An Epic Swindle: 44 Months with a Pair of Cowboys
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| Rating | : | 4.41 (752 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 085738600X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-11-20 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Brian Reade is a Daily Mirror columnist, Kop season ticket holder and author of the book 43 Years With The Same Bird. He lives in Liverpool.
No story sums up the naked greed at the heart of modern football quite like Hicks' and Gillett's attempt to turn a buck at Liverpool. No-one has had as much access to the truth, or tells it with as much passion, wit and insight as Brian Reade. AN EPIC SWINDLE is the inside story of how Liverpool FC came within hours of being re-possessed by the banks after the shambolic 44-month reign of American owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett. Manager, chief executive, board members, leading fans and journalists reveal the turmoil at a revered sporting institution run by two men at war with each other, who trampled Liverpool's cherished traditions into the gutter. AN EPIC SWINDLE is the riveting story of how close one of the great football clubs came to financial implosion.. Players Steven Gerrard and Jamie Carragher tell of their anger at the broken promises, as well as their pai
Loved every page Loved every page. An Epic Reade Shawn M. Warswick As a long time Liverpool fan, and a fan of Brian Reade's previous work, I was quite excited to get this book for my kindle and I devoured it in one day. That's not to say there isn't a lot of information here, there is. Reade just simply writes in a manner which makes this a book which is hard to put down.Reade starts o. A must Red Mikkel I was first made fully aware of this book trough an interview with the author in the last edition of The Kopite - the official magazine for the Scandinavian branch of the LFC supporter club. Having endured such a long time with frustration, mistrust, sorrow and plain anger caused by Hicks and Gillett, I was not too keen
Daily Mirror . 'The riveting inside story of how Liverpool FC was dragged to its knees' Daily Mirror