The world is awash with the autobiographies of players and managers, but Superfan is the first biography that I can think of, which is based on the life of a fan.

That fan is Morris Keston, a larger than life character who has attended over 3000 Spurs games. As well as being a Tottenham fanatic, Morris became friends with some of the biggest names in football.

Nostalgia being the yearning for a past that one found perfectly grim at the time, I find myself consumed by wistful longing for the rich literary harvest of summer 2006. It was about this time, four years ago, that the press releases began to arrive, heralding a rash of footballer autobiographies which would be published within days of the Golden Generation bringing home the World Cup.

Footballer autobiographies can be found housed under the Dewey decimal system in the eight circle of hell. Where does that put autobiographies by the team doctors of famous teams? Hitchhiking to the ninth, I suppose.

The team doctor from France's '98 World Cup win has made some fairly damning statements regarding the blood samples of France's World Cup-winning side from 1998.

Having been a lifelong, avid book reader, primarily football autobiographies of course, the release of Sir Alex Fergusons new book "Football Bloody Hell" scheduled to hit the shelves this week...
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Dec 2004 - stubbed a lit cigar into the eye of young team-mate Jamie Tandy during Manchester City's Christmas party. Fined six weeks' wages by City. Forced to pay four weeks' salary - approximately £60,000 - immediately, with a further two weeks suspended for a year.
Barton says: "If I was to do something similar, I'd be the biggest fool ever.

The Telegraph has a nice list of Barton's misbehavior over the course of his professional career, which we reproduce here:

Dec 2004 stubbed a lit cigar into the eye of young team-mate Jamie Tandy during Manchester City's Christmas party. Fined six weeks' wages by City.