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Here, in the latest of our book reviews, Ben Summers takes a look at Barney Ronay's The Manager, a
book which surely deserves more than its two current stars on Amazon. The Manager: The Absurd
Ascent of the Most Important Man in Football By Barney Ronay Published by Sphere August 2010,
£8.99, ISBN: 9780751542790 This book's incongruous appearance in Fabio Capello's 2010 World Cup
luggage leant it a curious subplot that could easily have been incorporated into the book itself.
Our latest book review comes from Tom Bodell, editor of Vital Watford. Tom can be followed on
Twitter at @TBBodell and here casts his eye on the autobiography of Richard Lee, one time Hornet
and now a Bee. Graduation: Life Lessons of a Professional Footballer By Richard Lee Published by
Bennion Kearny August 2010, £9.
Sport Italia by Simon Martin Published by I. B. Tauris August 2011, £22.50, ISBN: 9781845118204
If anyone had any doubt about sport's ability to warp society, Simon Martin's sumptuous Sport
Italia will leave them without arguments. A nation, remember, only since 1861; Italy has survived
its first one and a half centuries by following the path described in Benedict Anderson's
influential book, Imagined Communities – and sport has played an integral part in that.
The Very Best of Pitch Invasion edited by Tom Dunmore Published by Pitch Invasion Press December
2011, $5.99 ISBN: 978-0615546834 Recent weeks have seemed pivotal ones for the football
blogosphere. Three prominent general blogs, Les Rosbifs, European Football Weekends and The
Equaliser have all decided to call it a day while pioneering club websites Viva Rovers and Boy from
Brazil have also stepped aside; the circumstances behind the latter events having been chronicled
in these pages.
Larry Lloyd's Hard Man: Hard Game is one of the best accounts of Forest's golden years
that I have read. I think Lloyd benefits hugely from having a female ghost writer. At the risk of
being sexist, it just allows one of the hardest men I have ever met to admit to all sorts of things
that I am not sure he would if he'd have played it safe and used a male sports journalist to help
him write the book [.
