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Red Men Reborn: A social history of Liverpool Football Club by John Williams

Pitch Publishing, £18.99
Reviewed by Huw Richards
From WSC 426, November/December 2022
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Juve! 100 years of an Italian football dynasty by Herbie Sykes

Yellow Jersey, £10.99
Reviewed by Mark Sandell
From WSC 426, November/December 2022
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Groan Pain: Good riddance Mark Lawrenson, a dinosaur pundit who refused to keep up

The sacked Mark Lawrenson; Gary Lineker chats with the last of the old school, Alan Shearer, and one of the new breed, Micah Richards; Jamie Carragher and Gary Neville share a joke. Getty Images, Alamy (2)

The ousting of TV’s most miserable football “personalities” marks the end for a bland generation whose insistence on complacency and jingoism made them ripe for replacement

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Life In A Jungle: My autobiography by Bruce Grobbelaar

 384 Grobbelaar

DeCoubertin, £20
Reviewed by Rob Hughes
From WSC 384, March 2019
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The Forgotten Fifteen

350 BuryHow Bury triumphed 
in British football’s worst year
by James Bentley
SilverWood Books, £14.99
Reviewed by Charles Morris
From WSC 350 April 2016

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The story of how a hard-up Fourth Division club succeeded against the odds and won promotion in 1984-85 using just 15 players has immediate appeal to fans of smaller clubs. The underdog theme also chimes with the present, as Leicester, Bournemouth and Burton confound expectations this season. The tale’s backdrop is compelling, too, because 1984-85 was a nadir for British football, a period besmirched by appalling hooliganism and the tragedies of the Bradford fire and the Heysel stadium.

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