The Football Book Club head back to 1986 to read then 31-year-old Villa, Wolves and Scotland striker Andy Gray's 'Shades of Gray'. Yes, that is genuinely the name.

Features Andy banging them in for Villa, opening a doomed nightclub, walking through Birmingham barefooted and going on holiday with Ozzy Osbourne.

Plus Ken has another new chant about a Wigan Athletic legend and we play the game 'Andy Gray or 50 Shades of Gray'?

Is it as filthy as E.L. James's very similarly titled book? Let's find out!

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In a slight change of pace, this week The Football Book Club bring you the first 'Wider Reading' episode.

James and Jack present exclusive interviews, bonus clips and answer your questions about the series so far. Featuring secrets from Grant Holt's co-author, the long-awaited Paddy Kenny Dramatic Reading and we discover what happens when Gerard Houllier and Japanese anime collide.

Plus James's Tim Sherwood autobiography gathers pace and we find out which Football Book Club hero has their own branded gin.

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In a Football Book Club first, the book club are joined by Sheffield United and QPR hero Paddy Kenny to read his brilliant new book 'The Gloves Are Off' ahead of its October 5th release.

Includes eyebrows being bitten off, a back-up keeper obsessed with adult movies, Roy Keane being put in his place and we find out what it's like to concede the most famous goal in Premier League history.

Plus Paddy talks about a career that took him from Bury to the Irish national team, enjoying unforgettable cup runs at Sheffield United and what really went on behind the scenes at Leeds United.

*WARNING contains some strong language and a naked Neil Warnock*

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This week The Football Book Club read Norwich, Hibs, Shrewsbury and a team in Singapore legend Grant Holt's 2019 autobiography 'A Real Football Life'... and it's a cracker!

Despite being one of the hardest books to track down yet, it's all worth it with tales of battered sausages, swan attacks, Chesney Hawkes and Bryan Gunn losing his cool with a bottle of sun cream.

Plus Ken's back with another chant, Tash thinks she might be the reason Grant became a professional footballer and we play an all-new game called 'What Chocolate Bar is Grant Holt describing?'.

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The Football Book Club are back! And to kick off the new series they're reading wobbly-kneed Liverpool and Poland goalkeeping hero Jerzy Dudek's beautifully titled 'A Big Pole In Our Goal'. Featuring Jerzy getting chased by a goose, Craig Bellamy stealing a Darth Vader mask and king of the chants Ken's triumphant return. And if that isn't exciting enough, we find out how Zlatan Ibrahimovic likes his clothes folded. This episode was recorded in February 2020.

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Ahead of the new series coming Monday 21st September, James and Jack bring you some of our favourite moments from Series 1 and the Behind Closed Doors specials. Featuring Nigel Worthington kicking skips, Jason McAteer asking Pierluigi Casaraghi out for a drink, Maya Yoshida buying Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles merchandise and - of course - Jermaine Pennant playing eggyboff. 'Cause Uptown Monk gon' give it to ya.

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It's the final Behind Closed Doors special and this week we treated ourselves to something a little different - a diary written by the Bridget Jones of ex-Reading goalkeepers, US legend Marcus Hahnemann. Written during Reading's first season in the Premier League in 2006, we find out Marcus's views on Leroy Lita's music taste, facial hair, Costco and the band Tool (we find this out a lot). Plus Ken's back with a new song, we go on Peter Reid watch, Ibrahima Sonko takes his top off a lot and we find out if the big American can be crowned the winner of the Behind Closed Doors mini-series.

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This week behind closed doors, lockdown has flown by thanks to Rangers legend and bona fide hunk Lorenzo Amoruso's exceptionally titled 'LA Confidential'. Set in 2002, after being stripped of the Rangers captaincy, in the space of 247 pages Lorenzo falls in love with Glasgow, meets a ghost, gets addicted to Baileys and doesn't buy his girlfriend yoghurt. Plus Ken's back with another song, Glenn Roeder's space in the Hall of Shame is filled threefold and Dick Advocaat disrespects Lorenzo's massive thighs.

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Still on lockdown, still reading obscure football autobiographies. This week The Football Book Club read Kevin Phillips's very premature, 2000 autobiography 'Strikingly Different'. Featuring Kevin breaking records and winning the European Golden Shoe at Sunderland, his thoughts on Emmerdale farm, a local coach firm and the band Republica, and DJing powerhouse Danny Dichio. Plus Ken's back with another chant and we read this week's dramatic reading 'Jody Craddock Moves A Barstool'.

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The Football Book Club are stranded hundreds of miles apart, but quarantine (and questionable sound quality) won't stop them from doing what they were put on this earth to do - read increasingly obscure football autobiographies. Today, the book club meet remotely to read Manchester City legend Shaun Goater's 2007 novella 'Feed The Goat'. Featuring Shaun on Kevin Keegan, modelling in Rotherham, Bermuda Triangle conspiracy theories and, of course, goats. Plus Ken's back with another song and at one point Bristol is described as 'the closest thing to Bermuda there is'.

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