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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It’s that time of the season again – the Nationwide Football Annual is out
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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