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14/01/2024
The Football Literary Society is the place to hear interviews from the last four years with football writers, fans and critics, as well as news on today's best football literature. Please feel free to spread the word!!
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14/01/2024
The Football Literary Society is the place to hear interviews from the last four years with football writers, fans and critics, as well as news on new football literature. Please feel free to spread the word!!
Here, have a free plug!
09/01/2024
Inspired by a paragraph in the epilogue of Peter Crouch’s latest book of laddy banter, I decided to adopt his suggestion and celebrate a Retired Footballer every day of the year. I try to cover as many teams as possible to appease the many different fanbases. The goal is to make the reader think of players who once made a living from the game and, in the words of Crouch (and his ghostwriter Tom Fordyce): ‘Just don’t let them be forgotten. Once a footballer, forever a footballer. Hold us in your hearts.’
Although the big names and clubs in world football are all celebrated accordingly, the Retired Footballer Calendar will sometimes throw the spotlight on unsung professionals who mean something to some set of fanatics. The Calendar is available on Amazon for £2.99.
The Football Literary Society Presents...The Retired Footballer Calendar Inspired by a paragraph in the epilogue of Peter Crouch’s latest book of laddy banter, Jonny Brick of the Football Literary Society decided to adopt his suggestion and celebrate a Retired Footballer every day of the year. He tries to cover as many teams as possible to appease the many different f....
08/01/2024
The Africa Cup of Nations starts in Cote d'Ivoire on Saturday. Morocco and Senegal are favourites but, with the preponderance of penalty shoot-outs and the ever-awful VAR, anything can happen.
Ben Jackson has written a history of the tournament and chatted to me for the Football Literary Society (formerly Football Library, whose name has been given to an American fan of football literature).
Ben Jackson Ben Jackson is a researcher at the Institute of Development Studies, which is connected to the University of Sussex. He has used his Master's degree in African Politics to write his first book, a comp
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