REVIE DOES IT

I know … I know …  two blog posts in two days. I must be stuck for things to do.

Info on Robert Endeacott’s latest novel, as mentioned yesterday. It’s up on pre-order on Amazon and on the Tonto website.

Bookseller piece on the book. Annoyingly, my PR said, ‘Avoiding the over-use of football cliches, Wheatman said …’ so the quote just makes me sound like a donkey, rather than comedy genius. And my original said the Shakespeare book had been brought forward, not bought. What can you do, eh? It’s the thought that counts, errr … at the end of the day (I’m at it again!).

Disrepute: Revie’s England

July 4^th, 1974: Don Revie decided to leave Leeds United to take over the England job from the sacked Sir Alf Ramsey.  His departure upset many while his England appointment was hardly met with universal approval either. A long list of enemies including the FA, the Football League and the media, meant managing the national team put him directly in the firing line.  His aim was to restore the nation’s team to its former heights, win over the fans, the doubters and the cynics … but he’d bitten off more than anyone could chew.

The odds were too great: the players, the tactics, the notorious dossiers, money, the mystery, the mayhem and the controversy meant that Revie’s dream was over in three unimpressive years.

Using explosively revealing and previously unpublished material written by the man himself, DisRepute is the true fictionalised account of Revie’s England.

Praise for Robert Endeacott and Dirty Leeds:

‘He writes without pretension, honest and unflinching. Born of dedication and passion.’ David Peace

‘Robert Endeacott has no concerns about stirring up controversy.’ The Yorkshire Post

‘An insightful account of the rise of Leeds United under Don Revie.’ Charles Hutchinson, The York Press

‘As a fiction this is groundbreaking stuff – and might yet make a better film than The Damned United. Highly recommended.’ Leeds Leeds Leeds

‘Part rite of passage and part homage to Revie, it reeks of beef-dripping, sooty black buildings and sherry-doused failure.’ Rick Broadbent, The Times

Some Sheila Quigley stuff to follow this week … keep your mince pies Howard Keeled.