Tales from the Bedroom Floor

London: Yellow Jersey, 2016 Why is this book on the bedroom floor?: I’m somewhat of a collector of football books, but only if they give me some insight into the theoretical aspect of the game; the why rather than the what. And what better way to find out how to win stuff than listen to the Germans? And it was a Christmas present from my Amazon list, if any fans of mine are feeling generous. About the Author: A former law student, Raphael Honigstein moved to London in the early nineteen-nineties. He is the English football correspondent for the Süddeutsche Zeitung and the German football correspondent for The Guardian and talkSPORT . Most recently, Honigstein has become a major contributor to The Athletic and a regular presence on BT Sport . He is also the author of Englischer Fussball: A German View of Our Beautiful Game . His Twitter handle is @honigstein . Plot: How does a team win a World Cup, particularly if they are paradoxically a perennial favourite but expected to fail? D...

London: Channel 4 Books, 2001 Why is this book on the bedroom floor? - It’s long been on my to-read list given the amount of research I’ve done into the field of psychoanalysis I’ve done over the past five years, and every profile of the author focusses on his off-field achievements at least as much as his first class record. So when I spotted it in a charity shop I had to pick it up. About the author - Mike Brearley played thirty-nine tests for England, captaining thirty-one of them. Three of these were during the famous Ashes series of 1981, in which he led England to a fanous 3-1 victory. In addition to his precocious excellence while still studying at Cambridge, he toured with the MCC and later captained Middlesex for a number of years. He obtained a degree in philosophy and later became a psychoanalyst, serving a brief period as president of the British Psychoanalytical Society. He is now a writer and therapist. Plot - If you’ve ever dreamed of leading out eleven m...