skyblueinswansea
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Hi all, has anyone got any good football recommendations with links to Cov? Ex players autobiographies or history books you would recommend, i am need of some holiday reading.
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Gray
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The Smell of Football by Mick Rathbone is a good read.. tenuous link but I think he helped out in the training room at Cov few years back for a couple of months
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skyblueinswansea
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Any really, i have read a few covering the 60s and also read some recent players autobiographies. Just looking for some entertaining reading.
Nick
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I still remember Big Ron promoting this at the Ricoh, was sat at a desk outside the city shop with nobody having a clue who he was when they went past!
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I still remember Big Ron promoting this at the Ricoh, was sat at a desk outside the city shop with nobody having a clue who he was when they went past!
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ricohroar
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If you are into reading about days gone by relating to football violence in Coventry? This is a story of a local Coventry fan with at least a chapter on CCFC but more for the fighting in the 80's than the football. I enjoyed it
If you are into reading about days gone by relating to football violence in Coventry? This is a story of a local Coventry fan with at least a chapter on CCFC but more for the fighting in the 80's than the football. I enjoyed it
Happy_Martian
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Mick Quinn's autobiography is fun and telling of his time in Sky Blue.
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And Craig Bellamy..... not read it, not recommending it. Just saying it's out there.
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@Nick..... this website seems to be breaking links to the Amazon site. If you link to a sales page, the website is changing it to a [Media] tag so you can't see the link or the actual page. I've added 2 links to the page and both are not showing. Whereas if I remove the https://, the URL shows fine.
And if you want a good autobiography not football related, the script writer for Morecambe and Wise penned one and I have to say, it's one of the best I've read. Eddie Braben and "The Book Wot I Wrote". Classic comedy in book form.
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And Craig Bellamy..... not read it, not recommending it. Just saying it's out there.
Amazon product ASIN B00D5FDNW4
@Nick..... this website seems to be breaking links to the Amazon site. If you link to a sales page, the website is changing it to a [Media] tag so you can't see the link or the actual page. I've added 2 links to the page and both are not showing. Whereas if I remove the https://, the URL shows fine.
And if you want a good autobiography not football related, the script writer for Morecambe and Wise penned one and I have to say, it's one of the best I've read. Eddie Braben and "The Book Wot I Wrote". Classic comedy in book form.
Amazon product ASIN 0340833742
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skyblueinswansea
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The links have come over to me fine thanks, appreciate the recommendation. I cant bring myself to read bellend's book, but will take up the recomendation of Micky Quinn cheers
AOM
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Enjoyed Bellamy's book. Not a massive amount said about his time at Cov tbh (says a lot really), but still an interesting read.
Hoofhearted
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I've read Gouldys and Big Cyrilles autobiographys both of them were excellent.
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clarriebourton
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I’ve got a few of these for £10 inc postage.
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clarriebourton
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...and some of these for £10 inc postage.
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skyblueinswansea
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...and some of these for £10 inc postage.
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thanks have already read both.
Bugsy
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I’ve got a few of these for £10 inc postage.
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What a game that was in my top 3 of all time loved every second of it.... PUSB
Frank Sidebottom
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This is alright for a quick read. Staying up is a great book though.
This is alright for a quick read. Staying up is a great book though.
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NortonSkyBlue
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Has anybody got a definitive list of books about Coventry City? Not autobiographies.
I have 21 such books and wonder if there are others? The miracle in sky blue is a book that I hadn’t heard of until this thread.
I have 21 such books and wonder if there are others? The miracle in sky blue is a book that I hadn’t heard of until this thread.
Kneeza
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It's just a fairly small softback, cheaply produced to celebrate the journey to the top flight.
Just means an awful lot to me, and brings back so many fantastic memories every time I flick through it.
No idea if it is available anywhere - prob not - but grab it if you can.
clarriebourton
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It was written by Marshall Stewart who was the football writer for the Coventry Standard in the 50s & 60s. I bought it outside Highbury on the day we played Arsenal for the first time in Div 1 (Sept 1967) for 3/6d I think. Marshall is still alive and lives in the Cotswolds and we are in regular contact.
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clarriebourton
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A couple worth getting hold of are Jim Holton’s biography Six Feet two, eyes of blue, which has a fair bit of City stuff. Also Green Shoots by Michael Walker, a story of Irish football which has a good chapter on Jackie Brown who played for City in the late 30s, left to join Brum controversially and played for Southern & Northern Ireland.
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Irish Sky Blue
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Miracle in Sky Blue, my first ever Coventry City book, still got my copy too, written by a guy called Marshall Stewart.
Irish Sky Blue
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Just see posts above
Kneeza
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Thanks Jim. Knew you'd know all about it. Next time you speak please tell him thanks!
Nick
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This is free on Kindle unlimited, thanks very much will read it
Nick
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Im going to get this at some point to see if it says much about CCFC.
Im going to get this at some point to see if it says much about CCFC.
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