Brian Clough: The Biography: Nobody Ever Says Thank You by Jonathan Wilson – review
In separating the man from the myth, Jonathan Wilson's biography of Brian Clough is the first to do him justiceThirty years and an entire cycle of footballing modernity on from his grandest deeds, perhaps the most interesting thing about Brian Clough i...
William Hill award won by Ronald Reng’s biography of Robert Enke
• Judges praise book on goalkeeper who took his own life• A Life Too Short: The Tragedy of Robert Enke 'outstanding'Ronald Reng has won the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award 2011 for A Life Too Short: The Tragedy of Robert Enke. Reng's bio...
Paul Gascoigne: Alive and kicking
Paul Gascoigne was a one-off – the most talented British football player of his generation. Then came the drink, the domestic violence, that Raoul Moat incident and rumours of an early death. Now back in rehab, playing six-a-side with his therap...
Babysitting George by Celia Walden – review
Celia Walden's memoir of her time shadowing the ailing George Best is merely muck-raking tabloid journalism dressed up as something grander"I spotted a posse of journalists immediately loading themselves up with fried breakfasts… the most tenacious d...
Danielle
a life toward soccer, pt 3
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The TIAS Diary Project continues with the 3rd part of a series put together by Los Angeles artist Noe Valladolid. This is his life story, his soccer story in words and pictures. For the first installment, I referred to it as a stab at a TIAS comic...
