I don't own any book but I always in Borders reading some footie books/magazine. One of them is book about Ryan Giggs and history of Man United and one more book about Top 50 United Player.

But i also read some Liverpool Season Review (not sure the title) from 2000 - 2005. But was bought by my brother. He's a hardcore Liverpool fan.

Besides, me and my brother once was collector of "EPL" magazine. Now no more.

That's all.

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Read a couple of chapters of Gerrard's biography and Jose Mourinho's at the bookstores. Agreed that the chapters on Istanbul was spine-tingling, while Mourinho offered much insight into his management style and my fav, tactical ideas & training methods. I've not been able to find the book since!

I think the best place to get football books would be kinokuniya. They have a section dedicated to sports and a whole rack for football I think. If all else fails, you can go to the info counter and ask them to order a book for you.

Speaking of buying books online, I've bought 3 myself. If you are a Liverpool fan in particular, you may have heard of Paul Tomkins. I purchased his first three books entitled, "Golden Past, Red Future", "Red Revival" and "Above Us Only Sky" respectively. To my surprise I then received a complimentary copy of "Red Review" with Paul's autograph and a message that read, "Hope you enjoy it!". I sent him a personal message thanking him and he replied. For those that do not know him, Paul is a lifelong Liverpool fan who is suffering from illness but still manages to take some time off to write and he now only goes to Anfield when his health permits him to do so. He is also a regular poster on RAWK. He has since released a few other books as shown below. I'm going to purchase "Dynasty" next. It's a paperback and is pretty inexpensive. Those that are familiar with him will note that although he has rose tinted glasses on, he provides statistics to back up everything he writes.





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From what I gather, "The Real Bill Shankly" which is officially his book with permission from his family should be a better book. But I've not read it yet.
Now looking forward to Carra & "The Real Bob Paisley" book

How about Alan Shearer?

Well here is what Carragher's book looks like. Stupid Ryan (MyRAWK's Torres) still has my Shankly book! It's been with him for the past 4 years and he's told me the pages have come off! Grrr..


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Speaking of Jamie Carragher, here are some excerpts taken from Steven Gerrard's autobiography regarding Carragher and his commitment towards the team during their course towards Istanbul Glory in 2005.

"We survived because of one man - Jamie Carragher. I looked at Carra and saw a man hell-bent on not letting the lead slip. He was prepared to offer the last drop of sweat and blood in his body to get us to Istanbul. Carra knows his history and knew what it meant for Liverpool to reach the final. He did everything to prevent Chelsea ruining Liverpool's dream. He tackled, blocked, headed. Good at the Bridge, Carra was a Colossus at Anfield." - On Jamie's performance for the last few minutes against Chelsea in the Champions League semi-finals, 2nd leg.

Had some time to kill a few months back in Mid Valley, so spent around 3,4 hours in MPH and read Keano's book. Managed to finish half though. Thought it was a very good read.

Being a Chels fan, can't help but to automatically look for Chelsea related books whenever I'm at the local bookstores, be it Kino or Borders. Similar to Duke Red, you can say that I'm a bit biased lah...

However, a few 'neutral' books that I did pick up were FOUL! The Secret World of FIFA: Bribes, Vote Rigging and Ticket Scandals, Gazza's book and the current one that I'm reading based on England managers for the past 40 years I think. Quite interesting this, a journalist's look on the performances, attitudes, styles of the last few England Managers including Bobby Robson, Graham Taylor, Glenn Hoddle, etc. And the author is Brian Glanville, a respected footy journalist who also pens for World Soccer magazine at times.

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Oh yeah, also got a book for cheaps at this one warehouse sale I went to. Can't remember the title but it was about the sex scandals of players and managers. Malcolm Allison and George Best, the king of em all. Hahahaha.

i've read that book. was good isnt it?

roykeane is the man wei

I've only read three Arsenal books. The first was Fever Pitch, which I'm sure most people here already know about. It's a phenomenal book, and could be enjoyed by any sports fan, but it seems even more special for Arsenal supporters. The second was Arsène Wenger - The Biography by Xavier Rivoire. I found it quite interesting, and about half of it was pre-Arsenal material.

The third Arsenal book I read was "Arsenal from the heart" by Bob Wall...it was written in 1970, just before we won our first double, so it's one of the most sincere and well written football books I've read, from a guy that was with Arsenal from the Chapman era onwards...in fact, anyone who's a Gooner and wants to know more about our History pre '70's should read it.

Never got about to reading too many autobiographies but certainly will once I finish my SPM this year. Also the one book that I really want to read is 'Arsenal:The Making of a Modern Super-Club'.

It quite nice to read actually... I love the part when he talks on his relationship with rafa... we can actually discovered the different rafa we know...the warm and frenly 1 instead of the cold 1... cost quite a boom..17pound if i m not mistaken...

not out here yet?

I'm not sure if it's available here yet. I believe they have a package on offer at Amazon. His biography an Paul Tomkins' "Dynasty" for $16.08 pounds. Not sure how much the shipping cost is though.

shipping is almost always the killer.

sometimes even more than the book : cry :

i saw carra's bio today at kinokuniya for RM81.90.
borders doesnt have it yet, so i'll just wait.

On sale already? Great! Is it hardcover? i have been waiting for it. Thanks for the info.

nah, all soft...didnt see any hardcovers around.