Good news lads, someone's done a book review of one of Steve Bruce's other novels, "Striker!".
(The purple tags are solely those which refer to either Bruce’s GCSEs or his Jaguar)
https://www.balls.ie/football/steve-bruce-novel/293169
(The purple tags are solely those which refer to either Bruce’s GCSEs or his Jaguar)
https://www.balls.ie/football/steve-bruce-novel/293169
Written in the first person, Striker puts the reader in the shoes of Steve Barnes, manager of Leddersford Town, a small but historic club hoping to rise to the Premiership from English football’s second tier.
But there’s trouble afoot!
Barnes finds young Irish striker Pat Duffy stabbed to death in the changing room and, becoming suspected of the murder, spends the rest of the book struggling to clear his name. In an odd move, he decides to do so by solving the case on his own, despite (a) the police already being involved, (b) being himself a suspect and © his having neither the expertise, training, nor free time available to investigate a murder.
On his quest, Barnes encounters gun-toting Irish thugs, disgruntled baby mamas and treacherous, heavily armed coaching staff. Not to mention a gay, nightclub-owning drug dealer with a glad eye for middle aged football managers and a thrilling top-of-the-table clash between Leddersford and Fulham that’s watched over by a rogue sniper intent on killing our trusty hero.
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By Laboured Go To PostShaw isn't training but Mkhi is.Shaw's not going to make it, m8. Might as well send him to Spurs, innit.
Manager 7
Ex-Premier League manager is another “we can put on the payroll”. If a player was transferred for £10m, “we’ll turn round to [X] and say, listen, if you take this player we’ll look after you. OK? OK, boom.”
Surely not?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3557286/The-curious-case-Oumar-Niasse-Everton-forward-cost-13-5m-played-29-minutes-couldn-t-bench-Wembley.html
Very happy for that Dybakla goal yesterday. He's having a somewhat rough start to the season, he really needed it.
By Laboured Go To PostGood news lads, someone's done a book review of one of Steve Bruce's other novels, "Striker!".Reading
(The purple tags are solely those which refer to either Bruce’s GCSEs or his Jaguar)
https://www.balls.ie/football/steve-bruce-novel/293169
These books are just brilliant.
For example, at one point two Irish gunmen – never thereafter named, identified, or revisited – abduct Barnes at gunpoint because they believe he had something to do with Duffy’s death. They lead him up to a secluded spot in the hills, at which point Bruce stares death in the face and begins delivering a long internal monologue on irrigation which really does need to be read to be believed;"I could make out the reservoirs made to provide water to the big cities of Lancashire. These reservoirs, dotted everywhere in hidden valleys, are themselves fed with water from upland streams. The previous summer had been a wet one, and the streams were torrents still. In order to facilitate the collection of this hill water, the authorities, the Water Board, had constructed concrete watercourses. These allowed faster and more efficient collection of the rain water."
It should be noted that when his surreal tribute to the Lancashire Water Board is being recited to the reader, Barnes has a gun in his back. Some say that scenes from your life will flash before your eyes in life-or-death situations. Steve Bruce reckons it’ll be Wikipedia pages on Northern England’s civic amenities.
During this abduction, the references becomes more specific still, and in one brief 10-page flourish he makes three entirely separate, equally bonkers asides to ancient history, and specifically to the habits of pre-modern humans in the Lancashire area;
Finally, we get around to talking some sedge.In the Bronze Age, people came here, nomadic tribes. They had powerful tools and they cut down the upland forests. They hunted with dogs and possessed strong arrow heads and spears, driving away or killing the wild animals. These people kept cattle and sheep and goats, which grazed the forest floors. Soon the landscape was cleared, and it only needed rain to erode all goodness from the soil.
Thank God we’ve settled that then. But while the Bronze age is pretty long ago, Steve “Way Back When” Bruce has more than that up his sleeve just two pages later;Millions of years ago, before man on earth, animals we now associate with tropical Africa roamed this area. They had to move, or perished, with the advance of the Ice Age.
It bears repeating that, not only has this no bearing on the plot – he is at this moment being shepherded to his death by two unknown Irish gunmen - AND such insights are never again returned to or referenced elsewhere in the book.
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Truly spoken like the kind of cunt, that Mor is.
He is a cunt though. Well documented by himself on the pitch and by previous clubs.
A club released him on a free just a year ago, due to him shitting up the training and team spirit lol.
Then he came to new Danish, said he was a changed man, started out by getting into a fight with their captain on the pitch in a match, because he wanted a free kick
A club released him on a free just a year ago, due to him shitting up the training and team spirit lol.
Then he came to new Danish, said he was a changed man, started out by getting into a fight with their captain on the pitch in a match, because he wanted a free kick
By Woodenpapangus Go To PostHe is a cunt though. Well documented by himself on the pitch and by previous clubs.
He's definitely got the face for it
mashallan pardew wooden, thank you for the details
By Baconsaurus Go To PostHas anyone dabbed in FIFA yet?
By Baconsaurus Go To PostHas anyone dabbed in FIFA yet?Hixx did it yesterday, twice in a game....
By Pennywise Go To PostHixx did it yesterday, twice in a game….disgusting.
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dat doom soundtrack
i can't go through minecon videos more than 10 seconds without turning them off, too much cringe
By Facism Go To Posthttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QwQPX_yjnM
i can't go through minecon videos more than 10 seconds without turning them off, too much cringe
By Freewheelin Go To PostWhomever makes these is a genius.
Sad really. Most accounts said he was starting to turn his life around at West Ham, until he refused to change agents as instructed by Big Sam.
You know what the sad thing is?
The late Robin Williams would have been perfect as Ranieri in the upcoming Vardy movie.
The late Robin Williams would have been perfect as Ranieri in the upcoming Vardy movie.
Mkhi not match fit for tomorrow. Shame. Presumably should be ready for Stoke.
Rooney may not start as he has a minor back problem.
Martial is available.
Zlatan will start.
Rooney may not start as he has a minor back problem.
Martial is available.
Zlatan will start.
Disgraceful the lack of quality English managers available for the job.
Luckily there is a country that just grows them on trees.
Just so you lads know, he is available.
Luckily there is a country that just grows them on trees.
Just so you lads know, he is available.