The Taskmaster's Assistant himself, Liverpool fan Little Alex Horne joins us to read Wales legend Ian Rush’s 2009 *epic* 'Rush: The Autobiography'. Featuring Ian's short-lived phase dressing up as David Bowie, 'surreal banter' with Mark Lawrenson, footballers with Mr Men names, joy at Liverpool, struggles in Italy, a dramatic reading where Ian attacks Kenny Dalglish's wife with a scone, and why Ian thinks the game's gone. But only when it comes to FA Cup draw balls.

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The brilliant journalist, Spanish football expert & Sunday Times bestselling author Guillem Balagué is back on Book Club! And this time he's here to discuss his brilliant new biography 'Rise of the Villans: Inside Unai Emery's Aston Villa Revolution' (out now via Orion Publishing). Including Guillem on Unai the disruptor, trademarking the words 'good ebening', and exactly how much Jhon Duran is too much Jhon Duran. Plus we get Guillem's expert view on Villa's poor start to the season, Monchi's shock exit and what the future holds for Aston Villa under Unai and Roberto Olabe, before a game of 'Real Book Fake Book'.

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This week the Book Club are reading 'Take Note!' - the 2010 autobiography by James's favourite ever player, Spurs, Portsmouth & England legend Darren Anderton. Featuring an unhinged foreword by Terry Venables, arguments over the phone with Alan Sugar, Gazza the wise sage, Darren's *many* holidays to America, the truth behind his injury record, and the most disgusting prank we've ever encountered courtesy of Steve Sedgley. Plus we play 'Is it a Taylor Swift song or a Darren Anderton chapter title?'.

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For the first of our Book Club Classics we're heading back to 2021 to bring you Steve Bruce and his wife Janet's incredibly dramatic standoff with police inside a phone box in Gillingham.

This clip is taken from Series 3 Episode 7 'Steve Bruce's 'Heading For Victory', which you can listen to in full by scrolling back through the Football Book Club podcast feed. See you next Monday as the new series continues!

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Football Book Club returns, live from London's Cheerful Earful podcast festival! And we've tracked down Alan Shearer's long-lost, secret 1998 audiocassettes to FINALLY bring Alan's story to the masses. Including how Bryan Adams helped secure Alan's move back to Newcastle, his war of words with Michael Owen, and Alan's 'tragically magnificent arse' he owes his whole career to. Plus Blackburn Rover's Jack Walker goes Brando, Kevin Keegan's unnecessary codewords and we play 'Mulled Over or Moldova'.

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Football Book Club is BACK! Starting next Monday 15th September, new episodes will be dropping on your feed every fortnight. Great new guests! Questionable new books! Same Football Book Club.

See you next week!

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Ever wanted to see four people read a book before your very eyes? Well now you can! Because we're delighted to be playing The Cheerful Earful podcast festival in London on Saturday 19th October. And we've got an exciting guest joining us...

Tickets are available now from cheerfulearful.co.uk or click here to be taken directly to our ticket page.

We'd love to see you there to celebrate five years of Football Book Club. So please do buy a ticket and see you next month!

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It's the last episode of Series 5 :(. But we're going out with a bang, as we read Manchester United legend Dwight Yorke's explosive 2009 autobiography 'Born To Score'. Featuring treble heroics, the truth behind his romance with Jordan, and keepie uppies in a bin. Plus partying with Colin Montgomerie, David May's 'wicked' sense of humour and Quinton Fortune - the most delicate soul in footballing history.

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Football Book Club are going international! As James heads to spectacular Rome armed only with a city guide written by its most famous son - AS Roma legend Francesco Totti. Totti penned 'E mo'te spiego Roma' ('And Now I'll Explain To You Rome') in 2012, and now, on what was meant to be a romantic weekend away with his fiancé, James will be taking in the sights, learning about the city and enjoying some downright bizarre football anecdotes courtesy of Francesco. Keeping in touch with the rest of the Book Club back home all the way. Can he see it all in five days? Is it a good idea to leave your holiday in the hands of a footballer? And will his fiancé have left him by the end of it? Find out as we head to Italy...

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A late contender for best book title of the series, this week we're reading former Aston Villa, Leicester and Coventry City forward Julian Joachim's 2023 autobiography 'You Must Be Joachim'.

Featuring the ups and downs of a career which sampled the Premier League to the Gibraltar National League, Julian causing a stink in the dressing room (literally) and failed Chinese restaurants co-owned with Steve Walsh. Plus brushes with Hollywood, what connects Julian and the Kardashians and quite possibly the best Ken Zong yet. Julian might be Joachim, but were we laughing by the end of it? Find out now!

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