Books

Reading matter for footie fans

Gloriously unromantic

D.Bennie, A Season in Hell (Mainstream, 1997), £14.99

This is a fantastic book. Billed as ‘The soccerati’s state-of-the-nation fin-de-siècle guide to Scottish football league grounds’, it takes the reader on a fascinating and extremely atmospheric voyage around the most unromantic of Scottish footballing venues: Gayfield (Arbroath), Glebe Park (Brechin), Ochilview Park (Stenhousemuir), Boghead Park (Dumbarton)…and all the rest. There are brilliant stories, anecdotes and trivia about every ground. Get it! It’s very good.

Peter Davies