Query for a Hull City book I'm writing

Not sure Ash has any coaching badges, but he would get my support also. Both he and Brabs certainly wore their heart on their sleeves

 

Ash gets Hull City in a way many born and raised in Hull fail to do. Especially the Liverpool, Man Utd and TWS supporting inadequates.

 

I wasn't thinking necessarily in a coaching role. Would just be nice if the club could get him involved on matchdays and things. His playing story is probably the most incredible in Hull City history.

For those who attended the launch party, by the way, a total of £461.92 was raised in the collection tins alone for Dove House. That's very generous on top of the £20-a-go books people were buying too. Thanks so much to anyone who donated.

 

Richard, noted, but with his close association to the city and the club, I have no doubt his shared passion would be hugely helpful and motivational either to existing coaching staff, or if he has his badges to consider a coaching role himself.

Got to be more rewarding than selling watches, but then Ash of course may think otherwise!

 

Well if he wore his heart on his sleeve that’ll definitely make him a great coach...

 

If you're able to say, what is Ash doing now, OLM?

 

Cheers pal.

 

Just bought the book and will start reading tonight as wife got a bit mardy when I started reading it in The Green Dragon, Beverley and ignoring her. Couldn’t see the problem really, beer and a book who needs conversations.

Also got a book called 46 years and counting on City and a family who follow them, fella called Ian someone wrote it but wife is glaring so time to move on methinks.

Women just don’t understand the passion of a footy fan, well at least mine doesn’t.

 

Just be careful your missus the doesn't hit you on the head with it, Newbald. It's quite a weight.

 

Yea it is but she wouldn’t even carry the bag with it in so lift it I hope not

 

Many years ago someone at work advertised a litter of kittens were available for adoption.
I thought about it for a while, finally succumbing.
After picking the new family member up a couple of days later, I took him home.
Said to the missus "Meet Wagstaff, or Waggy for short". I was expecting a negative reaction.
"He's beautiful" she beamed, "...and you've named him after a Shakespeare character. I like that"

Go figure ! No class

 

Should have got him a companion kitty and called it Prince Hull. Could have had untold revelries together until Prince Hull saw sense and faced up to his responsibilities.

 

Would have been a Hal of a challenge to pull that off !

 

From reading the book it looks like Garreth Roberts was treated shabbily by the club at the end of his career.

I also think Keith Edwards comes across as a bit of a tit.

 

Garreth was undoubtedly treated badly by Dolan and Fish. There's still some bitterness there, and rightly so. Terry and Martin are nice guys but they undoubtedly did some pretty poor things to people in their time at City. That said, they have a lot of people who won't hear a bad word against them, and they were hamstrung to a large extent by the actions (or inactions) of Chris Needler.

Keith's a lovely man - he spent the first five minutes of our chat telling me how much he was enjoying the revamped Cold Feet on ITV - but he's in no doubt as to his abilities. He was single-minded about football on the pitch in his day - he just wanted to score goals and earn as much money as he could while he could, nothing else - and he is still a bit that way when it comes to discussing his career. But he's a nice bloke away from that. I'm sorry if the book makes him appear more than a very selfish striker!

 

I’m lucky. I have a wife who does like football. First lass I went out with who understood the offside rule. She had never been to a football match though. That was remedied 3 weeks after she met me. Her first game was the 5-1 win over Portsmouth when Pearson scored four. Had to explain to her it wasn’t like that every week. Which she discovered over the next few seasons. Probably why we have remained married for 45 years.

 

Picking mine up today from Waterstones and after all the positive comments on here I can't wait to read it.