Footy
Rocks!: The 50 Best Rants and Dribbles from Football365's Controversial
Columnist, by John Nicholson (2006)
JOHN Nicholson has, since 2001, been writing pieces for one of the biggest, best, most original and most popular football websites on the internet: football365.com.
Over that period of time, he's made tens of thousands of readers every week laugh out loud, seethe with anger and also just scratch their heads and say 'what the hell is he on about'?
Sex and drugs and rock'n'roll are never far away from John's football writing, and contained in this book are some of his most classic moments such as The Barnsley Surrealist Collective, where John undergoes a psychotropic narcotic experiment to see why people go to see rubbish football.
Other infamous episodes include A Very 70s Xmas, when the author witnesses a most unusual Christmas present being administered to a friend in Middlesbrough's Holgate End by a Suzi Quatro look-a-like.
A whole cast of characters emerge: Hairy Tony, Hunter, Lenny, Edie, Two Red Setters in Jedburgh, a man with his very own Love Pump and Frankie who fell in madly love with Graeme Souness are all here and many, many more in 50 mad, bad and dangerous to know columns.