The Dynamo Football Bookclub

Injury Time 24: Sean Dyche look-a-likey 5-a-side

In Injury Time 24, we take Sean Dyche’s advice and play the lookalikey game 👀⚽️ — the game he once said makes the world go round.
It may not be that integral to the earth’s orbit, but it sure is fun
 
Thanks Sean Dyche / Mick Hucknall / Chris Evans 🙏
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Episode 54: Keith Gillespie - How Not to be a Football Millionaire

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In Episode 54, we review Keith Gillespie’s How Not to be a Football Millionaire.
 
A Class of ’92 graduate alongside Becks and co., Gillespie enjoyed a solid career at Newcastle, Blackburn, and a handful of other lower-league clubs. The book charts his rocket-propelled rise 🚀 and his lamentable fall 📉.
 
Capped 86 times for Northern Ireland ⚽️, Gillespie reckons he blew somewhere in the region of £7 million through gambling and slippery financial advisors 💷. I know, its amazing to believe Keith Gillespie earned £7 million...
 
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Injury Time 23: Right v. Left - The Ideology Draft

In our increasingly polarized world, what a tonic it is to think about where the footballers we so admire fall on the political spectrum. We can even go one further and consider who wins when the footballer conservatives take on the game's SJWs? 
Tune in to Injury Time 23 of the Dynamo Football Bookclub and find out which ideology was best all along. Or at least best at football...
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Episode 53: The Damned United by David Peace

In our first episode this year, we review our first football novel, David Peace’s The Damned United 📖⚽
 
Having already reviewed both Clough and Taylor’s autobiographies, this was Alistair’s way of cramming in more Clough 😄
 
The book has been described as the best novel about football 🏆📚 — a fictionalised account of what happened during the 44-day reign of Clough (and don’t forget Taylor) at Leeds United ⏳⚽
It’s also been made into a film 🎬, which we discuss too.
 
🚨 Spoiler alert: the 44 days didn’t go well…
 
Happy New Year, folks 🎉 Have a smashing 2026! 🥂✨

Injury Time 22: 'Tis the season for a Christmas 5-a-side draft

To mark the festive season 🎄, we discuss some of the weightier religious and historical topics 📜✝️ such as the cause of Herod’s death ☠️ and the schism between the Catholic and Protestant churches ⛪️⚔️⛪️. Yes indeed, it’s a Christmas 5-a-side ⚽️🎅.
 
Join us as we find ever more tenuous and tangential ways 🧵🤔 to connect top footballers to the 25 December 🎁🎂 and find out if Al can get a nice early present for himself 🎁😬 with a long-overdue win in the ongoing Injury Time draft series 🏆.
 
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Merry Christmas, folks! 🎄🍷🎙️

Episode 52: Sam Allardyce - Big Sam, My Autobiography

Pour yourself a very very large glass of wine 🍷, sit back 🛋️, and enjoy Episode 52 of the Dynamo Football Bookclub.
 
This week, we are taking a lesson in humility from Big Sam Allardyce. 📘
 
The Premier League’s original innovator turned reactionary, Big Sam elbowed his way up and down England as a player before becoming one of the most noteworthy managers of the Premier League era. His Bolton team really were something back in the day ⚪️⚽ with flair, grit 💪, and no shortage of long punts up the field despite what Sam might say.
 
It was a management career that started with humble Limerick FC 🇮🇪 and hit some memorable high notes 🎶 before ending on the sour notes of England and Leeds 😬.
 
It was a heck of a journey for the Big Man Brute who is not, as it turns out, from the north of England 😂.
 
Join us for Sam’s rose-tinted view of it all. 🌹👓

Injury Time 21: Skin on Skin - Tattoo 5-a-side

We are skin deep in Episode 21 of the Dynamo Football Bookclub’s Injury Time looking at footballers’ tattoos. 🏉🖋️
 
From numerology with Sergio Ramos 🔢 to Richarlison’s tattoo tribute to team mate and all-around good guy Neymar 🇧🇷✨, there is quite a lot to talk about.
 
Will Johnny take up Al’s offer of a five-figure sum to get a tattoo of Al’s face? 🤔💰😬
And more importantly, can Al finally win one of these damn drafts? 🏆🤞
 
More important questions answered in Episode 21 of Injury Time. 🎙️
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Episode 51: Marco Van Basten - Basta

In Episode 51, we’re back with the Oranje 🇳🇱 as we dive into Basta, the autobiography of the one and only Marco van Basten.
 
The rather oddly nicknamed “Swan of Utrecht” 🦢 rattled in 242 goals and swept up everything in sight:
three Eredivisie titles 🏆, four Scudetti 🇮🇹, two European Cups 🏆🏆, and not one, not two, but three Ballons d’Or 🥇🥇🥇
 
And he did all this before the age of 28. Amazing, football’s Alexander the Great ⚔️
 
Tune in to discover:
Who slammed the door 🚪 in Van Basten’s face for treachery
How deep his love ❤️ for Silvio Berlusconi runs
What he really thought of Arrigo Sacchi’s revolution 🤯
And what is in the infamous Box 13 📦…
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Injury Time 20: Ouch - The Injury Time injury special

It’s injury time on Injury Time ⏱️⚽️
 
In Episode 20, we pay homage to all those fine fellows whose careers were brought to a premature end due to injury 🤕💔
 
From the most famous (David Busst) 😬 to some of the more obscure and unlikely — including the goalkeeper who ended his career up a tree while rescuing a cat 🧤🐈🌳
 
There is also the harrowing tale of the end of a Sprite-drenched Alistair’s fledgling career 🥤😵‍💫 Oh, what could have been…
 
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Episode 50: Dennis Wise - The Autobiography

🎉 EPISODE 50! 🎉
We’re celebrating our half-century in style — that’s right, it’s Denis Wise’s autobiography 😏📖⚽️
 
Wise is one of the three musketeers of English football books. Along with Glenn Hoddle and Steve McMahon, he somehow appears in everyone else’s autobiography — and almost no one ever has anything nice to say about him 😬😂
 
But rather than just blindly swallowing whatever’s served up by untrustworthy footballers, we decided to go straight to the source. 🎯
 
Denis’ 2012 autobiography is a suitably short book 🪶 — written while he was still playing, and includes:
📖 The greatest ever FA Cup story
🥜 Vinnie Jones’ penchant for grabbing balls
💥 And all the amazing things we’ve apparently lost to “woke”
 
It’s Episode 50 — a milestone and a madness all in one 🎙️
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