United players with books

[Stuart Davis]

Just finished reading Paddy Kenny’s book. What other blades have autobiographies? I’m pretty sure Keith Gillespie has one. Any other fairly recent players?

 

[PeterNdlovu081]

It's a little known fact that Leigh Bromby wrote The Da Vinci Code.

 

[Revolution]

Keith Gillespie - very good
Alan Hodgkinson - riddled with factual errors. Disappointing
Alan Birchenall - very funny
Keith Edwards - solid effort
Tony Kenworthy - solid effort, slightly better than Edwards
Vinnie Jones - not read though the United bit only occupies about 2 pages
Terry Curran - not read and wouldn't read

 

[Houston_Blade]

Bob Booker has got one out

 

[Pollingtonblade]

Dave Bassett has one granted not a player and of course Warnocks me me me book.

 

[Jinxy1966]

Steve Simonsen did one

 

[DifferentClass]

Who was it who played for us who's rumoured to be Secret Footballer?

 

[borbokis]

Ben Osbourne has a few I've heard

 

[Jinxy1966]

Who was it who played for us who's rumoured to be Secret Footballer?

Dean Hammond

 

[SouthportBlade]

Who was it who played for us who's rumoured to be Secret Footballer?

Kitson

 

[Whiston Blade]

Who was it who played for us who's rumoured to be Secret Footballer?

Dave Kitson, actually read one of the Secret Footballer books, was alright.

 

[DifferentClass]

Dean Hammond

"Dean Hammond" and "footballer" shouldn't be mentioned in the same breath!

 

[Bergen Blade]

 

[pudseyblade]

Another recommendation for the Keith Gillespie one - probably the best footballer's autobiography I've read. It's brutally honest (as opposed to the usual idiots who often try to justify being an arse). Frank Sinclair will be praying his wife never picks up a copy.

 

[Corkblade]

Back from the brink, Paul McGrath's autobiography a great read along with Keith Gillespie's

 

[Silent Blade]

Keith Gillespie - very good
Alan Hodgkinson - riddled with factual errors. Disappointing
Alan Birchenall - very funny
Keith Edwards - solid effort
Tony Kenworthy - solid effort, slightly better than Edwards
Vinnie Jones - not read though the United bit only occupies about 2 pages
Terry Curran - not read and wouldn't read

Not read Gillespie's or Kenworthy's. Agree with what you said about Hodgy, Birch and Edwards. TC's biography a few years ago was good. Mick Jones's autobiography was more like a scrapbook than an autobiography. Have read John Tudor's but it had inaccuracies. Browsed Vinny Jones' and decided not to buy because I noticed that he was belittling us. A Blade across the road has lend me Paddy Kenny's, not read it yet.

 

[coaxingstar71]

How long before Wilder has one out?

 

[Birdwell Blade]

Billy’s will be good.

Gillespies is a good read, as is McGraths.

 

[Cheets]

I skipped to the bit about United in Curran's biography in WHSmith's. The only bit I can remember was him saying that he was in Josephine's with a girl and Tony Kenworthy warned Curran that his wife had turned up.
I also skipped to the United section in Martin Peters' autobiography. He said he had underestimated the hostility between United and Wednesday fans and that his kids got stick at school. He said he had expected to get more support from Harry Haslam when Peters took over as manager. He said that relegation thing to Division 4 wasn't the worst thing to happen in his time at SUFC, that was the death of Keith Solomon, the young keeper from Cornwall.

 

[borg elite]

Bob Booker has got one out

It's a good read.

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[HodgysBrokenThumb]

Keith Gillespie - very good
Alan Hodgkinson - riddled with factual errors. Disappointing
Alan Birchenall - very funny
Keith Edwards - solid effort
Tony Kenworthy - solid effort, slightly better than Edwards
Vinnie Jones - not read though the United bit only occupies about 2 pages
Terry Curran - not read and wouldn't read

A small addition to your comments on Hodgy’s book. It is indeed riddled with factual errors, some of them so basic that it is difficult to imagine how they came about. At the same time, I found it very readable, and felt it captured the spirit of football in the 1950s and 1960s very well; it also conveys his personality very well. Don’t let the errors put you off reading it if you want to re-live the era or gain a sense of football at the Lane in the 50s and 60s.

 

[Houston_Blade]

It's a good read.

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I bought it for my dad, he said it's similar to most football autobiographies, just a bit more interesting with the Blade links.

 

[borg elite]

I bought it for my dad, he said it's similar to most football autobiographies, just a bit more interesting with the Blade links.

I enjoyed it. Far more interesting than most other football autobiographies I've read. It had greater insight into the life of a pro footballer.

 

[Varkanoid]

Paddy Kenny's books is pretty good really enjoyed it.

 

[ancientblade]

hodgys book was a cracking read if you grew up in the 50s and 60s but did have factual errors main one being that we played west ham last day of the 67/68 relegation season edwards and kenworthys books are also good reads and suprisingly both were complimentary towards curran

 

[Silent Blade]

A small addition to your comments on Hodgy’s book. It is indeed riddled with factual errors, some of them so basic that it is difficult to imagine how they came about. At the same time, I found it very readable, and felt it captured the spirit of football in the 1950s and 1960s very well; it also conveys his personality very well. Don’t let the errors put you off reading it if you want to re-live the era or gain a sense of football at the Lane in the 50s and 60s.

The ghost writer was a Stoke fan who knew little about the club and it seems he didnt check the facts properly

 

[Drunk blade]

Brewster has got one coming out next year its called the Hustle, with a foreword by Jurgen Klopp

 

[Drunk blade]

Just finished reading Paddy Kenny’s book. What other blades have autobiographies? I’m pretty sure Keith Gillespie has one. Any other fairly recent players?

Curtis Woodhouse's is decent

 

[Snowflake]

Bob Booker has got one out

Booker’s is well worth the read

 

[Harry's Game]

Is the list of United Players who have books out longer or shorter than the list of United Players who have actually read a book?