Why would anyone seriously want to hear what this guy has to say?

Four or five years ago i would have been a big defender of Lovejoy and Soccer AM, but since Sky has cottoned on to what a minor success this show has been it's slowly but surely been commercialised and has taken away from the show.

As for Lovejoy, i think the author here is spot on, and his bitchy little comment towards Gail Porter after she made a Beckham joke was not particularly becoming of the man.

Soccer AM ran out of ideas about five years ago, and should have been put out of its misery. As for Lovejoy, 606 is the best place for him. After all, the alternative is that he presents something that might otherwise be listenable, or that someone with half a brain occasionally tempts you to tune into 606. Like Victoria Derbyshire doing the morning phone-in on 5 Live, this kills two birds with one stone. So to speak.

Does he really mis-spell the name of his "mate", Austin Healey?

I used to like Lovejoy when I was about 15 and Soccer AM was still fresh but yeah he is a rather vile, pseudo trendy character.

Lovejoy is the biggest arse licker i have had the misfortune to watch, did anyone see that allstars programme he did? Or david beckhams soccer USA? If he was made of chocolate he would eat himself!

Man, this Lovejoy is a plank! What a superb article, makes so much sense if you've seen this dude on telly. Influence football? Don't make me laugh!! I'd "love" to see him in another celebs match, and this time have a certain Vinny Jones clattering into him full on. It would give me so much "joy". All he ever said that he thought was remotely funny was "dirty Leeds"...and this from a bloke who doesn't have the faintest understanding of the English game, its history or any feel for what football is about. Another plastic glory hunter!! Oh please, no one buy this book. It deserves to be the biggest lemon in history.

Possibly the best review I've read since Shark Sandwich ... brilliant.

The man's an arse ... the personification of a WKD advert - vacuous, unfunny, trite, unoriginal and offensively representative of lowest common denominator 'lad culture'.

I get the impression that he's the kind of 'New Blokey Man' (tm) that you'd only need to be in the company of for a bare four pints before he'd start driviling on about being at the birth of his child with a whistful look in his eye.

A tw*t ... synonym, a Chelsea supporter post 2001. An embarrassment to the beautiful game of Finney and Shankley. My grandad would've hit him in his L'orel man experted f*cking face.

And his cooking programme's sh*te aswell. Tart.

Sadly, he has been removed from 6-0-6.

What a loss to football he will be.

I realise now that it was seeing the football, not the presenters, that made me enjoy Soccer AM.

"Hopelessly banal and nauseatingly self-assured, smirkingly unfunny, it?s a £300 T-shirt, a piss-you-off ringtone, a YouTube clip of someone drinking their mate?s vomit. Its smugness is a corollary of its vacuity. I hope it makes you sick."

Brilliant.

bring back Standing Room Only - with that fella off Brookside, I think he played Damon

He's too busy doing one of those property programmes on BBC1.

I could never get along with SoccerAM, it was too polished and trying to be this "down with fans" programme. It was Skinner and Baddiel that came from proper footy fans, and i so want to start a campaign to get "fantasy Footy with Baddeil and Skinner" started up again. Lovejoy was the right sort of cock to front such a crap piece of TV. The sky generation doesent speak for proper footy fans

The sad things is it's wankers just like Lovejoy who work for TV companies commissioning new shows. No wonder shallow twats like him are on every channel these days, they're moulded in their maker's image.

I used to do a lot of things I now regret when I was an ignorant teenager. Complain to my parents about "life not being fair", join in with that despicable chant aimed at Wenger and also watching and enjoying Soccer AM. I still occasionally complain to my parents, but mercifully the latter two are things of the past. Lovejoy and Soccer AM probably set back my knowledge of football by about 3 years - a bit like falling in with the wrong crowd at school - it takes a while, but you realise in the end that you've been a bit of an idiot.

An astonishingly good review!
At Mudhuts Media in Wigan we have been demonizing that man and that programme for as long as I can remember.
The loathesome and insulting way that he used to seriously think he could play for any 4th division club (sorry, old fashoined me!) just about summed up his horrible attitude.
"Save Chip", "Bouncebackability", "Easy, Easy" Sad, sad warnings about how easily modern football fans are duped and follow the "Monkey see, monkey do" way.
We recently started a thread on the worst football books ever written, however, the book needs to have been read to be included, so even though Lovejoys book probably deserves the top spot I don't think any of us are brave enough to do the deed!

This is the best review of anything, ever. Simply brilliant.

I was once dragged onto Soccer AM by some mates. We were 'fans of the week', and apparently we were only going on to wind Lovejoy up.
In the bar after the show, one of our group approached Lovejoy and asked him at what point he had switched allegiance from Watford (who he apparently used to support) to Chelsea.

His reply, and I quote, was delightful: "Shut the f**k up, you c**t."

As arrogant and self-delusional a man as I've ever met in my life.

This odious talent vacuum is the embodiment of everything that is wrong with the modern football fan that knows nothing of anything before, or outside, the Premier League.

You'd think he'd at least have the good grace to be embarrassed by his ignorance rather than celebrate it.

While I am a regular reader of WSC, I live in Australia and have never seen a single second of Tim Lovejoy in action (which, judging by this article, would appear to be a blessing). However, I remember reading this review when it first appeared in WSC, and I thought it was brilliant and hilarious back then. Reading it again today, it's still as superb as I remembered it being. Bravo, Taylor Parkes.

Enjoyed this review, thanks.

A masterpiece of an assassination. Enjoyable even if you don't know who Lovejoy is, as Ashemar says above, but sublime if you do.

Still one of the finest hatchet jobs I've ever read and so, so well-deserved.

For anyone entertaining the merest suggestion of sympathy for Lovejoy, have a look at this clip of him talking about his "Chelsea heroes" who include Joey Jones and Mickey Thomas. Both of these, of course, have become his "mates."

http://bit.ly/bIR5ua

I never, ever tire of reading this - the only criticism I could possibly have is that it's perhaps a little too kind to its subject.

WSC should put a paywall around this piece and retire on the proceeds. Once Taylor gets his cut, of course.

It's a commentary on present day twattery beyond the gobshite lovejoy and I'm afraid I'll be stealing ideas from it for a long time.
Well done Taylor, a masterpiece.

Hats off to Taylor, he tells it like it is, congratulations on your unstinting honesty.

I remember reading this review when it came out in the issue and loving every word of it. I still return to it every now and then to read.

Simply the best article the mag has ever - ever- printed.

Brilliant review, kind of makes me want to read the book - in the same way that I pick of The Sun and read their sport section sometimes to discover what idiots think about football. Like the above comment I think I'll be re-reading this piece, it's fantastic, well done.

I regularly enjoy reading this review. Even after 50 times it still fails to make me smile. I saw this book in my local library today and was very nearly tempted to borrow it. Not that I doubt Taylor's review, but part of me thinks something this bad needs to be seen to be believed. I left it where it was, though, and seeing it on a shelf that could have been used to display Shakespeare, Byron, or Blake made me die a little inside.

As a reformed former Soccer AM viewer, I now realise that watching Soccer AM is a bit like believing in the tooth fairy - encouraging when you're young, but if you're still doing it when you're in your 20s, with a house, a job, and a committed relationship, you wonder if it's really still appropriate.

Lovejoy has a face, & intellect, for radio. . .preferably in Greenland, the Faroe Islands or one of the Poles.

I was a bit in the dark about Tim Lovejoy, never having seen him on the telly as I've been out of the country for years. So I never really got the vehemence of this article. Until this morning.

During a ham-fisted review of the newspapers with Eamonn Holmes on Sky News Andy Murray was featured, and Lovejoy suggested, without an ounce of irony, that "we all love him".

"But that's just it - we don't," corrected Holmes (quite rightly). "He's surly."
"Nah, Eamonn - that's him being focussed."

I've now re-read this excellent article with a much better idea of where it's coming from.

As excellent as the review is I feel Taylor Parkes should have torn Lovejoy's book apart page by page to prolong the
entertainment.

I've never watched Soccer AM but having watched that awful Something For The Weekend" I have yet to come across anyone on TV with the same level of banal, inane smugness as this twat.
I hate him.
And don't get me started on Louise Redknapp who could easily be his twin sister.

Oh and he's scared of coriander.
Lovejoy can't just not like the taste of coriander he has to make up some nonsense about how it's to do with an ancient fear of unknown plants and how they may be poisonous.
Pretentious twat!

This is a brilliant review, and is now half way down the first page if you google "tim lovejoy", so he must surely have read it, as I imagine he googles himself constantly. The only line I take issue with is

'with his fashionably receding hair'

Since when was receding hair fashionable ? Its part of encroaching middle age, what's next piles ?