I am at work currently, but off the top of my head there are references about Charlton in the following Autobiographies / biographies
Gary Bushell - Bushell on the rampage Linvoy Primus - Transformed Jermain Defoe - The Biography Ralphe Milne - What's It All About Ralphie? John Barnes - The Autobiography Rob Lee - Come in Number 37 Lennie Lawrence - Lennie Alan Curbishley - Valley Of Dreams Matt Tees - Matt Tees on Football Jimmy Seed - The Jimmy Seed Story Jimmy Seed - Soccer From The Inside Eddie Firmani - Football with the Millionaires Eamon Dunphy - Only a Game Garry Nelson - Left Foot Forward Garry Nelson - Left Foot In The Grave Neil Redfearn - Theres only One Neil Redfearn Mark Fish - Madiba's Boys (includes Lucas Radebe) Sam Bartram - The Story of a Goalkeeping Legend Sam Bartram - The Sam Bartram Book of Memories Sam Bartram - By Himself
A Couple I am not 100% sure about are
Then Charlton Chaplin - ?Football Lives? Tony Parsons (Charlton Reserve team player and count cricketer) - Title is something like Runs, catches and games
I am sure I have missed some, but hopefully it is a good start.
I cannot comment on the contents of the books, I do have a copy of them all, but have not read them all.
Thanks for digging that out Stig - good to know my memory wasn't deceiving me. The interesting question is how did LeCarre know about the Antigallican?
I might be able to assist with this one...
John Le Carre (real name David Cornwell) has a younger half-brother, Independent journalist Rupert Cornwell, who is a Charlton fan. I remember interviewing him for the Valley Review when he was the paper's Washington bureau editor.
Many thanks Matt. talk about the wisdom of crowds. I shall keep my eyes open for Smiley lookalikes at the Valley on the future - sitting in the West stand so as not to look too conspicuous surely?
Alec Stock - Football Club Manager is on Ebay and some of the listings reference Charlton, but as yet I have not been able to confirm Charlton content. Does anyone on here know?
Alec Stock - Football Club Manager is on Ebay and some of the listings reference Charlton, but as yet I have not been able to confirm Charlton content. Does anyone on here know?
Don't know the book I'm afraid but he did play for Charlton during Jimmy Seed's time so feasible that there might be some content.
Any aspiring manager at that would have had to go a long way to find a better role model than Seed.
I am at work currently, but off the top of my head there are references about Charlton in the following Autobiographies / biographies
Gary Bushell - Bushell on the rampage Linvoy Primus - Transformed Jermain Defoe - The Biography Ralphe Milne - What's It All About Ralphie? John Barnes - The Autobiography Rob Lee - Come in Number 37 Lennie Lawrence - Lennie Alan Curbishley - Valley Of Dreams Matt Tees - Matt Tees on Football Jimmy Seed - The Jimmy Seed Story Jimmy Seed - Soccer From The Inside Eddie Firmani - Football with the Millionaires Eamon Dunphy - Only a Game Garry Nelson - Left Foot Forward Garry Nelson - Left Foot In The Grave Neil Redfearn - Theres only One Neil Redfearn Mark Fish - Madiba's Boys (includes Lucas Radebe) Sam Bartram - The Story of a Goalkeeping Legend Sam Bartram - The Sam Bartram Book of Memories Sam Bartram - By Himself
A Couple I am not 100% sure about are
Then Charlton Chaplin - ?Football Lives? Tony Parsons (Charlton Reserve team player and count cricketer) - Title is something like Runs, catches and games
I am sure I have missed some, but hopefully it is a good start.
I cannot comment on the contents of the books, I do have a copy of them all, but have not read them all.
Footballing lives - it's a compilation written by Matt Baker and former joint chaplain Jeff Heskins. A very good read, but don't expect a load of eye opening revelations, given the confidentiality assumption in the chaplain-player relationship.
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A couple of others
Alan Mullery - The Autobiography
Paul Hince - Memories of a failed footballer
Not Biogs but
Theo Foley - Fit for the Game: Soccer
Matt Holmes - Coaching Manual
Alex Ferguson Diary of 94 95 season - makes reference to the youth cup game at The Valley and how he was well looked after
Any aspiring manager at that would have had to go a long way to find a better role model than Seed.
I note that the Charlton Life review linked to at the end seems to have since gone missing, although the thread that it sparked is still there: http://forum.charltonlife.com/discussion/29476/new-article-lennie-lawrence-book-review