Aug 4, 2022 | The Main Blog
After a summer break (from reviewing, not reading), I’m pleased to continue the Reading the Game series with a look at A Woman’s Game by Suzanne Wrack. Only published in June, by Guardian Faber, this history of women’s football in the UK and beyond is timely and not...
May 22, 2022 | The Main Blog
One of the biggest football stories this week has been Rangers’ attempts to secure Cup glory on both European and domestic fronts, so it is fitting that I’ve been reading about another Glasgow club, whose closure remains shocking half a century after it happened. The...
May 14, 2022 | The Main Blog
To celebrate FA Cup Final day, my next Reading the Game book review is The Cup by Richard Whitehead. Released in March with the subtitle “A Pictorial Celebration of the World’s Greatest Football Tournament”, The Cup attempts to shine a light on the 150-year...
May 9, 2022 | The Main Blog
This is a special Reading the Game to coincide with the anniversary of a seismic, but often overlooked moment in the history of the England Men’s Football Team. The book I’m reviewing is The Wanderer: The Story of Frank Soo by Susan Gardiner. Frank Soo made his...
Apr 22, 2022 | Football Writing
Happy Easter! It is a slightly surreal feeling to think that this afternoon we welcome Runcorn Linnets for the final scheduled home match of the current season. It’s not impossible that we might yet be gathered here at the IP Truck Parts Stadium but a draw or better...
Apr 13, 2022 | Football Writing
In my last column, I described our remaining fixtures as ‘Cup Finals’ due to their importance in terms of the club’s destiny. After all, this is the time of year when clubs at all levels, all over the land, get to play at prestigious venues for trophies of all kinds....
Apr 3, 2022 | The Main Blog
This week’s Reading the Game book review is of a book I discovered via Twitter; Scotland’s Lost Clubs by Jeff Webb. The microblogging site is often a bit of a binfire – especially when it comes to football – but sometimes, it is brilliant. Here’s an example: I wasn’t...
Mar 31, 2022 | The Main Blog
Over the recent international break, I’ve been reading Beautiful Bridesmaids Dressed in Oranje by Gary Thacker. As I’ve just finished it, it seems sensible to add it to the Reading the Game library while it’s topical! Beautiful Bridesmaids Dressed in Oranje is...
Mar 27, 2022 | The Main Blog
There’s so much great football writing now that no reader, however voracious, can possibly read – or even know about – everything that’s out there. So it was with this week’s Reading The Game review. I won a copy of Forgotten Nations by Chris Deeley in a...
Mar 27, 2022 | Football Writing
After the late fireworks of last Saturday’s win over Kendal Town, we now know that the spectre of automatic relegation has been banished. That means today’s match against promotion-chasing Workington is important as Cables aim to escape the bottom three completely or,...
