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"Excellent" The Times"Kevin''s immense knowledge shines on every page." Gary Lineker"A football book by a fan for the fans. A treasure trove..." Alan Davies"An entertaining romp through the back alleys and glamour parks of English football." FourFourTwoPartly autobiographical, partly polemical, but mostly funny, Who Are Ya? is a snapshot of modern football, exploring the history of all 92 English Football League clubs.During his time as a broadcaster, Kevin Day has spoken to thousands of football players, managers and most importantly fans from across the generations. He spent thousands of hours crossing the country on trains, planes, automobiles, coaches ΓÇô and once a donkey called Lightning ΓÇô watching football at all levels. This book is the result of that: a tale of being chased down a railway line at Cardiff, a story of meeting George Best, an account of a lady getting her first Hull City tattoo at the age of 80!Crisply funny and with a host of celebrity football fan contributors ΓÇô including Stephen Fry, Jo Brand, Alfie Boe, Eddie Izzard, Gabby Logan, and Romesh Ranganathan ΓÇô Who Are Ya? celebrates the joys and miseries of being a football supporter.

A smart and irreverent guide to running a football club, brought to you by the team behind the acclaimed The Price of Football podcast.

A smart and irreverent guide to running a football club, brought to you by the team behind the acclaimed The Price of Football podcastImagine setting up your own Sunday League football club and seeing it rise to the lofty heights of the Champions League, taking all the risky, rewarding, sometimes dodgy and increasingly big money decisions along the way. Comedian and financial idiot Kevin Day and Kieran Maguire, a football accountant and financial expert, have imagined just that with all the humour and savage insight of their massively popular The Price of Football podcast.As (the made up) West Park Rovers rise through the divisions, towards the Premier League and Europe, Kevin and Kieran take readers on a rollercoaster ride through the often murky - and frequently bizarre - world of football finance. Along the way to hopefully making a fortune (albeit an imaginary one), they outline the challenges, opportunities and pitfalls their club encounters, while Kieran attempts to stop Kevin bankrupting them both in the (fortunately fictional) process.Their preposterous but somehow believable journey uses meticulously researched examples from football's rich history of financial chaos (like the chairman who set fire to his own ground to claim the insurance), interviews with big names and anecdotes from their own lives (like Kevin bumping into Sylvester Stallone at Everton and Kieran doing the accounts for the Russian mafia) as well as contributions from those in the know, including Gary Lineker, Gary Neville, Stephen Fry, Henry Winter, Karen Brady and Delia Smith (to name just a few), to follow the money and discover what's really going on behind the scenes of the beautiful game.