Football Book Club
Like your books less Dickens, more Dickov? Football Book Club gets stuck into the true classics of the literary world - footballers’ autobiographies. As recommended by BBC Five Live, The Athletic, The Sunday Times and named one of Esquire's best comedy podcasts around right now. Described as “pretty funny” by Darren Huckerby.
- Website
- https://www.thefootballbookclub.com
- Description
- Like your books less Dickens, more Dickov? Football Book Club gets stuck into the true classics of the literary world - footballers’ autobiographies. As recommended by BBC Five Live, The Athletic, The Sunday Times and named one of Esquire's best comedy podcasts around right now. Described as “pretty funny” by Darren Huckerby.
- Language
- 🇬🇧 English
- last modified
- 2024-10-21 08:54
- last episode published
- 2024-09-23 01:00
- publication frequency
- 21.84 days
- Contributors
- The Football Book Club
- Author
- The Football Book Club
- Owner
- bugg_james@hotmail.com (The Football Book Club)
- Managing editor
- Explicit
- true
- Number of Episodes
- 84
- Rss-Feeds
- Detail page
- Categories
- Sports Comedy Football Soccer
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Episodes
| Date | Title & Description | Contributors |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-09-23 | Ever wanted to see four people read a book before your very eyes? Well now you can! Because we're delighted to be playing The Cheerful Earful podcast festival in London on Saturday 19th October. And we've got an exciting guest joining us...Tickets are ... | |
| 2024-04-15 | It's the last episode of Series 5 :(. But we're going out with a bang, as we read Manchester United legend Dwight Yorke's explosive 2009 autobiography 'Born To Score'. Featuring treble heroics, the truth behind his romance with Jordan, and keepie uppie... | |
| 2024-04-01 | Football Book Club are going international! As James heads to spectacular Rome armed only with a city guide written by its most famous son - AS Roma legend Francesco Totti. Totti penned 'E mo'te spiego Roma' ('And Now I'll Explain To You Rome') in 2012... | |
| 2024-03-18 | A late contender for best book title of the series, this week we're reading former Aston Villa, Leicester and Coventry City forward Julian Joachim's 2023 autobiography 'You Must Be Joachim'.Featuring the ups and downs of a career which sampled the Prem... | |
| 2024-03-04 | It's time for, perhaps, the most obscure and most bizarre book we've ever read on Football Book Club - and definitely the shortest. We're reading all 58 pages of former Spurs, Wolves and Arsenal midfielder Rohan Ricketts's self-published, 2013 book 'Pa... | |
| 2024-02-19 | After the drama of Mick McCarthy's 2002 World Cup Diary a fortnight ago, it's time for Roy Keane's side of the story, as we read the Manchester United legend's explosive 2002 book 'Keane: The Autobiography'.Joining us to read it is the brilliant comedi... | |
| 2024-02-05 | We're heading back to 2002 where, over on an island in Japan, the Irish World Cup camp is about to be rocked by a heavyweight clash for the ages - Roy Keane vs Mick McCarthy.Once and for all we're going to find out who was right, who was wrong and most... | |
| 2024-01-22 |
Story Time 3: Cyril the Swan Goes On The Rampage & Taylor Swift Charms Corinthians It's time once more for everyone's favourite Football Book Club spin-off - Story Time! Previously only available to members of the Football Book Club *Club*, now everyone can enjoy our New Year's Day collection of loosely-football related stories, incl... |
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| 2024-01-08 | Crack open a bottle! Because it's the first episode of 2024 and we're celebrating by reading Alan Brazil's champagne-laden, 2006 memoir 'There's An Awful Lot of Bubbly In Brazil'. Joining us to read it is podcasting royalty and star of Beef and Dairy N... | |
| 2023-12-11 |
Frank Lampard's 'Frankie's Magic Football: The Great Santa Race' It's (almost) Christmas! So what better at this time of year than for the Book Club to sit down around the log fire with a copy of Chelsea legend Frank Lampard's children's classic 'Frankie's Magic Football: The Great Santa Race'. Frank wrote *twenty* ... |