Late Tackle

LITERATURE

by
The Late Tackle Magazine Team
6 June 2013

KEITH MENARY is also looking to a summer read (and he’s got some recommendations, too). And here’s why.

While Twitter, Instagram and blogs are essential online tools for keeping up-todate with the daily grind, the joy of the close season is to log out, pick up a book and enjoy your fix in peace, without having your parentage/ethnicity/sexuality questioned by the hordes who roam the net in search of offence.
Of course, some football books are better than others. For every Jonathan Wilson tome, there’s a 300-page Michael Owen/David Beckham-type hagiography farted out by...

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