Book Description
Four long years after the best-selling first edition, the imaginatively-entitled sequel "Blades Tales 2" is available now.

From fog-bound reserve game trips to 200 drunken Blades arriving at Fulham by boat to a Royal Navy presence at an end-of-season tour of Trinidad and Tobago, there is an irrepressible vigour and vitality to this collection of anecdotes and memories that make "Blades Tales 2" that rare commodity in football literature – truly compulsive, cover-to-cover reading.

The perfect coffee table accessory or door-wedge, "Blades Tales 2" is an absolute must-have for any self-respecting football supporter. Or even Sheffield Wednesday fans.

Where "Fever Pitch" was perhaps ‘fiction football’, "Blades Tales 2" is very much ‘reality football’, with which any success-starved fan of any club will immediately identify.

Packed with humour, candour, hope and the irrational optimism that so colours a football fan’s life, "Blades Tales 2" reminds us that – thankfully – there is still so much more to football than Sky and the Champions League, and that there is more than one ‘United’ in the country.

Revel in some of the broad Sheffield dialect – if you can follow it! – shake your head at the recurrent alcohol consumption and occasional violence, nod knowingly at the familiar oh-so-close disappointment of your own team in similar circumstances, but above all relax, put your feet up and prepare to be entertained by this uninhibited ride into football fandom.

An excerpt from the introduction perhaps gives a sense of what’s to come,

"I still remember a mate of mine, full of best bitter, claiming at half-time, that he would eat his match programme if the match or United didn’t improve. Neither did, so true to his word, he proceeded to devour the lot. Well, all but the staples. He is a sensible lad, after all."

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