Can We Play You Every Week?: From Newcastle United to Plymouth Argyle - a Fan's Guide to the 92 Football League Clubs of England

Can We Play You Every Week?: From Newcastle United to Plymouth Argyle - a Fan's Guide to the 92 Football League Clubs of England

by Max Velody (Author)

Synopsis

Can We Play You Every Week? gets right under the skin of every football league club and captures the great moments all fans cherish. Packed with anecdotes, quotes, tall tales, small players, crooks, corruption and crackpots, worst signings and bizarre injuries, this book is essential reading for anyone with the love of our national sport running through their veins. Get the low-down on the chasm between rich teams and poor, find out which club was elected to the league without kicking a ball and which goalie took a bung because he couldn't sell his bungalow. Be amazed at the club owner who believed in aliens and the player whose career was ended by an ironing board. But, most of all, read about the heroism, love and loyalty of ordinary fans, the thousands who have kept their clubs going when the chips were really down...

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 336
Publisher: Short Books Ltd
Published: 06 Aug 2009

ISBN 10: 1906021740
ISBN 13: 9781906021740

Media Reviews
Velody's prose is infectiously warm and brims with the sort of humour that keeps the reader turning the page to mine more gems from the rich seam of fact, trivia and anecdote he's skilfully assembled. This is the sort of writing that underpinned the rise of the fanzine movement in the Nineties, but which is now as in short supply as home-born players in the premiership. Which leaves me with only one thing to say about the man behind the book: Velody for England! John Tague, Independent on Sunday A wonderfully irreverent study of all 92 league football clubs, this gem of a book contains a host of facts that will not be found in more solemn works of reference. Sunday Telegraph Can We Play You Every Week? has something to please every fan... Velody really knows his stuff, and every pen-portrait is lavish with anecdote, trivia and opinion. The Telegraph
Author Bio
Max Velody is not that old but his match day ticket costs precisely 432 times more than it did when he saw his first game. Bovril is Max's half-time drink of choice, and he worries that it is going out of fashion. His team has won just one trophy in the last 70 years. Max is very confident this will be their year.