We Don't Know What We're Doing

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By Adrian Chiles

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Football, Football Teams, Fan Culture, West Bromwich Albion FC

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Further Details

• Published: 2nd Aug 2007
• ISBN: 1847440134
• Pages: 320
• Size: 234mm x 153 mm

From Word of Sport:

There's no doubt that he was a fan before he became a presenter and you certainly couldn't level the accusation that he's one of the (far too numerous) 'professional fans'. In saying that and even while accepting that there's plenty in here that fans will recognise and relate to, you do wonder whether there's anything that's really new in his account.

Publishers have been searching for the new Hornby ever since the first one, and his will hope he's got the profile to carry this off. Others (well, us) will ask whether publishers should be trying to find a new genre rather than a new Hornby.

From the Publisher:

Bill Shankly once said that for him football was more important than life and death. But Shankly was manager of a great Liverpool side - what about those less fortunate, who offer their undying support to their team through thin and thinner?

One such is Adrian Chiles, MATCH OF THE DAY 2 presenter and lifelong fan of West Bromwich Albion, and a man who thinks about his team far more often than he thinks about sex.

Following West Brom - a team that has known more troughs than peaks - over the course of a season, Chiles writes brilliantly about the passion for the Baggies that dominates his life ('If West Brom are doing well, I'm good company. I'm a nice colleague to have around, a good friend, a doting father, a loving husband. If, as is more often the case, we're doing badly, I'm none of the above').

Along the way he meets a quite remarkable cross-section of fellow fans, including one who has missed only five games since the Second World War and 'one-legged Kev', whose false limb once fell off while he was celebrating a goal scored against Wolves; while unhappy circumstances give him pause to consider the truth of Shankly's famous assertion.