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Lows, Highs and Balti Pies: Manchester City Ruined My Diet (Paperback)

by Steve Mingle (Author)
3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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  • Paperback: 320 pages
  • Publisher: The History Press (1 Sep 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0752431781
  • ISBN-13: 978-0752431789
  • Product Dimensions: 19.6 x 12.8 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 69,475 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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King of the Kippax, Manchester City fanzine, December '04

Couldn't put it down till I'd read it from beginning to end. Loved it.


City til I Cry!, Manchester City fanzine, December '04

If you're looking for a good read, nostalgic, funny and passionate, then this is the book for you.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Fckng Brilliant, 27 Oct 2006
By Ian J. Ferguson "barcabloo" (Barcelona Spain) - See all my reviews
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Having watched the Wigan defeat last weekend 21-10-06 a fellow blue lent me this book....if you aren't a city fan it won't resonate as much but it really cheered me up...it confirmed that City have always been a roller coaster that puts the Big One to shame..there was a description of a game that summed up City's performance last weekend....however it was written in the 1980'a.

The author is a passionate and knowledgeable blue and I was so taken by the format 100 matches from the 60's until the move to Com's interspersed with great anecdotes that I had to finish it in a day!
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6 of 23 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Portrait of misplaced obsession more like, 16 Jan 2005
This book sums up the curious relationship city fans have with the other world inhabited by some 55m of us non obsessed Brits.
The grim determinism that drives the author forward sets him apart from other men- this book is an attempt to reach out from the other side of the mirror.

Steve Mingle gives us a perverse tour of the world he wants us to see, a world dominated by the precious images of Colin Bell and Georgy Kinkladsky. We see odd glimpses of the author's other life- schoolboy,student,actuary - but any sense that this is a schlock autobiography in the Hornby tradition goes out the window as we are bamboozled again and again by our knowing host.

To call this self obsessed post modernism would be to go too far but it's got a bit of Naborkov in it and the author certainly comes accross as an over-intelligent loser with Curtisian tendencies.

The book's failing is in its ending which is tepid. You really want something to happen to end this grim reiteration of 100 farcical matches ,spread over 45 years. Perhaps the mortality tables could project the number of sequels to come (at the current rate I calculate about 1.1). If we are due another dose in 2049, I sincerely hope that some kind of spiritual enlightenment can visit itself upon Mr Mingle to make better use of his undoubted talents

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1 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Very bad indeed, 14 Dec 2007
This book is about as interesting as listening to the former manager of a major drinks company's pension fund prattle on about his experiences as an actuary.

The author strikes me as the sort of person who would think it was 'funny' to send a load of bacon-themed spoof letters to the handsome young editor of a weekly pensions magazine in an elaborate 'sting'. And it should be clear that this is NOT FUNNY. Not at all.
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