WHAT IS LIFE LIKE BEHIND THE SCENES AT A PREMIERSHIP FOOTBALL CLUB?
Until this book, every fan was dying to know the answer to this question. In 1997-98, Rick Gekoski became the first supporter to be allowed into the inner sanctum of a top club, Coventry City. This is his account of their struggle for survival in the toughest league in the world; the journey of a stranger in a hostile land where the natives are suspicious of outsiders and do not speak his language. What he discovered surprised him and will surprise the reader too.
'If I had known that you were going to write this sort of book, I never would have allowed you access to myself or the team. Having said that, I think it's one of the best books about football ever written. The closest anybody could get to what it's really like' Gordon Strachan, manager of Coventry FC, to the author.
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Gekoski, like everyone else, was expecting yet another battle against relegation for the Sky Blues. In fact Coventry actually finished in a respectable mid-table position and they don't come out of this book too badly either. Gekoski really does give a flavour of the modern game as he probes the club's finances, transfer deals, tactics and personality clashes. He makes some remarkable claims for the manhood of a key player and as the book progresses he increasingly annoys the Coventry manager Gordon Strachan.
But as Strachan himself magnanimously said when it was all over: "If I had known that you were going to write this sort of book I would never have allowed you access to myself or the team. Having said that, I think it is one of the best books about football ever written. The closest anybody could get to what it is really like." --Nick Wroe
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