Fagone is absolutely suberb, he's like the young Tom Wolfe, succeeds brilliantly.

Smart funny book voraciously hoovers up every junk food crumb and grease spot in trash culture.

This a fascinating, often amusing examination of a pastime that is as morally reprehensible as it is worringly unhealthy.

So funny indeed, that the reader must weep.

Fascinating, stomach-churning reading.

Deeply affecting

Moving...after reading it, I felt I not only understood depression a little better but also determined never again to believe the myth of the sporting superman, impervious to criticism or pressure

Deeply affecting

A Life Too Short is a sports biography about as much as BS Johnson's classic The Unfortunates is a sports novel. Both are books about grief. But football runs through the heart of Enke's story and this book belongs to the first rank of publications on the game of minds and souls that exists behind the beautiful game that is seen on the field. It is both a fitting tribute to a lost friend but it is also a salutary warning to the great football clubs of the world

Enlightening and visceral...An indispensable insight into a man and an illness, Reng's book is a sobering yet brilliant account and may yet restore faith for the disenchanted man in the street

Enke had often talked to his friend Reng, a journalist-cum-novelist, about writing a book together. Now Reng has done it alone, beautifully...this is the mature work of a writer who has gone far beyond sensationalism. It allows you to turn back and read football differently

It should be on every British football fan's reading list

A masterpiece… I have read few other books, fiction or non-fiction that is so startlingly sensitive, honest and sincere

It’s pitched perfectly – intensely moving without becoming overly emotional or morbid

This seductive book will engage those who don’t know a googly from a doosra and enlighten those who do