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Book Review: The Rivals Game by Douglas Beattie
If you've ever read Four Four Two's regular feature More Than A Game, then there's no doubt that
you'll love this book. For the premise behind it is similar: take two clubs where there's a derby
and look at what makes games between them particularly fierce.
Book Review: Tor
For some reason this book – which is a history of German football - had stood, unread, on my
bookshelf for a couple of years. I had bought it in one of my usual spending sprees and then felt
little inclination to read it. Well, that's not completely true as I had actually started to read
it, not really liked what I saw and dropped it soon after.
Book Review: Behind the Back Page by Chris Davies
One the cover of this book there's a quote attributed to Ian Ridley where he discribes the author,
Chris Davies, as being "a funny guy".
Such a comment would normally be the prelude to a long read without any laughs.
Much has been written about the Gael Kakuta case which has led to the ban on transfer dealings that
has been imposed on Chelsea. There has been debate about whether the decision was too harsh or not;
others have focused on going over Chelsea's actions to see whether they were right in what they did
or not.
It is no secret that the big clubs tend to consider the League Cup as the ideal opportunity to give
young players a chance. Sometimes, this is the stepping stone to bigger things but on most
occasions these players never really progress beside that soltary appearance. So it is that you
look at past line-ups and come across a number of by now unfamiliar names.
Book Review: Wark On by John Wark
It must be impossible for those who played top flight football in the era of pre-Premiership riches
not to wonder how their lives would have panned out had they been born a couple of decades later.
Take Glen Hysen: the Swedish central defender who played for Liverpool in the early nineties
recently ended up on the dole after a Swedish broadcaster opted not to renew his contract.
Book Review: Red Race by Paul Tomkins
If you're a fan of American sport (something that I have to admit I'm not) then you'll be familiar
with the love affair that there is with statistics and how numbers are used to explain almost
everything.
Up till a few years back such an approach was alien to football where the only numbers you were
likely to get were those pertaining to the scoreline.
