Football Mangers and their Favourite Books

[Greenoak]

Just to get off talking about Chelsea,

 

The National Football Museum in Preston invited some of the game's stars to nominate their favourite books.

 

 

The full list is:

 

Martin Jol (Spurs) Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway

Paul Simpson (Carlisle United) Billy - Pamela Stephenson

Hope Powell (England) I Know Why the Caged Birds Sing - Maya Angelou

Steve Cotterill (Burnley) Beyond Winning (Human Kenetics) - Gary M Walton

David O'Leary (Aston Villa) Kane and Abel - Jeffery Archer

Graham Souness Fourth Protocol - Frederick Forsyth

Steve Bruce (Birmingham City) Frank Sinatra 'Biography' - Martin Smith

Sam Allardyce (Bolton Wanderers) The Soul of a Butterfly - Mohammed Ali

Jose Mourinho (Chelsea) The Bible

Billy Davies (Preston) Sacred Hoops - Phil Jackson

David Moyes (Everton) Animal Farm - George Orwell

Alan Curbishley (Charlton) Bobalong the Brownie Man - Agnes Grozier Herbertson

Mick McCarthy Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown

Sir Alex Ferguson (Manchester United) Treasure island - Robert Louis Stevenson

Wayne Rooney (Manchester United) Harry Potter Series - JK Rowling

Paul Jewell (Wigan) Bravo Two Zero - Andy McNab

 

 

My only comment is I am surprised Wayne Rooney can read, and Kane and Abel - Jeffery Archer. WTF

[cymrococh]

Kane and Abel - Jeffery Archer. WTF

Ah come on now, sure it's only a young book - it deserves it's chance. I may have paid twice the market value for it, but I leave that side of things to the chairman...

[Gilps]

I may have expressed some sympathy for Mick McCarthy earlier in the week. I take it all back.

[Boca]

In Mourinho's version of the bible he plays God.

[Stevie H]

i don't believe for a minute that david moyes has read animal farm.

[Boca]

i don't believe for a minute that david moyes has read animal farm.

 

He has definitely watched it though

[Guest Gaz_J]

i don't believe for a minute that david moyes has read animal farm.

 

Read it? He's in it - with his little milking stool.

 

Oh, Animal Farm...

[stressederic]

Coincidentally "4 legs good 2 legs bad" is the mantra behind the breeding program of Phil and his brother.

[Tosh]

Funny that

 

I scanned the list thinking "someone has Da Vinci Code"... although technically, that someone is no loger a manager