Your club in a book?

[Boletus Edulis]

I recently read Tom Gregory ‘s A Boy In the Water, which is the true story of how he became the youngest person ever at eleven to swim the channel. I read it because I had been in the same club over a decade earlier, so many of the people and much of his experience was familiar to me. At a number of points he mentions watching Orient with his dad. This got me thinking has your club been mentioned in books at all that are not about football or the place the team comes from, and if so which ones?

 

[Roger Stone]

The Auschwitz Goalkeeper by Ron Jones is a good read. True story of a POW from Newport, held at the death camp during WW2. Over 100 years of age now but still goes to games at RP. Remarkable fella.

 

[The Jovial Forester]

Jilly Cooper, who lives local, was supposedly researching one of her bodice-rippers at ours but not sure if she's actually wrote it: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/20...s-show-jumping-to-tackle-football-in-next-bo/

 

[shoddycollins]

The author Hunter Davies is local and namechecks us quite a lot. Not sure if we do get a mention in his memoirs but would be surprised if we didn't.

 

[GodsGift]

This is Plymouth's new book

 

[valefan16]

A book about the Gannon time in charge and the bust up between him and the Horse!

And one better the 1952 Alex Guiness film the Card is set in a fictional town Bursley involving the local football club so based on the Vale!

 

[shoddycollins]

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A book about the Gannon time in charge and the bust up between him and the Horse!

Get with the programme! The question was for books 'not about football'.

 

[Son of Cod]

Pretty sure the fifth circle of hell in Dante's Inferno is a pre-season at Carlisle, isn't it?

 

[Chris FGR]

Jilly Cooper, who lives local, was supposedly researching one of her bodice-rippers at ours but not sure if she's actually wrote it: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/20...s-show-jumping-to-tackle-football-in-next-bo/

Getting some help from KMB as well.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/...oper-kick-new-bonkbuster-into-shape-xrm9g9ql9

 

[OhGodGlovePuppet]

We're mentioned in Fever Pitch, I'm not sure whether you'd class that as purely a football book or not but it's still nowt to do with us.

 

[Deepcut Cobbler]

Oldham Athletic in the Fenella Fielding sketch, Carlisle in the Peter Cushing sketch...