Conversations with fans of clubs in the top two divisions of English football.

The Football Literary Society Presents...Reading the 92 - Premier League & Championship

Writer and Liverpool fan Stuart has summarised the 30 years of the Premier League with a set of players who make up the Cornerstone Collection. Stuart picks a player from every club to have played in the division, eschewing convention to go for less heralded players.

In no other book celebrating the Premier League will you find eulogies to George Burley’s Ipswich Town, the Bolton and Charlton sides of Sam Allardyce and Alan Curbishley and players ranging from Gunnar Halle, Robert Huth, David Unsworth, Jason Puncheon and Ade Akinbiyi, one of 18 strikers among the Collection.

Find the book here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cornerstone-Collection-Sculpting-Premier-Leagues-ebook/dp/B0B39DRXDZ/

Stuart Quigley

Dan Tester wrote Brighton & Hove Albion On This Day in 2007. He updated it in 2011 and has just published a third edition. The last 13 years have been the most successful years in the club's 124-year history, with a new stadium, European awaydays and exciting South American talent passing through Falmer on their way to true greatness.

Dan talks about being a Brighton fan then and now, and rhapsodises about the three cult heroes on the cover of the book who appear alongside Lewis Dunk and Mark Lawrenson.

Find the book here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Brighton-Hove-Albion-This-Day/dp/1399990527

Dan Tester

Dean has used his experience in the football industry to set up Oporto Sports Management. Based in Leicester, he offers bespoke services to professionals who want to branch out into speaking, coaching or other work. He was instrumental in the deal which took Nigel Pearson (pictured) to Watford FC in 2019.

Dean has worked with Darius Vassell, rugby star Neil Back and Emile Heskey on their memoirs; Emile’s book Even Heskey Scored was shortlisted for the Telegraph Sports Book Awards. Dean has a book in the works about Leicester City in the 1990s; he was briefly the club’s media manager.

Find Even Heskey Scored here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Even-Heskey-Scored-Emile-Story-ebook/dp/B07X4X6NJL

Dean Eldredge - First Half

Dean Eldredge - Second Half

Apathetic about football except when it involves Watford, Dougie has written about football fan culture along with his brother Eddy in titles such as Everywhere We Go, Eurotrashed and Derby Days. He is best known for his work on the movie Green Street, and his novel Top Dog was also turned into a film. 

Dougie’s book In The Know is the third in the Billy Evans series, which also features Top Dog, and is available here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B083XN5BXY

Dougie Brimson - First Half

Dougie Brimson - Second Half

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).

Dan Tester

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