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Footballer...
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What the Evening Standard's
Sports Editor Martin Chiltern wrote...
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Arsene Wenger
(Arsenal)
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Over the
summer, Arsene Wenger has been into a new biography of
Julius Caesar by the French historian Max Gallo. Wenger said:
"It's a good read and I've always been interested in Roman
history." Over to you Mr Abramovich. |
Barry Hayles (Fulham)
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According
to the Fulham striker's own website, the last book he
read was The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. |
Adrian Mutu (Chelsea)
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The Chelsea
striker, who is in his fourth year of a six-year law course
at the University of Bucharest, has recently read The
Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky."Please don't say I'm a philosopher"
said the Romanian. |
Freddie Ljungberg (West Ham)
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The midfielder
says he is fond of reading: "You spend so much time in
hotels doing nothing that reading helps. I like stuff
like Wilbur Smith." |
George
Graham
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The
man who won league titles in 1989 and 1991 is reading
'A Hero For All Seasons' (Robson Books), the official
biography of former England captain and Arsenal manager
Billy Wright by Norman Giller. Graham told Notebook: "Billy
was a great player and a great man." |
David Pleat
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Tottenham's acting manager is reading Nelson Mandela's
autobiography A Long Walk to Freedom (Back Bay Books).
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Sir Bobby
Robson
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The Newcastle manager is reading King John, the biography
of John Charles. Robson told Notebook: "I remember coming
up against him when England played Wales in Cardiff in
1961. "He was a great footballer, equally at ease at centreforwardor
centre-half, and he was never booked nor sent off. That's
remarkable when you think about football today." |
Chris Coleman
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The
Fulham manager tells Notebook that he is reading the best-selling
spiritual guide by James Redfield called The Celestine
Prophecy (Warner Books) - a favourite book, incidentally,
of Glenn Hoddle. |
Mark McGhee
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Millwall's
manager, tells Notebook he enjoys John Grisham books and
has just finished the fifth Harry Potter. He's now on
Bill Bryson's a Short History of Nearly Everything. |
David Beckham
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Amid the canapés, potted palms
and chandeliers at his Madrid book launch, the Real star
was asked what the book meant to him. "People like reading
a nice story and it is a nice story," he said. Asked what
was his favourite book, he replied, "this one" meaning his own book, My Side. |
Ian Holloway
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The
QPR manager tells Notebook he is a fan of whodunnits. He is reading Monty Roberts's
book Join-up, Horse Sense For People - which contains
the philosophy: "Gentleness is the true strength of the
world, not the threat and the whip. Violence always comes
back in the form of more violence." |
David James
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The England keeper said: "I read books
about serial killers and psychology mainly. Two writers
I recommend are a criminal psychologist called Paul Britton
(Jigsaw Man) and FBI forensic scientist John Douglas (Journey
Into Darkness). I'm interested in the psychology of it
all. You have to ask the question, 'What makes these killers
do it?'" |
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