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The Ademola Bookmen Podcast

By: johncoughlan7
  • Summary

  • Football and books, or rather, football books. Hosts Al Bond and Johnny Coughlan read footballers’ autobiographies and discuss them for you. Very kind of them. Music from the wonderful Darragh Fenlon, available on Spotify and Apple Music
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Episodes
  • Episode 16: Robbie Savage - Savage!
    Jul 2 2024

    Episode 16 focuses on the life and times of that most overlooked of the Class of 92, Robbie Savage.

    Less famous for his time as an underweight and underscoring striker in the Man United Youth Team than he is for his displays as an all tackling, all bullshiting midfielder for Leicester, Birmingham and Blackburn and others, Robbie is by his own admission something of a marmite character.

    Throughout his 2011 book Savage! (complete with exclamation mark in the title) Robbie says that people should meet him before they judge him. If you are not particularly interested in meeting him but would like to judge him, join us for our latest episode and listen to us discuss the travails of 90s and 00s most recognizable Premier League ponytail.

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    57 mins
  • Episode 15: Neil Warnock - The Gaffer
    Jun 19 2024

    With a career in English football going all the way back to 1967, Neil Warnock has traveled to every corner of the country. In his 2013 book, The Gaffer – The Trials and Tribulations of a Football Manager, Warnock outlines his view of the football world. It’s an old fashion view, in many respects, but a romantic one too.

    Less an autobiography than an insight into the day-to-day running of a Championship/Premier League team, the book covers Warnock’s likes (wingers, Scott Parker, his son William, the British Monarchy) and dislikes (Shaun Wright Philips, Graham Poll, the design of the Premier League trophy).

    Tune in to find out more about what it is that makes football’s most dislikeable looking man tick and find out what Al and Johnny made of Warnock's offering to the literary canon.

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    53 mins
  • Episode 14: James Milner - Ask a Footballer
    Jun 4 2024

    James Milner's first appearance in the Premier League was as a substitute for Manchester United's new technical director, Jason Wilcox. He is that bloody old. 634 Premier League appearances later, he may soon takeover Gareth Barry as the player with the most appearances of all.

    In 2019, he wrote Ask a Footballer, which is not so much an autobiography as it is a collection of thoughts - musings even - on the life of a Premier League footballer.

    Ultimately, the thing that most people interested in this book want to know is, is James Milner as boring as they say. Tune in for Episode 14 to find out.

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    52 mins

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