New book

My mate has written a book about his time watching Barnsley. Worth a read and brings back a few memories. I get a few mentions in the first few chapters. Ps I'm not on commission Decent holiday read


https://amzn.eu/d/dHif0Mj

 

Thanks, will order it.

I note the cheeky sod has given himself a 5 star review!

 

The title implies it's a book about Liverpool F. C.

 

Ar much? I'll wait for it to hit the bargain bins.

 

Based on the three games we've been to Anfield and other games

 

Lol - I noticed that. To be honest he's the last person I thought would have written a book. He wrote his name on the exam papers at school - fell asleep and walked out after an hour!

 

Didn’t he use to play for Wednesday and Leeds?

 

Just ordered a copy. Thanks for the heads up.

 

I once fancied myself as an author as well. During the late 1980s I started writing a kind of BFC life story, going back to 1962 when I started going to Oakwell. I used my office word processor (no PCs or MS Word then) and got 75,000 words down before I called what I thought would be a temporary halt. Unfortunately I never went back to it and the story ended around the time of the Bradford, Birmingham and Heysel disasters.

I was a member of the London Branch supporters then and, as magazine compiler for a while, I published some of it in the monthly newsletter. An RAF posting to Germany in 1990 saw my resignation from that post and, as I said, I didn’t revisit my story. No soft copy exists because it was saved on five and a quarter inch floppy discs only compatible with that word processor that I left behind at Boscombe Down. I did print it out though.

Maybe one day I’ll try again….

 

We've all got a book in us apparently. Even Baldrick wrote one

 

Not that one but yes John Newsome did play football

 

I'd love to write a book. Though my genre is more crime fiction than trying to remember old Barnsley games which I definitely struggle with.

 

You should. Pre-internet age stories need to be told before they are forgotten. Happy to help you type it up if you want!

 

Surely in this day and age you can scan in the printed text and some clever software will convert it to a word document for you?

 

Surely everybody who was a member of the London branch at any point in the 80s, 90s and 00s could write a book just based on stories about Gerry Wainwright!

 

OCR

 

Thanks for that but typing is what I do well. It’s one of those very useful life skills that I learned over 50 years ago and never lost

 

I’m sure you’re right

 

£36.42 for an hardback book ahhhh much

 

I remember the name but never met him. I was Wiltshire-based so a bit of an outsider but I was in contact with quite a few by that ancient method from the Jurassic period, ie a bit of paper in an envelope