FOOTBALL CONFIDENTIAL: SCAMS, SCANDALS AND SCREW-UPS
by David Conn, Chris Green, Richard McIlroy and Kevin Mousley
BBC, £6.99, pp. 256, ISBN 0563488581
By chance I picked up Tom Bower's Broken Dreams shortly after putting down a paperback reissue of Selina Hastings' biography of Nancy Mitford. Curiously there was a solitary point of contact. This was the description applied by Lady Redesdale, Nancy's mother, to the collection of preening Oxford aesthetes that her daughter invited to the house for weekends: 'What a set!' Invited to meet the 20 chairmen of the Premiership, bidden to dine with the Football Association or inspect the assorted riff-raff operating as 'agents', Lady Redesdale, you fear, would have expressed her disdain in rather similar terms.
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