Shows
jonny_brick78: Matthew HortonMatthew Horton
1 Rio (2:30)
2 1001 Songs To Hear Before You Die (5:00)
3 Art vs The Artist (5:00)
4 The New (2:45)
5 Faith (3:10)
6 Paul Gambaccini (1:40)
7 Bare (3:00)
8 Soul Boy (3:45)
9 George and PR (4:20)
10 Bushey Boys (3:20)
Total length: 34:45
2022-11-1434 min
jonny_brickThe Football Library Radio Show: Rhys RichardsCardiff City fan Rhys went back to 1978 in his book Blood on the Crossbar, the story of the Dictatorship’s World Cup held in Argentina.
The host nation enjoyed a famous victory that sent three of their players to England (who were absent), but players boycotted and journalists spoke to mothers protesting the capture of their sons.
Rhys is the 272nd visitor (counting all visits individually) to the Football Library, which will take an extended break until 2023. Look out for the novella Moz Winter: Albion Manager later in the month.
Find the book here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Blood-Crossbar-Dictatorships-World-Cup/dp...
2022-11-1149 min
jonny_brickThe Football Library Radio Show: Raiford GuinsLeeds fan Raiford is a professor at Indiana University, with a focus on video games; indeed, he has co-authored the first academic study of EA Sports FIFA, as the game is called in the USA.
Feeling Leeds is his sucessful attempt at fan literature. It’s a series of vignettes that dart from club jerseys, being an overseas supporter and inducting his young sun into Leodensian ways.
Find the book here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Feeling-Leeds-Notes-Loving-Football-ebook/dp/B0BDSSRMTD/
2022-11-1038 min
jonny_brickThe Football Library Radio Show: Jonathan Clegg And Joshua RobinsonWall Street Journal writers Joshua and Jonathan wrote a history of the Premier League in 2018 called The Club, an extraordinary summary of why English football was rich, exciting and complicated. The best way to follow this book up? Messi v Ronaldo.
What does the rivalry between the Flea from Rosario and the Madeiran marvel say about football, and the world, today? The authors talk to friends and critics about the two great players of the modern era.
Find the book here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Messi-vs-Ronaldo-Rivalry-Remade-ebook/dp/B09RWWSW97
2022-11-0932 min
jonny_brick78: Ray Benson & David Menconi1 Introducing David (1:40)
2 Introducing Ray (2:20)
3 The Yankee Hippie (2:50)
4 Asleep at the Record Industry (3:00)
5 Willie and the Wheel (3:10)
6 The Wheel on the Road (2:10)
7 A Consensus Act (1:45)
8 Minor Act on a Major Label (3:30)
9 David’s Favourite (2:20)
10 Bismeaux (1:20)
11 Ray as Folklorist (4:45)
12 Nudie Cohn and Felicity Kendal (3:50)
13 Asleep at the Wheel Archives (1:50)
Total length: 35:30
2022-11-0735 min
jonny_brickThe Football Library Radio Show: Neil HarmanAll My Own Words is as ironic a title for Neil’s memoir as you can get: in 2014 he was ejected from his job covering tennis for The Times after quoting vast unattributed chunks of other writers’ work in a hastily written book for the Wimbledon tennis championships.
Happily, his book on Wycombe Wanderers called Close Quarters rivals Family by Mike Calvin as the seminal ‘embedded journalist’ text. Neil used his experience as a football writer for the Daily Mail and in local news to gain the trust of manager Gareth Ainsworth and several members of the Chairboys squad.
Find All My O...
2022-11-0734 min
jonny_brickThe Football Library Radio Show: Stewart McGill And Vincent RaisonThe Roaring Red Front is a football travelogue with lashings of beer. Stewart, a writer for newspaper the Morning Star, and Vincent, a writer and bon viveur heard on the Deserter Pubcast, globetrot to Argentina, Spain, Italy, the USA, St Pauli and Dulwich in search of clubs with leftwing ideals.
Some clubs wear their allegiances on their sleeves, while others are tolerant of various causes and issues. Throughout the trek around the world, Vincent and Stewart collect anecdotes and friends.
Find the book here: https://www.pitchpublishing.co.uk/shop/roaring-red-front
2022-11-0434 min
jonny_brickThe Football Library Radio Show: Matt Clough ReturnsBolton fan Matt has written a book on The Match of the Century, when Hungary came to Wembley Stadium and destroyed England 6-3.
He places the game in the context of the times, in which the Mighty Magyars lost one game (the 1954 World Cup final) in four years and England were still recovering from a torrid first World Cup appearance in 1950
Find the book here: www.thehistorypress.co.uk/publication/the-match-of-the-century/9780750998147/
2022-11-0335 min
jonny_brickThe Football Library Radio Show: Jon Driscoll ReturnsMiddlesbrough fan Jon returns to the Library to promote his investigation into the soul of football in England, Get It Kicked! Has football changed for the worse or for the better? There are better surfaces and a continental approach to tactics, and the international team are reaching World Cup semi-finals. Yet ‘kick it long’ has its advocates too.
Find the book here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Kicked-Battle-Soul-English-Football/dp/1801501939
2022-11-0237 min
jonny_brickThe Football Library Radio Show: Paul MouldenManchester City youth product Paul Moulden is still best known for the 340 goals he scored for Bolton Lads Club before he became a professional. He was, to use the title of his memoir, Lethal.
His three sons have all followed Paul and his dad into the game. Two of them have inherited Paul’s bad luck with injuries, which cost the striker his career. Before he had to retire, he played for Oldham Athletic and Bournemouth, but enjoyed a few seasons at Bacup Borough while he ran Paul’s Chippy.
Find the book here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Lethal-Goals-Season-Extraordinary-Moulden-ebook/dp/B...
2022-10-3135 min
jonny_brickThe Football Library Radio Show: Dick ChesterBorn in Lincoln, Dick started as an administrator at Lincoln City in the era of Graham Taylor. He then worked as Club Secretary at both clubs in Sheffield, United and Wednesday, taking on pretty much every non-coaching role including marketing, matchday affairs and convening board meetings.
In collaboration with Wednesday fan John Dyson, Dick’s memoir Football – An Insider’s Job pulls back the proverbial curtain on football in the pre-Premier League era.
Find the book here: https://www.1889books.co.uk/dick-chester
2022-10-2845 min
jonny_brickThe Football Library Radio Show: Danny WilsonIn 2000, Danny was named Premier League Manager of the Month while manager of Sheffield Wednesday. He had already managed Barnsley in the top tier after a 20-year playing career with Bury, Chesterfield, Luton, Brighton, Wednesday and, for a few months, Nottingham Forest.
His memoir I Get Knocked Down details his 40 years in the football industry, which took him around the country and included over a thousand games in the dugout.
Find the book here: https://www.morganlawrence.co.uk/product/i-get-knocked-down-danny-wilson/
2022-10-2635 min
jonny_brickThe Football Library Radio Show: Matt RileyExeter City fan Matt lived out in East Asia while his beloved Grecians were taken over by a Supporters’ Trust, of which Matt is part. He attends both men’s and women’s games, sponsoring a player from Exeter City Ladies.
In 2022 Matt released two books inside a matter of months: Kit & Caboodle is a sociological history of the football shirt, while Her Game Too illustrates the ways in which female fans have pushed for football to be safe for them to enjoy.
Find Kit & Caboodle here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1801501513/
Find Her Game Too here: https://www.am...
2022-10-2438 min
jonny_brickThe Football Library Radio Show: Callum MurrayA lad from the estates of Huyton, Liverpool, Callum has written Something in the Water about the hotbeds of talent in the UK and around the world.
Encouraged by cage football and Simon Clifford’s enthusiasm for the Brazilian form of futebol de salao, Callum puts together a thesis for developing young players and tapping into the fertile grounds of South London, the ‘concrete Catalonia’.
Find the book here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0B8BWPQYB/
2022-10-2140 min
jonny_brickThe Football Library Radio Show: Tony DaleyAnother pro with some prose, Tony Daley suffered painful injuries which curtailed his career in the 1990s. Having come through at Aston Villa, he played seven times for England including at EURO 92, then followed Graham Taylor to Wolves and Watford.
Tony’s memoir The Daley Record details his pro career as a winger whose feet dazzled crowds and defenders alike. Today he is a fitness coach who works with elite professionals. Find his 7D site here: https://7d-fitforlife.co.uk/
Find the book here: https://www.morganlawrence.co.uk/product/the-daley-record-tony-daley/
2022-10-1953 min
jonny_brickThe Football Library Radio Show: David ProudloveStoke City fan David has made a living looking at the use of land. It is entirely appropriate that his book, When The Circus Leaves Town, takes as its subject the move from one stadium to another by a panoply of football clubs.
What is gained and lost when a club, such as Stoke themselves in 1997, take their ball into a brand new cathedral?
Find the book here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/When-Circus-Leaves-Town-Football/dp/1801501734/
2022-10-1734 min
jonny_brickThe Football Library Radio Show: John Dyson ReturnsSheffield Wednesday fan John was the 13th person to visit the Library back in June 2020. Since then his beloved Owls have dropped into the third tier and hired Darren Moore as manager.
More significantly, John has written a book about the 1984-86 period where, under Howard Wilkinson, Wednesday were Back in the Big Time.
Find the book here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Back-Big-Time-Sheffield-Wednesdays/dp/180150170X
2022-10-1440 min
jonny_brickThe Football Library Radio Show: Chris Lee ReturnsFor his second book, the follow-up to Origin Stories, Chris takes the reader on a world tour of anti-fascism in football. He lists the brave men who stood up to Hitler, Franco, Mussolini and sundry dictators.
Find the book here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Defiant-History-Football-Against-Fascism/dp/1801501858
2022-10-1035 min
jonny_brickThe Football Library Radio Show: Chris EvansNo, not that one. This is Chris Evans the freelance writer who edits football website The Set Pieces. He has written a timely book telling the reader How To Win the World Cup containing insights from managers who have tried or are trying to do so.
Featuring contributions from Roberto Martinez, Graham Hunter and Alexei Lalas, Chris outlines the path from minnow to champion.
Find the book here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Win-World-Cup-International/dp/147299079X
2022-10-0736 min
jonny_brickThe Football Library Radio Show: Geoff Wicken In The LibraryWatford fan Geoff was in charge of 100 Years at Vicarage Road, a celebration of a century of games at the humble stadium next to Watford General Hospital.
It has seen motorbike football, boxing, horse shows, Elton John concerts and a few thousand football matches. With photos, essays by Geoff and recollections from fan, players and an Honorary Life President, the book will be under several Christmas Trees this year in and around Hertfordshire. It’s also a fine tribute to the football ground.
This chat took place in person, making it the first time in the 260 Football Library shows that th...
2022-10-0339 min
jonny_brickThe Football Library Radio Show: Neil Jensen ReturnsChelsea fan Neil has put together a list of The Great Uncrowned: teams which never won a big tournament but who remain legends of their time despite being ‘celebrated losers’. International and domestic sides from the last century, led by eccentric or brilliant managers, make Neil’s list.
Find the book here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Great-Uncrowned-Footballs-Celebrated-Football/dp/1801501777/
2022-09-3042 min
jonny_brick78: Will Hodgkinson1 The Art and the Artist (4:20)
2 The Mercury Prize (4:25)
3 Reviewing (2:50)
4 Times Rock Critics (2:00)
5 In Perfect Harmony (6:00)
6 Brickie Glam (3:30)
7 The Wombles (2:20)
8 Will’s Catalogue (4:30)
9 Encounters with Rockers (3:10)
10 The Family Trade (4:30)
Total length: 38:30
2022-09-2738 min
jonny_brickThe Football Library Radio Show: John Smith ReturnsThe Football Library applauds those who read football books, but John Smith has gone the extra 12 yards. Following Booked and Second Yellow, Final Third! completes the trilogy of tomes from West Ham fan John.
From forewords to boardroom members via holidays and backroom staff, John has read over 300 books so we don’t have to, filleting the best anecdotes and themes from the football memoir. Allegedly this is the ‘last word on our football heroes’ but, as John says, ‘there’s always extra time’…
Find the book here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Final-Third-Last-Football-Heroes-ebook/dp/B0BDGGN8M2
2022-09-2336 min
jonny_brickThe Football Library Radio Show: Daniel Hurley ReturnsWest Ham fan Daniel, who is getting married the week this visit is broadcast, has followed up his book on West Ham’s Great Escape with one that takes in 50 matches in the last 30 years.
Expect highs, lows and Paolo Di Canio. Find the book, The Games That Made Us, here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Games-That-Made-Us-Thirty-ebook/dp/B0B9856J69/
2022-09-2035 min
jonny_brick78: Garth Cartwright1 Afrobeats in Peckham (2:20)
2 Charlie Gillett (4:25)
3 More Miles Than Money (4:15)
4 Record Shops (4:05)
5 Jazz (3:40)
6 Good Music and Bad Music (6:25)
7 Balkan Music(4:10)
Total length: 30m10
2022-09-2030 min
jonny_brick78: Daryl Easlea1 Generalist (1:50)
2 Whatever Happened To Slade? (5:10)
3 Easlea Like A Sunday Morning (3:05)
4 Slade on Tour (4:40)
5 Record Shops (2:20)
6 Music Consumption (4:00)
7 Nile Rodgers (4:00)
8 Motown (3:50)
9 Sparks (3:15)
10 Peter Gabriel (4:20)
Total length: 36:30
2022-09-1436 min
jonny_brickThe Football Library Radio Show: John McNicoll ReturnsJohn’s second book, following his ode to the 4-4-2 formation, focuses on the ‘piano players’ who drove their teams to success. With plenty of nearlymen also featured, John picks ten of the Chosen Few, who include figures from Argentina, France, Brazil, Hungary, Liverpool, Rome and Amsterdam.
Find the book here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ode-Chosen-Few-Footballs-Players/dp/1801501556
2022-09-1236 min
jonny_brickThe Football Library Radio Show: Jon Berry ReturnsBirmingham City fan Jon returns to the Library for the 250th visit, bringing an Armchair Guide to the Qatar World Cup taking place while the Library is closed over December.
Jon looks at the social and cultural issues around the World Cup without going over the controversy of 2010 when it was awarded to a state no bigger than ‘a small hotel’ as one critic said.
Find the book here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Armchair-Fans-Guide-Qatar-World/dp/1801503729/
2022-09-0535 min
jonny_brickThe Football Library Radio Show: Jeff Goulding ReturnsThis September, every author who visits the Library will be making a return pilgrimage to drop off another of their books.
To start, it’s the turn of Liverpool fanatic Jeff who has written a new afterword for the paperback publication of Stanley Park Story, which arrives as Liverpool and Everton meet in the top division for the sixtieth year in a row.
Find the book here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Stanley-Park-Story-Merseyside-Derby/dp/1801502439
2022-09-0245 min
jonny_brick78: Annie Zaleski1 Describing Music before the Internet (2:45)
2 Gaga as Star (3:00)
3 Gaga as Businesswoman (3:00)
4 Gaga as Barbra (3:20)
5 Duran Duran (2:45)
6 33 1/3 (3:20)
7 The B-52s (5:55)
8 Gaga the Perfectionist (2:00)
9 REM (4:50)
10 ’20 more grey hairs!’ (3:50)
Total length: 35:40
2022-09-0135 min
jonny_brickThe Football Library Radio Show: Spencer Vignes ReturnsBrighton fan Spencer hit upon a story when he was talking to record-equalling goalkeeper Eric Gill. Eric told him that he was playing bowls with Dave Hollins, who had also played for Brighton in the 1960s, and Spencer couldn’t believe his luck.
He has told the story of Eric and Dave in his new book, which takes readers back to the days of retain and transfer. It is a fine addition both to goalkeeping literature and the Football Library.
Find the book here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Eric-Dave-Lifetime-Football-Friendship-ebook/dp/B0B3W22KPD
2022-08-2951 min
jonny_brickThe Football Library Radio Show: Roger LytollisCarlisle United fan Roger has just published a memoir of his time as a local journalist, Panic As Man Burns Crumpets. It follows a look at statues around the UK called On A Pedestal.
In 2004, Roger helped goalkeeper Jimmy Glass write his book One Hit Wonder, centred around the moment Glass will always be remembered for: scoring a last-minute goal to keep Carlisle in the Football League and, some say, in existence.
Find the Jimmy Glass book here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/One-Hit-Wonder-Jimmy-Greats/dp/0752431811
Find the new book here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Panic-Man-Burns-Crumpets-Journalist/dp/1472145798/
2022-08-2639 min
jonny_brickThe Football Library Radio Show: Ryan Hills ReturnsDerby fan Ryan has already written a book on the last 20 years of his beloved club. He returns to the Library to talk about Groundwork, which focuses on the period just before that when Jim Smith made the club a stable Premier League side.
Steve McClaren was a fine assistant manager at Jim’s side, while top international talent like Igor Stimac and Paolo Wanchope were automatic starters alongside Rory Delap, Lee Carsley and Christian Dailly.
Find the book here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Groundwork-Inside-Behind-Smiths-County/dp/1801500886
2022-08-2235 min
jonny_brickThe Football Library Radio Show: Kit HoldenBased in Berlin, Kit has been writing about German football for a decade for various publications and websites. In that time Union Berlin have become a top-level Bundesliga club and will enter the Europa League in the 2022/23 season. In 2005, they were in the fifth tier but climbed the divisions through discipline and a strong fan ownership.
Kit has documented this rise in his book Scheisse! We’re Going Up! whose title explains the dichotomy of a fan-run club competing against RB Leipzig, Bayern Munich and the best teams on the continent.
Find the book here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sc...
2022-08-1935 min
jonny_brick78: Lucy O'Brien1 She Bop (3:20)
2 Skin and Skunk Anansie (4:45)
3 Strong Female Characters (3:20)
4 Madge (5:30)
5 Annie and Siouxsie (5:00)
6 Lucy at the NME (6:15)
7 ‘Capturing That Energy’ (3:35)
8 Owning Her Music (3:30)
Total length: 34:34
2022-08-1534 min
jonny_brickThe Football Library Radio Show: Phil McNulty & Jim WhiteManchester United fan Jim returns to the Library and brings his Oxford neighbour Phil McNulty, who is the Chief Football Writer for the BBC Sport website, making him one of the most-read football critics in the world. Though he grew up in Liverpool and his wife is a massive Red, Phil is neutral.
Red on Red is a book about what many would call the Phil Chisnall Derby, named after the last player to move directly between the two clubs on the M62 motorway. Since then, both sides have had dominant eras but have seldom competed directly for the title...
2022-08-1536 min
jonny_brickThe Football Library Radio Show: Rocco Dean ReturnsFor his third book on his beloved Leeds United, Rocco takes the reader back to a time after O’Leary but before Bielsa. League One Leeds reminds us of the lowest ebb of the team’s recent history, where they played in the third tier for three years between 2007 and 2010.
Scunthorpe, Crewe, Yeovil, Hereford and Carlisle were some of the towns the former Champions League semi-finalists went to. Simon Grayson eventually helped the club to promotion, while players like Jermaine Beckford, Robert Snodgrass and local lad Fabian Delph were regulars.
Find the book here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/League-One-Leeds-Journey-Through/dp/1...
2022-08-0843 min
jonny_brickThe Football Library Radio Show: Richard CrooksSheffield Wednesday fan Richard has published five books including one on the Sheffield derby. His What Was Football Like… collection summarises English football across four decades from the 1960s, inspired by his grandson Charlie’s desire to know about the game’s past.
His most recent covers the 1990s, considering the Taylor Report, the Bosman Ruling and the paywall erected by Sky.
Find Richard’s collected works here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Richard-Crooks/e/B00V4IJIFK
2022-08-0134 min
jonny_brickThe Football Library Radio Show: Stuart QuigleyWriter 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://ww...
2022-07-2934 min
jonny_brick78: Robin Murray1 Clash Magazine (5:00)
2 The Rock Band Today (5:00)
3 Rock Criticism Then and Now (2:50)
4 Lizzo (2:05)
5 Clash Bands (3:20)
6 Listen To This If You Love Great Music (3:10)
7 Creativity (2:00)
8 Equality Act Criticism (4:15)
9 Rubric (6:15)
10 Oasis (2:50)
Total length: 35:55
2022-07-2535 min
jonny_brickThe Football Library Radio Show: Daniel Williamson ReturnsFresh from an appearance on the Brazilian Shirt Name podcast, Daniel returns to the Library to promote When Two Worlds Collide. His focus is the Intercontinental Cup, which pitted the winners of the European Cup and the Copa Libertadores in the 1960s to the early 2000s.
Daniel chronicles the big teams of each era and the move of the tournament to Tokyo, when it became the Toyota Cup and presaged the development of FIFA’s own Club World Championships.
Find the book here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/When-Two-Worlds-Collide-Intercontinental/dp/1801501459
2022-07-2535 min
jonny_brickThe Football Library Radio Show: Robert EndeacottLeeds fan Robert popped into the Library having returned from painting a mural at Elland Road. Having written books on the Don Revie era when Leeds played in all three European competitions, he has collaborated with Dave Cocker, the son of coach Les, to tell the story of a pioneer of English coaching.
Cocker Hoop takes readers back to the interwar days where Les grew up in Stockport, where he began his playing career when he finished his National Service. Having gained one of the first certificates for coaching, he started at Luton Town before moving to Yorkshire. Les died...
2022-07-2235 min
jonny_brickThe Football Library Radio Show: Tom UnderhillFrom Yeovil in Somerset, Tom edits the First Time Finish website which aims to tell ‘original and untold stories’ in football. His Masters thesis took punditry as its theme, while he has worked on social media teams for tournaments including the Premier League.
His first book The Working Hands of a Goddess covers the remarkable rise of Atalanta, the little club in Bergamo who have reached cup finals and have qualified for European competition under the management of Gian Piero Gasperini. Tom looks at every aspect of the club, from tactics to the Bergamasque community and culture.
Find the book here...
2022-07-1836 min
jonny_brickThe Football Library Radio Show: Cliff HagueManchester United fan Cliff tells the story of football and ‘life from wartime to lockdown’ in his book Programmes! Programmes! His collection of 2000 programmes live in a dedicated room in his house.
A professor of urban planning who is used to writing academic books, Cliff uses football matches to guide us through Britain in his lifetime, with a focus on the contents of matchday programmes. From adverts to interviews, Cliff has found a new way to give readers a longitudinal study.
Find the book here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Programmes-Football-Life-Wartime-Lockdown/dp/178531856X
2022-07-1537 min
jonny_brickThe Football Library Radio Show: James KellyWrexham fan James has looked into the heritage of the Belgium national team for his first book.
Golden proves that there is, as per the title, ‘more than one generation’ who have succeeded on the global stage; in 1986, the dark horses reached the semi-finals.
Find the book here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Golden-Belgian-Football-More-Generation/dp/180150105X
2022-07-1134 min
jonny_brickThe Football Library Radio Show: Matt EvansWhen the World Cup came to the USA, Matt was enraptured. A fan of Ipswich Town who grew up watching his local club Wrexham, his first book tells the tale of the tournament ‘that changed the game’.
It was a World Cup where Matt’s beloved Roberto Baggio missed the deciding kick, where OJ Simpson’s arrest overshadowed the opening week and where Oleg Salenko scored five goals in a game. The events that led to the USA winning the right to host the tournament are a book in themselves, and Matt is a fine guide to events of 28 years ago(!)
F...
2022-07-1133 min
jonny_brickThe Football Library Radio Show: Dr Pete WatsonA lecturer at the University of Leeds, Pete is the go-to authority on South American football and contributed to two seasons of the South America Files for These Football Times.
In 2020, Pete obtained his Doctorate with a thesis on how football was used to bring peace in Colombia. He has turned it into a book, Football and Nation Building in Colombia, which praises the role of President Santos in uniting people from both sides of the divide.
Find the book, out on August 1 via Liverpool University Press, here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Football-Nation-Building-Colombia-2010-2018/dp/1802070494
2022-07-0851 min
jonny_brick78: Caroline Sullivan1 Dua Lipa (6.45)
2 Gigs (4.15)
3 Hann and Hibbert (4.00)
4 Pop in the 2020s (4.20)
5 Peter and James (5.05)
6 The Mercury Prize (4.10)
7 Ed Sheeran (2.20)
8 Obituaries (3.50)
9 The Rollers (4.10)
10 Ambition (3.50)
11 Pop in the Year 2000 (4.45)
12 Makes You Twitch (2.30)
Total length: 49:30
2022-07-0449 min
jonny_brickThe Football Library Radio Show: Kieran GillOf all the books in the Football Library, The Beautiful Game and the Ugly Truth is certainly one of the most depression.
Hartlepool fan Kieran lost his grandfather to dementia and has been part of the Mail’s Enough Is Enough campaign to draw attention to the illness as it affects former footballers. These include Mike Sutton, father of Chris, whose Mail column Kieran ghostwrites and who is one of the big campaigners for more awareness of the disease.
In the book, Kieran talks to widows and children of players. He also chronicles the efforts of doctors to investigate the ef...
2022-07-0456 min
jonny_brickThe Football Library Radio Show: Greville Waterman Returns - Second HalfBrentford fan Greville has already written several books on the club but the 2021/22 season called for another. Just A Bus Stop in Hounslow chronicles the side’s success in the Premier League, where the cosmopolitan Bees side under the stewardship of Thomas Frank delighted fans in their new Community Stadium.
Greville speaks to key figures behind the scenes at the club while reporting on each fixture and noting how appreciative football critics are.
Find the book here: https://hawksmoorpublishing.com/book/just-a-bus-stop-in-hounslow-brentford-fc-2021-22-season-in-the-premier-league-greville-waterman
2022-07-0129 minjonny_brickThe Football Library Radio Show: Greville Waterman Returns - First HalfBrentford fan Greville has already written several books on the club but the 2021/22 season called for another. Just A Bus Stop in Hounslow chronicles the side’s success in the Premier League, where the cosmopolitan Bees side under the stewardship of Thomas Frank delighted fans in their new Community Stadium.
Greville speaks to key figures behind the scenes at the club while reporting on each fixture and noting how appreciative football critics are.
Find the book here: https://hawksmoorpublishing.com/book/just-a-bus-stop-in-hounslow-brentford-fc-2021-22-season-in-the-premier-league-greville-waterman
2022-07-0128 min
jonny_brick78: Stevie Chick1 McCartney and Milligan (4:10)
2 Seeing Green Day for the Third Time (3:30)
3 A Student in the Mid-Nineties (4:00)
4 2001 (3:05)
5 Critic’s Choice (4:10)
6 Heritage Acts (1.45)
7 The Human Is The Important Thing (4:20)
8 Sonic Youth (4:45)
9 At The Drive-In/ The Mars Volta (4:30)
10 Favourite Venues (2:00)
Total length: 37:10
2022-06-2737 min
jonny_brickThe Football Library Radio Show: Danny LewisWest Ham United fan Danny wrote a book centred around the last game at the Boleyn Ground, Boleyn’s Farewell, and has written pieces for These Football Times on Julian Dicks and Paolo di Canio.
His latest book is When Asia Welcomed The World, a look back on a tournament which took place when Danny was six years old. The 2002 World Cup in Japan and South Korea climaxed with the redemption of the Brazilian Ronaldo, whose two goals in the final against Germany put the icing on a fascinating tournament.
Turkey reached the semi-finals, David Beckham scored his penalty and Ro...
2022-06-2748 min
jonny_brickThe Football Library Radio Show: Steven Scragg Returns AgainOnly two men have visited the Library three times. One is Gary Thacker, and the other is Gary’s fellow writer at These Football Times. Steven’s fourth book dives into Mexico ’86, the World Cup played, as per the title of the book, In The Heat of the Midday Sun.
Liverpool fan Steven also provides an eyewitness account of the shambles in St-Denis last month as a football match broke out eventually after mismanagement and buck-passing.
Find the book here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Heat-Midday-Sun-Indelible-Story/dp/1801500975
Browse Steven’s TFT work here: https://thesefootballtimes.co/author/scraggy74/
2022-06-2435 min
jonny_brickThe Football Library Radio Show: Geoff Andrews & Filippo RicciPhilosophy Football FC was set up in 1994 as an atypical Sunday football side. Geoff Andrews pulled together a cosmopolitan group of players who wore shirts emblazoned with quotes from philosophers.
When journalist Filippo Ricci joined, he brought Italian flair to the team, who went on European tours to pit themselves against stern opposition.
QPR fan Geoff and Spanish football writer Filippo teamed up to write a history of their team, which can be found here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Philosophy-Football-Story-Geoff-Andrews/dp/1801500991
2022-06-2030 min
jonny_brickYour Mother Should Know (canon)Part of the McCartney at 80 project to celebrate Paul's 80th birthday.
2022-06-1701 min2022-06-1703 min2022-06-1702 min2022-06-1702 minjonny_brickYou Gave Me The AnswerPart of the McCartney at 80 project to celebrate Paul's 80th birthday.
2022-06-1701 min2022-06-1702 minjonny_brickWith A Little Help From My FriendsPart of the McCartney at 80 project to celebrate Paul's 80th birthday.
2022-06-1702 minjonny_brickWhy Don't We Do It In The RoadPart of the McCartney at 80 project to celebrate Paul's 80th birthday.
2022-06-1701 minjonny_brickWhen I'm Sixty-FourPart of the McCartney at 80 project to celebrate Paul's 80th birthday.
2022-06-1702 min2022-06-1701 min2022-06-1702 min2022-06-1704 min2022-06-1702 min2022-06-1701 min2022-06-1701 minjonny_brickThe Long And Winding RoadPart of the McCartney at 80 project to celebrate Paul's 80th birthday.
2022-06-1702 minjonny_brickThe Fool On The HillPart of the McCartney at 80 project to celebrate Paul's 80th birthday.
2022-06-1702 minjonny_brickThe Back Seat Of My CarPart of the McCartney at 80 project to celebrate Paul's 80th birthday.
2022-06-1702 min2022-06-1703 minjonny_brickShe Came In Through The Bathroom WindowPart of the McCartney at 80 project to celebrate Paul's 80th birthday.
2022-06-1701 minjonny_brickSgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club BandPart of the McCartney at 80 project to celebrate Paul's 80th birthday.
2022-06-1701 min2022-06-1702 min2022-06-1702 min2022-06-1701 min2022-06-1702 min2022-06-1702 min2022-06-1701 min2022-06-1702 min2022-06-1703 min2022-06-1703 minjonny_brickMother Nature's SonPart of the McCartney at 80 project to celebrate Paul's 80th birthday.
2022-06-1702 min2022-06-1702 min2022-06-1702 min2022-06-1701 min2022-06-1702 min2022-06-1701 min2022-06-1702 min2022-06-1702 min2022-06-1701 min2022-06-1702 minjonny_brickI've Just Seen A FacePart of the McCartney at 80 project to celebrate Paul's 80th birthday.
2022-06-1701 min
jonny_brickThe Football Library Radio Show: George Sephton - Second HalfThe Football Library Radio Show: George Sephton - Second Half by jonny_brick
2021-06-2834 min
jonny_brickThe Goal (Song for EURO 2020)A song for the EURO 2020 tournament. 'Don't get knocked out today!!'
Words and music: J. Brick
2021-06-0103 min
jonny_brickThe Football Library Radio Show: Mike Calvin Returns - Second HalfAmidst the Super League debacle, Mike’s recent book Whose Game Is It Anyway was published by Pitch and can be found here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Whose-Game-Anyway-Football-Life/dp/1785318845
‘Part memoir, part manifesto’, it links Mike’s time as a sports reporter with a clarion call for football which is even starker in the aftermath of the events of April 18-19 2021.
This is Mike’s second visit to the Library. Hear his first one here: https://soundcloud.com/jonny_brick/the-football-library-radio-show-michael-calvin-first-half
2021-04-2330 minjonny_brickThe Football Library Radio Show: Mike Calvin Returns - First HalfAmidst the Super League debacle, Mike’s recent book Whose Game Is It Anyway was published by Pitch and can be found here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Whose-Game-Anyway-Football-Life/dp/1785318845
‘Part memoir, part manifesto’, it links Mike’s time as a sports reporter with a clarion call for football which is even starker in the aftermath of the events of April 18-19 2021.
This is Mike’s second visit to the Library. Hear his first one here: https://soundcloud.com/jonny_brick/the-football-library-radio-show-michael-calvin-first-half
2021-04-2341 min