books about Pep and Mour, you can try Marti Perarnau's Pep Confidential about his debut season at Bayern, The Special One by Diego Torres about Mourinho's 'dark side'.
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Definitely will check them out. Thanks.
do you have a link to that quote?
what's the most recent football book you know?
I've gone through a few in the past year.
Rio Ferdinand's
Sir Alex's
Bellamy's
Redknapp's
Warnock's
Guardiola's
Keith Gillespie's
And one called Every Boy's Dream, which is about the youth/academy system in England.
None are particluarly recent though. I have Neville's latest one still to read, and one about Villas Boaz too, after Mourinho's.
Hoping to do a bit of shopping on Amazon, and pick up four or five new ones.
I most enjoyed Bellamy's and the Guardiola one.
Pirlo's book looks very interesting. He's got some killer anecdotes and comes across as the most glorious manly man of all time. Suave motherfecker, this Pirlo.
He is a weird man. His sideline behaviour and actions look funny and weird at the same time.
seems most are bios. are you interested in stuff like "inverting pyramid" or "brilliant orange" and the likes?
as a United fan, I just couldn't stop laughing knowing the part about Park Ji-sung
Good book that by Barclay. Read it recently. Balague's is fantastic.
Yeah, I am into those too. I think I was after Rio's and Sir Alex's and ended up being linked to other bios. And then ended up buying loads.
Will probably go for some like Inverting pyramid, which I've heard about. There's also one about scouting, which has mixed reviews, that I might buy. I also want to find a few about the commercial side of things.
I think I'm an armchair/would-be psychologist, which is why I veer towards biographies.
I find it hard to believe Rio Ferdinand has written a book.
140 characters at a time, I'm guessing..
That video
I start to dislike him more and more for some reason
Because he is a prick tbh, maybe even a bigger one than Mou
@Fortitude
i read it from soccernet. i tried to get it back for you but apparently they have purged their old articles prior to year 2000 hence it's no longer searchable. and no easy google search can be done neither. the most closest wordings i can recall would be manchester united could score all kind of goals that can be found in football.
. yorke & cole could do penetration at the central area;
. giggs could cross from deep and beckham could cross from high line, or beckham could send out from a freekick and we had players who could score from powerful headers (from pallister/bruce to stam/johnson) or from a diver (yorke) or from a runner by the near post (keano);
. both beckham and scholes could pass a 50 yard through ball from deep to pick up a runner;
. giggs could do a solo run on his own;
. beckham could score directly from excellent free kicks or from long shots;
. keano, butt & scholes were all good in picking up rebounds;
. we had ole as an opportunitist inside the box to be our assassin;
. sheringham could carry out some play making role as a no 10;
. mr reliable would never miss a penalty kick
what else i missed?
i was not aware of that until i read it and he was very right
i read it from soccernet. i tried to get it back for you but apparently they have purged their old articles prior to year 2000 hence it's no longer searchable. and no easy google search can be done neither. the most closest wordings i can recall would be manchester united could score all kind of goals that can be found in football.
. yorke & cole could do penetration at the central area;
. giggs could cross from deep and beckham could cross from high line, or beckham could send out from a freekick and we had players who could score from powerful headers (from pallister/bruce to stam/johnson) or from a diver (yorke) or from a runner by the near post (keano);
. both beckham and scholes could pass a 50 yard through ball from deep to pick up a runner;
. giggs could do a solo run on his own;
. beckham could score directly from excellent free kicks or from long shots;
. keano, butt & scholes were all good in picking up rebounds;
. we had ole as an opportunitist inside the box to be our assassin;
. sheringham could carry out some play making role as a no 10;
. mr reliable would never miss a penalty kick
what else i missed?
i was not aware of that until i read it and he was very right
He's on to something as we did score 359 goals in three seasons with that gorgeous squad. 
It's a fun read, Pirlo's book. It's short enough that you could probably polish it off in one afternoon. It's a bit of a jumble though. I predict he was 6 wines deep everytime he took to his dictaphone, and there is no chronology to it. It's just snippets of things that have happened, as he remembers them whilst half-cut, probably.
Tim Howard's is great, and probably the best footballer autobiography I have read. He comes across as a great guy with enormous personality and character, as well as a lot of insight to his condition. From reading a fair few footballer autobiographies, none really talk about the challenges faced when first breaking into professional football. They give the impression that they just strolled into it. There's a real focus on what Howard has gone through and the work he put in to overcome obstacles to get where he is. It's a very uplifting read, and he is a very likeable guy.
Does Howard talk much about his affection for European football?
Listening Benitez it's shockingThat video