why did Arsenal make striker Clive Allen the first £1million teenager in English fo…
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Stick to swimming…how Per Mertesacker overcame the odds to become a world cup winner
Book review by ERIC BROWN Per Mertesacker was told he had no chance of becoming a professional footballer by his own father at the age of 14, ye…
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How Manchester-born pools millionaire John Moores transformed the fortunes of Everton FC
Everton’s rise to challenge the top clubs of the 1960s is traced and explored in a new history reviewed by ERIC BROWN. The late 1950s represente…
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McRae and Hamilton head William Hill shortlist aiming for record third win
By Anton Rippon The Guardian’s Donald McRae and freelance sports writer Duncan Hamilton have again entered the ring for the 31st William Hill Sports…
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