THFC1882′s Stuart Watts with news of an exciting new book, chronicling
memories of Tottenham Hotspur over the last 60 years!
It is with great pleasure that I would like to announce that I am one of the founding members of
the Spurs Writers Club!!
Prolific Spurs author Norman Giller has recruited a team of 45 writers and our first book The
Glory-Glory Game will be published early in 2012!
Next summer I'm travelling around Europe by rail during Euro 2012, aiming to see as many matches
in as many different countries as possible. The tournament itself is being held in Poland and the
Ukraine (as the image above handily illustrates) and I'll go to a couple of actual matches there
but I want to watch the Croats play whilst in Croatia (with their fans), the Bulgarians whilst in
Bulgaria, the Latvians whilst in Latvia, etc.
Earlier this week I received my review copy of Those Guys Have All the Fun: Inside the World of
ESPN, so the first thing I did was jump to the index to find any sections that deal with soccer.
Based on the directions that the index sent me in, and I should note the index seems a bit poor,
the book only focuses on soccer in the context of the 2010 World Cup finals in South Africa, which
isn't a bad thing, but it seems to leave out the World Wide Leader's dabbling with the Beautiful
Game during the bulk of its 31 years.
If you're a regular reader of this blog, you know by now that I'm a "Soccer Dad" - I coach my son's
team of 10 and 11 year olds - as well as a huge fan of trying to generate genuine insights into the
beautiful game by systematically exploiting evidence and fact. So, here are two book
recommendations that deal with each of these passions of mine.
