Can We Play You Every Week?
Can We Play You Every Week? gets right under the skin of every football league club and captures the great moments all fans cherish. Packed with anecdotes, quotes, tall tales, small players, crooks,
corruption and crackpots, worst signings and bizarre injuries, this book is essential reading for anyone with the love of our national sport running through their veins.
Get the low-down on the chasm between rich teams and poor, find out which club was elected to the league without kicking a
ball and which goalie took a bung because he couldn’t sell his
bungalow. Be amazed at the club owner who believed in aliens
and the player whose career was ended by an ironing board. But, most of all, read about the heroism, love and loyalty of ordinary fans, the thousands who have kept their clubs going when the
chips were really down...
‘Velody’s prose brims with the sort of humour that keeps the
reader turning the page to mine more gems from the rich seam
of fact, trivia and anecdote he’s skilfully assembled. This is the
sort of writing that underpinned the rise of the fanzine movement
in the Nineties, but which is now in as short supply as
home-born players in the premiership.’
The Sunday Times
‘An irreverent study of all 92 league football clubs, this gem
of a book contains a host of facts that will not be found in more
solemn works of reference.’
Sunday Telegraph
‘A guide with attitude. It’s funny, irreverent and bound to cause controversy.’
Manchester Evening News
About the author
Max Velody is not that old but his match-day ticket costs precisely 432 times more than it did when he saw his first game. Bovril is Max's half-t