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With an increasing number of sports pages devoted to the sport, a number of magazine and countless
websites all purporting to cover every angle of the game of football, it is difficult to see any
room for new publications.
Yet they come nevertheless. The latest is Football Punk, an offshoot of the successful Golf Punk
magazine which is owned by former Liverpool defender Phil Babb.
Growing up as a football mad teenager, the weekly purchase of Guerin Sportivo was a must. The
Italian magazine was cheap enough and, in any case, I could easily get the money for it off my
parents with the excuse that it was helping me learn Italian.
But what made it such a must read in the eyes of a kid fed up with the banalities that proliferated
what were roughly the English equivalents of Match and Shoot was the serious edge to its writing.
One of the best sellers this summer, the book Football Dynamo was reviewed on here a couple of
weeks back. Author Marc Bennetts must have liked the review because he kindly accepted to do an
interview with us in which he talks about Russian football and how he had always expected Martin
Skrtel to do well.
Hopes around Russia's probabilities at the European Championships weren't that high. True, they had
Guus Hiddink, a master in getting teams to outperform expectations, but their limitations were
deemed to be too much even for him to overcome. After all, they'd qualified for the championships
largely because of England's incompetence and their defeat to Croatia in the final group game.
The end of the year seems to be the ideal time for compiling lists and whereas others have looked
at the best goals or their favourite games from 2008, I've opted for a completely different list:
the best five books I've read during 2008.
5:Elephants, Lions and Eagles: A Journey Through African Football by Filippo
Ricci
I'll admit that I expected a bit more from this book.
Book Review: Anfield of Dreams by Neil Dunkin
The old Chinese saying "may you live in interesting times" was apparently meant as a
curse, yet the realization of that maxim hasn't harmed Neil Dunkin too much.
A Liverpool supporter from the fifties, he witnessed the club's rise from the Second Division under
Bill Shankly through its domination of English and European football up till the present era.
A couple of months back, I reviewed the book Anfield of Dreams by Neil Dunkin and although it
wasn't exactly my kind of book, there are many who don't share my opinion. Proof of that comes not
only from the very healthy sales figures but also by the recent nomination for the British Sports
Book Awards 2009 for the Best New Writer title.
The end of the year seems to be the ideal time for compiling lists and whereas others have looked
at the best goals or their favourite games from 2008, I've opted for a completely different list:
the best five books I've read during 2008.
5:Elephants, Lions and Eagles: A Journey Through African Football by Filippo
Ricci
I'll admit that I expected a bit more from this book.
A couple of months back, I reviewed the book Anfield of Dreams by Neil Dunkin and although it
wasn't exactly my kind of book, there are many who don't share my opinion. Proof of that comes not
only from the very healthy sales figures but also by the recent nomination for the British Sports
Book Awards 2009 for the Best New Writer title.
