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Football Book Club

By: The Football Book Club
  • Summary

  • Like your books less Dickens, more Dickov? Football Book Club gets stuck into the true classics of the literary world - footballers’ autobiographies. As recommended by BBC Five Live, The Athletic, The Sunday Times and named one of Esquire's best comedy podcasts around right now. Described as “pretty funny” by Darren Huckerby.

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Episodes
  • Dwight Yorke's 'Born To Score'
    Apr 15 2024

    It's the last episode of Series 5 :(. But we're going out with a bang, as we read Manchester United legend Dwight Yorke's explosive 2009 autobiography 'Born To Score'. Featuring treble heroics, the truth behind his romance with Jordan, and keepie uppies in a bin. Plus partying with Colin Montgomerie, David May's 'wicked' sense of humour and Quinton Fortune - the most delicate soul in footballing history.


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    1 hr and 16 mins
  • Football Book Club On Tour: Rome (with Francesco Totti)
    Apr 1 2024

    Football Book Club are going international! As James heads to spectacular Rome armed only with a city guide written by its most famous son - AS Roma legend Francesco Totti. Totti penned 'E mo'te spiego Roma' ('And Now I'll Explain To You Rome') in 2012, and now, on what was meant to be a romantic weekend away with his fiancé, James will be taking in the sights, learning about the city and enjoying some downright bizarre football anecdotes courtesy of Francesco. Keeping in touch with the rest of the Book Club back home all the way. Can he see it all in five days? Is it a good idea to leave your holiday in the hands of a footballer? And will his fiancé have left him by the end of it? Find out as we head to Italy...


    Enjoy the show and want to hear more? Join the Football Book Club *Club* at www.patreon.com/footballbookclub


    Follow us on Twitter - https://twitter.com/FootieBookClub


    Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/footballbookclub/


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    51 mins
  • Julian Joachim's 'You Must Be Joachim'
    Mar 18 2024

    A late contender for best book title of the series, this week we're reading former Aston Villa, Leicester and Coventry City forward Julian Joachim's 2023 autobiography 'You Must Be Joachim'.


    Featuring the ups and downs of a career which sampled the Premier League to the Gibraltar National League, Julian causing a stink in the dressing room (literally) and failed Chinese restaurants co-owned with Steve Walsh. Plus brushes with Hollywood, what connects Julian and the Kardashians and quite possibly the best Ken Zong yet. Julian might be Joachim, but were we laughing by the end of it? Find out now!


    Enjoy the show and want to hear more? Join the Football Book Club *Club* at www.patreon.com/footballbookclub


    Follow us on Twitter - https://twitter.com/FootieBookClub


    Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/footballbookclub/


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    1 hr and 7 mins

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