Staying Up

Author:

By Rick Gekoski

Format:

Paperback

Availability:

In print, usually dispatched within 7-10 days.

Price:

£10.00

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Football, Football Team, Coventry City FC

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Further Details

• Published: 4th Nov 1999
• ISBN: 0751528595
• Pages: 352
• Size: 196mm x 126mm

From Word of Sport:

Rick Gekoski, an American Coventry City supporter since 1971, was granted total access for the 1997-98 season to the chairman, manager, players and staff. This is his inside account of that season; of life at a club which, despite surviving in the top-flight for 30 years, seems addicted to flirting with relegation.

From the Publisher:

Football clubs have long been notoriously secretive about what goes on behind the imposing club gates. Having seen the fly-on-the wall documentary that exposed then England coach Graham Taylor as a hapless and foul-mouthed loser, who can blame them? So it's to Coventry's huge credit that Rick Gekoski, a long-time fan despite being an American academic, was allowed in to chronicle their 1997/98 season.

Gekoski, like everyone else, was expecting yet another battle against relegation for the Sky Blues. In fact Coventry actually finished in a respectable mid-table position and they don't come out of this book too badly either. Gekoski really does give a flavour of the modern game as he probes the club's finances, transfer deals, tactics and personality clashes. He makes some remarkable claims for the manhood of a key player and as the book progresses he increasingly annoys the Coventry manager Gordon Strachan.