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Podcasts from Jonny Brick, including radio shows from the Football Literary Society. View his portfolio at jonnybrick.com, with information on Now That"s What I Call NOW (2018) and A Country Way of Life (2018).

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00:31:11

Matt Tiller - First Half

jonny_brick ·

2024/01/01

Matt Tiller's passion project over the last few years has been to alert people to the fate of Jack Leslie, a hotshot striker who now has a statue outside Home Park, the Plymouth Argyle stadium where he scored so many goals. The Lion That Never Roared tells the story of Jack being called up for England then 'uncalled up', and was written with the blessing of his family. Plymouth fan Matt, who also produces radio comedy and writes his own material, comes into the Football Library to talk about a

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00:55:12

John Rudge And Simon Lowe

jonny_brick ·

2023/12/18

John Rudge has finally delivered his brilliant life story. To Cap It All was written with Simon Lowe, who finished off the original text co-written by Chris Harper. The book had been planned to come out in the late 1990s, when John had been manager of Port Vale for over 15 years, but when he became Director of Football at Stoke City, it was pushed back and only completed in advance of John's 80th birthday in 2024, which will see the unveiling of a statue of the becapped one at Vale Park. John was

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00:23:17

Simon Lowe

jonny_brick ·

2023/12/11

Simon Lowe has spent five decades following Stoke City, who fired Alex Neil the day before this visit was aired. A man of many talents who has worked in TV and on newspapers, Simon has written several books on the club's history and has also collaborated with Stoke legends Denis Smith and Terry Conroy on their memoirs. In 2023, Simon co-authored To Cap It All, the story of former Stoke Director of Football and Port Vale manager John Rudge. Find the book here:

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00:33:43

Dr Mark Orton

jonny_brick ·

2023/12/03

Football in Argentina is never, ever dull. Dr Mark Orton gained his PhD from De Montford University with a thesis which took him to Argentina for a year. The fruits of his labours emerged in two books, which were both published in 2023. The first is a more academic tome based on his doctoral thesis on Football and National Identity, while the other is a history of River Plate called El Mas Grande. Find the latter book here:

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00:51:38

Matt Riley Returns

jonny_brick ·

2023/11/27

Matt Riley spent several years in the 2010s out in Thailand, where he made a big effort to support domestic football. Thai Football Tales is his attempt to recall the picaresque adventures he had in the country, running into good fortune and bad and learning about the Thai way of life. Find the book here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Thai-Football-Tales-Beautiful-Madness-ebook/dp/B0CKWHT5N8/

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00:52:15

Mark Poole

jonny_brick ·

2023/11/20

Mark Poole's book is called (deep breath) 99 Iconic Moments in Scottish Football: From the Famous to the Obscure, Scotland's Glorious, Unusual and Cult Games, Players and Events. Need I say more? Mark also compiled a Day By Day history of Dundee United, and he has also written for Nutmeg, the Scottish football periodical, and When Saturday Comes. Find the book on Scottish football here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Iconic-Moments-Scottish-Football-Scotlands-ebook/dp/B0CLGLC5KG

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00:36:25

Kevin Pogorzelski

jonny_brick ·

2023/11/13

Kevin Pogorzelski loves Liverpool FC so much that he moved up to the city for work. The Stanley Park Derby is one of 11 which he has written about in Divided Cities, a travelogue which is as much about the global football community as it is about Kevin's love of the game. Kevin also writes for total-italianfootball.com, which reports on Serie A. Find Divided Cities here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Divided-Cities-Worlds-Passionate-Derbies-ebook/dp/B0BY9CV4Y3

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00:36:03

Gareth Thomas

jonny_brick ·

2023/11/06

Tottenham Hotspur went unbeaten in the first ten games of the 2023/24 season. This was most unlike Spurs, who have spent the preceding 25 years being a perpetual bridesmaid, reaching domestic and European cup finals with only one League Cup to show for it. Gareth Thomas runs through the recent history of Spurs in An Echo of Glory, an excellent summary of the team's on- and off-pitch activity. Find the book here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Echo-Glory-Tottenham-Hotspur-Century-ebook/dp/B0CLDRP4KR

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00:33:08

George Mallett

jonny_brick ·

2023/10/30

Graham Potter was manager of OFK (Ostersunds) in the 2010s. At the time, Jamie Hopcutt was a key squad player, having been tempted to Sweden by his former York City team-mate. George Mallett was sat at a desk in East London following the Europa League run which climaxed at the Emirates. Now an athletics journalist, George tells his tale six years later in the book Potter, Hopcutt and a Desk in East London. Find the book here:

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00:34:09

Tony Rickson

jonny_brick ·

2023/10/22

In what can only be described as a busman's retirement, former newspaper man Tony Rickson has published three books since 2020: Gooaal! is about football celebrations; Football Is Nothing Without Fans is self-explanatory; the latest book Kicking On is a hymn to players who moved into new careers or activities after retirement. There will be a fourth book soon enough. Find Kicking On here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Kicking-Footballers-Post-Retirement-Game-Life-ebook/dp/B0CK53JBLF

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00:35:09

Tony Banks

jonny_brick ·

2023/10/16

Tony Banks is a tabloid football reporter has supported Fulham FC for 50 years, following them as they tossed around the lower leagues in the 1980s and 1990s. In 1997 the late Mohamed al-Fayed bought the club and propelled them into the Premier League. Tony has written The Great Adventure, which chronicles the team's activity on and off the pitch, reaching a high point at the Europa League final under Roy Hodgson. Find the book here:

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00:49:29

Marvin Close Returns

jonny_brick ·

2023/10/09

Marvin Close returns with a brand new book about 1953, the year of two famous matches at Wembley but with plenty more besides. A Coronation Cup for eight domestic teams took place in Scotland, while the England side toured South America over summer. The book on 1953 is a follow-up to Marvin's brilliant study of football and life in 1923, where the game finally emerged from the shadow of the Great War. Brimming with stories and factoids, both books should be an essential part of any football

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00:35:34

Matt Coughlan

jonny_brick ·

2023/10/02

After a short sabbatical between November 2022 and August 2023, the Football Literary Society resumed conversations with a new crop of authors who had brought out books in the interim period. Lapsed Arsenal fan Matt Coughlan auditioned for a new club to support and trotted around the non-league grounds of Essex. Whom did he choose, and what did he learn about the levels below the fully professional tier of English football? Find the book, a sequel to which Matt is already working on, here:

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01:06:48

George Michael At 60

jonny_brick ·

2023/06/23

George Michael is around the age of my mum, so it’s entirely plausible that in the 1970s they rode the same buses and trains in and around Stanmore. George, the mop-haired shy kid, was one of the most popular vocalists in the world of his time, certainly between 1984 and 1990. He wasn’t competing with Madonna or Prince or Michael Jackson, although his record labels would have said so; he wanted to be Stevie Wonder, a Capital-A artist, or Elton John. He would have turned 60 on June 25, an occasion

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00:34:51

78: Matthew Horton

jonny_brick ·

2022/11/14

Matthew Horton 1 Rio (2:30) 2 1001 Songs To Hear Before You Die (5:00) 3 Art vs The Artist (5:00) 4 The New (2:45) 5 Faith (3:10) 6 Paul Gambaccini (1:40) 7 Bare (3:00) 8 Soul Boy (3:45) 9 George and PR (4:20) 10 Bushey Boys (3:20) Total length: 34:45

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00:49:40

Rhys Richards

jonny_brick ·

2022/11/11

Cardiff City fan Rhys went back to 1978 in his book Blood on the Crossbar, the story of the Dictatorship’s World Cup held in Argentina. The host nation enjoyed a famous victory that sent three of their players to England (who were absent), but players boycotted and journalists spoke to mothers protesting the capture of their sons. Rhys is the 272nd visitor (counting all visits individually) to the Football Library, which will take an extended break until 2023. Look out for the novella Moz Winter:

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00:38:58

Raiford Guins

jonny_brick ·

2022/11/10

Leeds fan Raiford is a professor at Indiana University, with a focus on video games; indeed, he has co-authored the first academic study of EA Sports FIFA, as the game is called in the USA. Feeling Leeds is his sucessful attempt at fan literature. It’s a series of vignettes that dart from club jerseys, being an overseas supporter and inducting his young sun into Leodensian ways. Find the book here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Feeling-Leeds-Notes-Loving-Football-ebook/dp/B0BDSSRMTD/

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00:32:47

Jonathan Clegg And Joshua Robinson

jonny_brick ·

2022/11/09

Wall Street Journal writers Joshua and Jonathan wrote a history of the Premier League in 2018 called The Club, an extraordinary summary of why English football was rich, exciting and complicated. The best way to follow this book up? Messi v Ronaldo. What does the rivalry between the Flea from Rosario and the Madeiran marvel say about football, and the world, today? The authors talk to friends and critics about the two great players of the modern era. Find the book here:

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00:35:33

78: Ray Benson & David Menconi

jonny_brick ·

2022/11/07

1 Introducing David (1:40) 2 Introducing Ray (2:20) 3 The Yankee Hippie (2:50) 4 Asleep at the Record Industry (3:00) 5 Willie and the Wheel (3:10) 6 The Wheel on the Road (2:10) 7 A Consensus Act (1:45) 8 Minor Act on a Major Label (3:30) 9 David’s Favourite (2:20) 10 Bismeaux (1:20) 11 Ray as Folklorist (4:45) 12 Nudie Cohn and Felicity Kendal (3:50) 13 Asleep at the Wheel Archives (1:50) Total length: 35:30

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00:34:46

Neil Harman

jonny_brick ·

2022/11/07

All My Own Words is as ironic a title for Neil’s memoir as you can get: in 2014 he was ejected from his job covering tennis for The Times after quoting vast unattributed chunks of other writers’ work in a hastily written book for the Wimbledon tennis championships. Happily, his book on Wycombe Wanderers called Close Quarters rivals Family by Mike Calvin as the seminal ‘embedded journalist’ text. Neil used his experience as a football writer for the Daily Mail and in local news to gain the trust of

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