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After I finished reading From A Field To Anfield by Nick Tanner with Steve Cotton I read another book on football entitled What We Think About When We Think About Football by philosopher Simon Critchley (it was a Christmas present from my brother). Whilst I did enjoy reading it I do have to say that it has to be one of the most pretentious books on football ever written, so pretentious in fact that it is extremely entertaining. There are loads of passages in it which would be ripe for inclusion in Private Eye's Pseuds Corner . Names like Aristotle , Heidegger , Hegel , Nietsche , Marx and Sartre seem to be namechecked more often than Messi , Ronaldo , Best and Charlton ! Anyway, I thought it would be fun to translate some of these wonderfully weighty and verbose passages into classic Bristolian. I swear that even non-Bristolians would find the Bristolian translations easier to understand than the original English version! (From Page 71) "The key to football is the...

I thought it would be a good idea to do some book reviews of books that may be of interest to Bristolians. I will write the review in English and then do a Bristolian translation of the review for all those native Bristolians and students of the Bristolian language who may be described as 'keeners'. From A Field To Anfield ( Nick Tanner with Steve Cotton ) - Pitch Publishing This book is a must read for all Bristolian football fans especially gasheads and kudos must go to Steve Cotton for turning Nick's football experiences into such an entertaining read. It tells the story of a young lad with no expectations of playing Premier League football, and with little expectation of playing full-time professional football. Nevertheless, he somehow made the journey from being a factory worker at British Aerospace, and part-time player at Mangotsfield United , to Bristol Rovers and then Liverpool within a few short years. While it's fascinating to read about how Nick c...