Sep 11, 2021 | The Main Blog
This week, I’m looking at one of the most remarkable football clubs featured in Reading the Game to date. I’m talking about AFC Wimbledon, the fan-owned football club formed in response to the relocation of Wimbledon FC to Milton Keynes and specifically about All...
Sep 3, 2021 | The Main Blog
For my latest Reading The Game, I’ve tried to be topical. I’ve published this blog on the weekend of the First Qualifying Round of The FA Cup which, despite its name, is actually the third stage of the competition. The book I’m looking at is FA Cup 150, by Phil...
May 23, 2021 | The Main Blog
Over the last six months, I’ve reviewed 13 football books and read others which I haven’t covered here. I’ve read a fair bit about other subjects too, so I suppose if I can take anything positive from the most recent restrictions, it’s that I’m reading in a way I...
May 15, 2021 | The Main Blog
After last week’s review of The Billionaires Club, I was in need of a change. Having read that, Wings of Change and Champagne Football in quick succession, I was getting a little jaded. All three books are excellent, but a little depressing for football romantics, or...
May 3, 2021 | The Main Blog
When the Super League proposals came to light recently, a lot of the information seemed familiar. Then, I remembered why and re-read a book that I’d previously enjoyed. The Billionaires Club by James Montague examines the changes in football club ownership and the...
Apr 22, 2021 | The Main Blog
It’s been quite a week for fans of European football, thanks to the Super League fiasco. I can’t work out whether the fact that I’d already planned to review a book about the business of football before that story broke was prescient or predictable… The Super League...
Apr 18, 2021 | The Main Blog
For some fans, watching football just isn’t enough; there has to be an element of adventure to it, perhaps even some minor peril. This, I guess, partly explains the popularity of ‘the Road to Wembley’, a challenge where a football fan selects a tie in the...
Apr 7, 2021 | The Main Blog
I’ve always been fascinated by books covering one or both of the politics of football or the business side of the game. Maybe it’s because I’ve volunteered for non-League clubs since I was 10, or maybe it’s because I worked for a County FA for five years. Whatever the...
Mar 10, 2021 | The Main Blog
Since Christmas, I’ve been reading the various football books I was given as gifts, then reviewing them. This week, I’m casting my eye over Who Are Ya?: 92 Football Clubs and Why You Shouldn’t Support Them by Kevin Day. This is a bit of a change of pace for me; so far...
Mar 3, 2021 | The Main Blog
Because I’ve not finished the book I’m reading at the moment (of which more next week), this episode of Reading the Game goes back in time, to the book which was right at the top of my Christmas List. The Farther Corner by Harry Pearson was the one title I was...
