In Episode 19, the Ademola Bookmen Podcast takes an ecclesiastical turn with our review of God’s book – Robbie Fowler’s, My Autobiography.

Kop legend and the eighth highest scorer in the Premier League, Fowler notched a total of 183 goals for his boyhood club Liverpool who he left in reasonably acrimonious circumstances in 2001 only to return again in 2006. While he wasn’t scoring goals, Fowler was often getting himself in trouble albeit for more cheeky antics than anything else. Despite attaining a level of immortality in his native Liverpool, he only played 26 times for England. The second half of his career was sadly blighted by injury.

This book was written during a dark spell for Fowler, while he was playing for Man City, but it was released shortly after he rejoined Liverpool. Tune in to find out how Al and Johnny found this one. And please do press that like button.

It’s Episode 18 and its Johan Cruyff’s My Turn for the Ademola Bookmen Podcast. Join us as we take a trip through the life of arguably the best influential person in the history of football.

Cruyff won the European Cup three times with Ajax, the team whose stadium he grew up across the road from. He also invented the modern game of football with the Total Football of the Netherlands in 1974 and went on to build the footballing cathedral of Barcelona, to borrow a line from his protégé and heir, Pep Guardiola.

A true great both on the pitch – the greatest European of the 20th century to some – as well as off the pitch, with a coaching philosophy that has gone on to conquer world football. But is the book any good? Tune in to find out.

It’s Episode 17 and we are reading Boyeln Boy by Mr. West Ham himself, Mark Noble. Having been released in November 2022, this is by far the most recent book we have reviewed. Noble famously played for only one club (if you don’t count the time he spent at Arsenal, Hull, and Ipswich) but this book is perhaps most memorable for the revelation that he’s really a Man United fan.

Putting that juicy morsel to one side for a moment, Noble played a million times for West Ham and never for England (or indeed for Ireland). Have a listen and see how Al and Johnny got on with Noble’s 18 year career at his home town club.