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Lovejoy on Football
Lovejoy on Football
Oct 5, 2024 7:19 AM

Author:Tim Lovejoy

Lovejoy on Football

Tim Lovejoy loves football. Along with Helen Chamberlain he presented Soccer AM for more than a decade to become as much a part of a football fan's weekend as phone-ins, back-page EXCLUSIVES and the vidiprinter. But why does Tim love football? Is it actually the most important subject in the world? And did he really once support Watford as a kid?

Lovejoy on Football gets down to the nitty gritty of the really important stuff in football, such as:

Why he, Tim, is technically a rubbish football fan;

Women's true place in football;

How 'Save Chip' became the biggest football cause in the country;

Why it's a bad idea to hammer Razor Ruddock;

And why footballers are in fact underpaid.

Packed with amusing anecdotes, bustling with great football stories and full of strong opinions, Lovejoy on Football is the must-have football book of 2007.

Reviews

Tim Lovejoy - formerly of Soccer AM - a true legend of his time

—— The Beaver

a breezily unpretentious read

—— The Independent on Sunday

Readers will enjoy the access into her childhood and her years in the Army

—— The Times

Pinsent tells his own story in A Lifetime in a Race, and tells it truthfully ...This is another tale that rips off the page and says big, powerful things about sport, and about the frailties of big, powerful men

—— The Times

A gripping account of his life and most recent times. He deftly conveys the sheer effort needed to survive the brutal training regimes in top-level rowing, as well as the obsessive intensity that brought him his Olympic haul

—— Independent

I much enjoyed Matthew Pinsent's A Lifetime in a Race, partly because he wrote it himself, partly because he turned out to be such a likeable and interesting guy, and partly because it gently taught me a great deal about rowing

—— John Gaustad , Evening Standard

An honest and evocative read which details how winning a gold medal takes much more than "merely" winning a final

—— Daily Mail

Pinsent is a person of many talents. One of them is writing an autobiography

—— The Times

Good looking, rich, a sublimely talented athlete and an excellent writer ... an incredible story adeptly told

—— Scotland on Sunday

Notable for its honesty. The Liverpool defender's published opinion that he is happier retired from international football prompted a media frenzy

—— Martin Pengelly , Guardian

One of the few current footballers worth an autobiography

—— Jonathan Ruppin , Bookseller

Amid the basketful of bland post-World Cup books, McGrath's life story stands out a mile... Fascinating reading.

—— Evening Standard

The Republic of Ireland's most popular sportsman, still adored by fans of Manchester United and Villa.

—— BBC Sport

An all-too honest account of a playing career that just got better and better, despite threatening to go off the rails.

—— Sunday Mercury

An extraordinary book.

—— Irish Independent

Harrowing and brutally honest...a gripping story.

—— Derby Evening Telegraph

Brutally honest.

—— The Irish Post

Less a football autobiography, more repentant confessional.

—— Kevin Hughes , FreeSport

stunning

—— FourFourTwo
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