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Football My Arse! | 
 enlarge | Author: Ricky Tomlinson
Publisher: Time Warner AudioBooks
Category: Book
List Price: £10.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 1073172
Format: Abridged, Audiobook
Media: Audio Cassette
Edition: Abridged edition
Number Of Items: 2
Pages: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.2 x 0.7
ISBN: 140550093X
EAN: 9781405500937
ASIN: 140550093X
Publication Date: September 19, 2005
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 He can write them but he can't tell them....... January 21, 2008
Unfortunately Ricky has made a serious error of judgement in narrating his own book - it just doesn't work.
The book itself is witty, full of enough anecdotes and one-liners to detract from the constant references to Liverpool FC, and Ricky himself is a very talented actor, and an excellent after-dinner speaker and raconteur.
But this does not translate to the smoothness of narration required for any audiobook - the audience is not able to see facial expressions and hand gestures whilst settling back after a Sports Dinner, but is more likely to be someone on a long journey, or maybe stuck in a traffic jam, or to have a sight problem which prohibits them from reading the book.
Ricky's delivery is stilted, the timing is out, and the overall impression is one of hearing a monologue delivered by someone reading one word at a time from an autocue moving at an intermittent pace. This is unfortunate, because a lot of the material has the potential to be very amusing, if only it was presented and delivered by someone with timing and voice variation.
The book is a buy, the CD audiobook is poor.
 Football My Arse: July 8, 2006
4 out of 6 found this review helpful
Ricky Tomlinson is probably Famous as both the lazy father of the family in "The Royles" (Jim Royle) and as the last Manager to give a team Talk in the changing rooms at Wembley before it was knocked down and rebuilt. as Mike Bassett. Directly because of this, there are several references to the fictional England Manager in this book. Perhpas too many.
Nevertheless, This book contains some of the most amuzing and hilarious stories from "the beautiful game" itself, some of which have now surely gone down in football folklore. Not only are there crazy stories from these shores, but from overseas. Stories from deep in the game's past, and some of the more recent Howlers. (Peter Enckelman, anyone?)
Some of the witty remarks included also help the book in its comedic cause (Football my Arsene, and football my Farce Being two good examples)
This book is surely one of the most amuzing football books ever written, better than anything that has gone before it. Whilst on the subject, I recomend "David Seaman's Goalkeeping Nihgtmares" on DVD. Some of the things menioned in this book appear on the DVD.
 A Very Funny Book June 24, 2006
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
This is a very funny book of football anecdotes and for those of us of certain age brings back memories of certain players. In fact, some of the names go back even further than I do.
Ricky Tomlinson is the ideal man to compile this book. Certainly for me while reading the book I had this picture in my mind of Ricky with his heavy Liverpool accent telling these stories down at the local and having everyone in stitches.
Here are a couple of one liners from the book. There are hundreds of them:
Malcolm Allison: "Our 'keeper Joe Corrigan many be concussed, but it's difficult to tell with him as he always looks a bit dopey."
David Beckham: "My parents have always been there for me, ever since I was about seven."
Many of the anecdotes are several pages long but there is also a good assortment of one liners, like those above. Gaffs from players, managers and commentators alike.
If you are a football fan, you can't help but love this one.
 I was disappointed... March 12, 2006
4 out of 8 found this review helpful
This book does contain some amusing and bizarre footballing stories, don't get me wrong. But for every genuinely funny moment there are 5 or 6 references by the author to his own alter-ego Mike Basset, his home in Liverpool and just Liverpool Football Club in general.If these consistent references had any substance to them, then this book might well be a fantastic compendium of footballing trivialities. But none of them go anywhere, most ending abruptly in some witless, throw-away comment. I can't help but feel that it is dragged a long way down by Tomlinson's peculiar fondness of himself. My advice is save your money, don't go for this one. Unless you want to buy my copy on the cheap, that is ;)
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