: Sun Jul 26, 2009 8:34 pm
Bulliac wrote:
In what way do you feel it is "crap"? Like most sports autobiographies it was written in a style, which probably reflects the author, but "crap" is a tad unfair, imo. It certainly made interesting reading.
Peter Fox was an outspoken coach, a true character of the game. The part of the book that deals with his coaching record was very sterile noting which significant games we won or lost, trophies won, players bought and sold. I was expecting some more in depth discussion of key issues. The sort of things that go on at clubs and you wait years and years to find out. Then a book like this comes out and I think the authors could hav tried to get more details from Fox about matters such as the walk off at Hull KR, playing five games in seven days in 78, winning the 81 Championship on the last day, coaching Yorkshire and GB leaving Bradford first time around, Henderson Gill leaving and so on.I don't blame Fox because he didn't write the book, it's not an autobiography. Maybe I was a bit unfair but it was because I was disappointed.
