*Magic Hat – Madejski, McGhee and Reading Football Club

*Magic Hat – Madejski, McGhee and Reading Football ClubA celebration of the stunning revolution in playing style at Reading Football Club in the early 1990s. Relive every joyful moment of the club's extraordinary rise. In late 1990, Reading were in the doldrums. Languishing in the third tier and drowning in debt, the club put their entire squad on the transfer list. But over the next four and a half years, something magical happened. Local businessman John Madejski stepped in to rescue the Royals, hiring

well-travelled football writer John Aizlewood

as well as extensive appendices of competition winners – from the Premier League to the I Zingari League – published together in a single volume for the first time

this is the only biography that captures the football story so exhaustively

He became a staple on the sports desk at BBC Radio Bristol

Tales of fake sheikhs and foul-mouthed gaffers

Within its pages

it is not a playing guide for the game itself

Just One More Goal is not just an account of one man's lifelong obsession with football

Size: 161mm x 240mm – 390 pages

Charles Buchan's Football Monthly

Size: 145mm x 222mm – 287 pages

to Ireland's near-miss of a semi-final place