Another year, another Nationwide Football Annual, reviewed by ERIC BROWN Now the football season can really start. That one missing item to go along w…
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The Great Romantic: Cardus book a must for aspiring sports journalists
By ERIC BROWN He was born illegitimate in a Manchester slum and never knew his father. His mother and aunt worked in a family laundry business by day …
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Avalanche of f-words take away from all that’s good in fans’ site, The Anfield Wrap
ERIC BROWN reviews a book which focuses on one of the most eventful years in the history of Liverpool FC from defeat in Kyiv to glory in Madrid. For t…
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Book review: celebrating half a century of Shoot magazine
Nostalgia rules as ERIC BROWN reviews a new birthday book celebrating 50 years of one of football’s most iconic magazines. It’s August 16,…
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Cricket and cake… when everything stops for tea
Strawberries, sponge cake or ice cream; a new book on cricket teas is reviewed by former club cricketer ERIC BROWN. Anyone who has dipped a white-boot…
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Dark days to Premier League champions – Manchester City’s roller-coaster
By ERIC BROWN Manchester City fans have come to expect goals galore and trophies a-plenty as the club sheikhs, rattles and rolls its way forward with …
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My way: how Welshman John Toshack missed out on his dream job
John Toshack was one of the giants of European football so it was something of a shock to learn that a new book is his first autobiography. It is revi…
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How England’s 2018 World Cup penalty heroes laid the ghost of G O Smith to rest
England and penalties. We have history, as a new book on the national team reveals. ERIC BROWN reports. The year was 1899 and a quarter of the world s…
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Everything you ever wanted to know about Arsenal from 1886-2018
A monumental new history of Arsenal including details of the glory years under Herbert Chapman, George Graham and Arsene Wenger as well as reflecting …
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Tortured life of former Liverpool star John Arne Riise
John Arne Riise describes his schoolboy torture, personal heartbreak and sparkling football career in a brutally honest and revealing autobiography re…
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