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After Luke Chadwick joined us last week, we're sticking with the Manchester United theme by revisiting the time we read Gary & Phil Neville's jointly-written 'For Club & Country'. The highlight of which was their *genuine* trip to the cinema with Sir Alex Ferguson to watch Spiceworld: The Movie. Plus the Man United dressing room ponder over whether Princess Diana was the best looking woman in the world.
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Ex-Manchester United, West Ham & MK Dons hero Luke Chadwick joins us this week to tell us all about his brilliant autobiography 'Not Just A Pretty Face'. Featuring Luke on life under Sir Alex, terrifying Man United initiations, Roy Keane the mentor, getting addicted to Big Brother 2, and Lee Croft's insane theories. Plus Luke opens up about the chants he faced, and the mental health issues he experienced, after being taunted on They Think It's All Over, which he talks about so brilliantly in the book.
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As it's spooky season, here's a late Halloween present courtesy of Ivo Graham and Neil Redfearn. As Neil tells us all about his latest controversial signing in the transfer market.
This clip is taken from Series 3 Episode 3 'Neil Redfearn's 'There's Only One Neil Redfearn (ft. Ivo Graham)', which you can listen to in full by scrolling back through the Football Book Club podcast feed. See you next Monday as we welcome Luke Chadwick to the Book Club.
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For one week only Football Book Club becomes Football Quiz Club! As FBC face Joe and Theo from the brilliant Career We Go podcast in a battle over our old friend Gary Lineker's 96/97 Soccer Quiz Book. Featuring extremely dated rounds on all things 1996/97, Famous Garys, You're the Ref, Real Book Fake Book and, of course, quickfire Barry Venison Bonanza. Who will come out victorious? Find out now...
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With Maisie Adam currently on Taskmaster and Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink currently tangoing his way across the Strictly dancefloor, what better time to revisit our episode featuring both of them? Back in 2021, Maisie brought us her Leeds hero's autobiography, only to find a manifesto on soft porn and chips with vinegar, and discovered the perils of opening Jimmy's book on the set of A League Of Their Own.
This clip is taken from Series 4 Episode 6 'Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink's 'Jimmy' (ft. Maisie Adam)', which you can listen to in full by scrolling back through the Football Book Club podcast feed. See you next Monday for FBC vs Career We Go!
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The Taskmaster's Assistant himself, Liverpool fan Little Alex Horne joins us to read Wales legend Ian Rush’s 2009 *epic* 'Rush: The Autobiography'. Featuring Ian's short-lived phase dressing up as David Bowie, 'surreal banter' with Mark Lawrenson, footballers with Mr Men names, joy at Liverpool, struggles in Italy, a dramatic reading where Ian attacks Kenny Dalglish's wife with a scone, and why Ian thinks the game's gone. But only when it comes to FA Cup draw balls.
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The brilliant journalist, Spanish football expert & Sunday Times bestselling author Guillem Balagué is back on Book Club! And this time he's here to discuss his brilliant new biography 'Rise of the Villans: Inside Unai Emery's Aston Villa Revolution' (out now via Orion Publishing). Including Guillem on Unai the disruptor, trademarking the words 'good ebening', and exactly how much Jhon Duran is too much Jhon Duran. Plus we get Guillem's expert view on Villa's poor start to the season, Monchi's shock exit and what the future holds for Aston Villa under Unai and Roberto Olabe, before a game of 'Real Book Fake Book'.
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This week the Book Club are reading 'Take Note!' - the 2010 autobiography by James's favourite ever player, Spurs, Portsmouth & England legend Darren Anderton. Featuring an unhinged foreword by Terry Venables, arguments over the phone with Alan Sugar, Gazza the wise sage, Darren's *many* holidays to America, the truth behind his injury record, and the most disgusting prank we've ever encountered courtesy of Steve Sedgley. Plus we play 'Is it a Taylor Swift song or a Darren Anderton chapter title?'.
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For the first of our Book Club Classics we're heading back to 2021 to bring you Steve Bruce and his wife Janet's incredibly dramatic standoff with police inside a phone box in Gillingham.
This clip is taken from Series 3 Episode 7 'Steve Bruce's 'Heading For Victory', which you can listen to in full by scrolling back through the Football Book Club podcast feed. See you next Monday as the new series continues!
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Football Book Club returns, live from London's Cheerful Earful podcast festival! And we've tracked down Alan Shearer's long-lost, secret 1998 audiocassettes to FINALLY bring Alan's story to the masses. Including how Bryan Adams helped secure Alan's move back to Newcastle, his war of words with Michael Owen, and Alan's 'tragically magnificent arse' he owes his whole career to. Plus Blackburn Rover's Jack Walker goes Brando, Kevin Keegan's unnecessary codewords and we play 'Mulled Over or Moldova'.
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Football Book Club is BACK! Starting next Monday 15th September, new episodes will be dropping on your feed every fortnight. Great new guests! Questionable new books! Same Football Book Club.
See you next week!
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It's the last episode of Series 5 :(. But we're going out with a bang, as we read Manchester United legend Dwight Yorke's explosive 2009 autobiography 'Born To Score'. Featuring treble heroics, the truth behind his romance with Jordan, and keepie uppies in a bin. Plus partying with Colin Montgomerie, David May's 'wicked' sense of humour and Quinton Fortune - the most delicate soul in footballing history.
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Football Book Club are going international! As James heads to spectacular Rome armed only with a city guide written by its most famous son - AS Roma legend Francesco Totti. Totti penned 'E mo'te spiego Roma' ('And Now I'll Explain To You Rome') in 2012, and now, on what was meant to be a romantic weekend away with his fiancé, James will be taking in the sights, learning about the city and enjoying some downright bizarre football anecdotes courtesy of Francesco. Keeping in touch with the rest of the Book Club back home all the way. Can he see it all in five days? Is it a good idea to leave your holiday in the hands of a footballer? And will his fiancé have left him by the end of it? Find out as we head to Italy...
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A late contender for best book title of the series, this week we're reading former Aston Villa, Leicester and Coventry City forward Julian Joachim's 2023 autobiography 'You Must Be Joachim'.
Featuring the ups and downs of a career which sampled the Premier League to the Gibraltar National League, Julian causing a stink in the dressing room (literally) and failed Chinese restaurants co-owned with Steve Walsh. Plus brushes with Hollywood, what connects Julian and the Kardashians and quite possibly the best Ken Zong yet. Julian might be Joachim, but were we laughing by the end of it? Find out now!
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It's time for, perhaps, the most obscure and most bizarre book we've ever read on Football Book Club - and definitely the shortest. We're reading all 58 pages of former Spurs, Wolves and Arsenal midfielder Rohan Ricketts's self-published, 2013 book 'Passion For Football: Things To Know From Youth to Pro'.
Having played for no less than NINETEEN clubs around the world, from Canada to Bangladesh, Ecuador to Coventry, Rohan's book is part self-help, part the highs and lows of being a globetrotting journeyman, and there's even time for an interview with Darren Bent.
Featuring unwanted phone calls with David Pleat, Steve Sidwell teacher's pet and the perils of being a salsa teacher. Plus Eric the taxi driving football agent, a truly disastrous spell in Moldova and Rohan teaches us the F.A.C.T.S.
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After the drama of Mick McCarthy's 2002 World Cup Diary a fortnight ago, it's time for Roy Keane's side of the story, as we read the Manchester United legend's explosive 2002 book 'Keane: The Autobiography'.
Joining us to read it is the brilliant comedian and comedy writer, as well as host of The Way They Were podcast, Gráinne Maguire, as we delve deep, deep, DEEP into the mind of the former Irish captain.
Featuring Roy on Jack Charlton, the nightmare of people asking you for tickets, and the merits of pasta. Plus Roy's scathing views on Jason McAteer's fish and chip challenge, *that* challenge on Alfe Inge Haaland, a Dramatic Reading where Roy goes watch shopping with Lee Sharpe and, of course, the sheer drama of that showdown with Mick in Saipan.
Who will come out on top? Roy or Mick? Find out in Keane vs McCarthy Pt 2.
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We're heading back to 2002 where, over on an island in Japan, the Irish World Cup camp is about to be rocked by a heavyweight clash for the ages - Roy Keane vs Mick McCarthy.
Once and for all we're going to find out who was right, who was wrong and most importantly, who wrote the better book about it? Starting with then Ireland manager Mick McCarthy's World Cup diary 'Ireland's World Cup 2002'. And joining us to read it is Ipswich/McCarthy megafan and creator of Apple TV's 'Trying' - comedy writer Andy Wolton.
Featuring clashes with the press, Gary Doherty selection headaches, and of course the Roy Keane incident. Plus Jason McAteer's fledgling romance with Kylie, Buddhist sound baths and Kenny Cunningham playing 'Who Wants to be a Millionaire?' on the coach.
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It's time once more for everyone's favourite Football Book Club spin-off - Story Time! Previously only available to members of the Football Book Club *Club*, now everyone can enjoy our New Year's Day collection of loosely-football related stories, including brawling mascots, Romanian World Cup mishaps, Taylor Swift's hold over Brazilian giants Corinthians and footballers turning up on prime time ITV...
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Crack open a bottle! Because it's the first episode of 2024 and we're celebrating by reading Alan Brazil's champagne-laden, 2006 memoir 'There's An Awful Lot of Bubbly In Brazil'. Joining us to read it is podcasting royalty and star of Beef and Dairy Network & Three Bean Salad - Ben Partridge, who was mesmerised by Alan's tall tales from Talksport and beyond, including Alan and Mike 'Porky' Parry fighting their way out of a Latvian engagement party, run-ins with Simon Jordan and Alan Brazil versus the terrorists. Plus - is Rod Stewart real? Find out now!
CW: Contains brief discussion of sexual abuse
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It's (almost) Christmas! So what better at this time of year than for the Book Club to sit down around the log fire with a copy of Chelsea legend Frank Lampard's children's classic 'Frankie's Magic Football: The Great Santa Race'. Frank wrote *twenty* books in the 'Frankie's Magic Football' series back in the 2010s, with this being the most festive of the lot. Featuring talking dogs, evil animatronic penguins who eat mince pies and plenty of mundane football action. Can little Frank save Christmas? And should four thirty-somethings be doing something better with their time than reading a kid's book? Find out as we get festive with Frank.
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