Floodlit Dreams: How to Save a Football Club - Ian Ridley Reviews
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Newest Review: ... contacts to set up fundays and fund raising events and also manages to snare the recently retired Steve Claridge, a ... more
... journeyman footballer whose biography Ridley successfully penned.
The book follows Ridley as he realises running and saving a football club isn´t quite as fun as it would seem, even a club you were born and raised to support.
We follow Ridley as he tries his damndest to improve facilities, talks about the problems he experiences with a Manager used to much better facilities and players and players whose demands far exceed the sum of their talents.
The book is very interesting in parts and quite honest, we all dream of...more
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Ian Ridley Floodlit Dreams: How to Save a Football Club Pages: 352, Edition: New edition, Paperback, Pocket Books Last Update 18.05.2013 02:15
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Ian Ridley Floodlit Dreams: How to Save a Football Club Pages: 352, Edition: New edition, Paperback, Pocket Books Last Update 18.05.2013 02:45
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Customer Floodlit Dreams: How to Save a Football Club - Ian Ridley Reviews (2)
by - written on 14/06/10 (Very useful, 31 readings)
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I used to really enjoy reading Ian Ridley´s columns in the Guardian newspaper as a ghost writer for many footballers he was entertaining and irreverent, then he moved to the Daily Mail and got serious. This book is available for 40p on Amazon, which frustrates me as I paid a fiver a few years ago. It is 352 pages long and was released in 2006. The book follows the journalist Ian Ridley as he decides he wants to save his local football club, non-league Weymouth, he uses his football contacts to set up fundays and fund raising events and also manages to snare the recently retired Steve Claridge, a journeyman footballer whose biography Ridley ... Read the complete review
by - written on 08/04/10 (Very useful, 46 readings)
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Floodlit dreams is a book written by the Mail on Sunday's chief football reporter Ian Ridley about his time as chairman of Weymouth Town for the 2003-2004. Ridley took over his home town team when they were in dire financial strife after just surviving relegation from the Premier Division of the Southern league. He took over with the club almost bankrupt, a crumbling stadium and a poor side, he then employed Steve Claridge and the following season they finished second. This is a book about the finances and running of a 'relatively' large non-league club set in a wealthy part of the country but only getting between 1000 and 2000 spectators for home games. ... Read the complete review
