October 2011

Walk On: My Life in Red

There is a chapter in Ronnie Whelan’s new autobiography that is rather appropriately titled “Assassins”. In this section of the book, the former Liverpool great takes the reader behind the veil and offers us a glimpse into just how violent and physical English soccer was back in his eighties heyday.  He recalls an unforgiving culture where you did unto others as they did unto you, an environment in which players policed themselves and anybody who dished out the rough stuff expected to receive retribution of a similar kind from opponents.  Continue Reading

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