Advantages: Great research backed up with real life examples Disadvantages: slight factual errors
I am not a great reader by any account (I watched the film of Lord of the Flies in a misguided attempt to fool my GCSE English teacher that I had read the text!) but with my interest in football I somehow felt compelled to read this expose of the corruption and lies that underlie our beautiful game.
The scandals of bribery and corruption are well documented abroad at clubs like Marseille but such allegations have remained relatively muted in England ... ...clean here. What Bower does in this enthralling account is demonstrate beyond doubt that we are not. The truth is that a series of high profile managers, chairmen and agents have contrived to bring British football into disrepute.
There are a number of minor flaws in this book, not least that you get the overriding sense that the author does not have an intimate knowledge of the subject matter, but what he succeeds in doing is using fascinating ...
leroyisourking 15.06.2004
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