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30 September 2016

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    Fever Pitch

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    It's not depressing! It's very funny and was also almost the book that started this all off.

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    All Played Out

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    Pete Davies really started off English football literature, and when I was going around London publishers in 1991, trying to sell them my first football book, people said to me, 'Oh yes, we know football books sell, because Pete Davies wrote this very good book called All Played Out.'

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    Brilliant Orange: The Neurotic Genius of Dutch Soccer

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    This is about Holland and Dutch football and what makes it special. I grew up in Holland, so I have a particular tie to this book.

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    Only A Game?

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    This is a cult book among those of us who like reading about football. It came out in the 1970s when really no one was publishing books about football.

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    Goalkeepers Are Different

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    As a teenager I must have read it five or eight times, and I've subsequently met other people who've had that experience too. It was a book about what you always dreamed of, of being a professional footballer, but it was rendered with grittiness and accuracy and it just has the pace of a really good novel.

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