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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
I'm glad I borrowed rather than bought this abysmal book, 27 Jun 2001
By A Customer
The spectacular decline of Manchester City between 1994 and 1998 should provide the raw material for a genuinely revealing and truly fascinating book. Unfortunately, author Ashley Shaw totally lacks the skill and talent to produce such a work. He combines an error-strewn text with an uninspired prose style, a wholly inadequate critical faculty and a penchant for irritatingly irrelevant references to his own favourites Manchester United. The result is a tawdry, immensely deficient effort which should be avoided at all costs.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
A big disappointment, 8 April 1999
By A Customer
The story of how Manchester City fell from being a mid table Premiership side to a mid table enterprise in Nationwide League Division Two is fascinating. Someday it'll be written down, and provide great reading for people not even interested in football. Sadly, this book isn't it, and really doesn't do justice to its compelling subject matter. Instead the author embarks on a disorganised rant. There's no narrative development, themes of argument pop up and disappear in a frustrating fashion. Incredibly the author (who confesses to being a fan of City's great rivals, Manchester United) seems to have spoken to very few of the players, directors and others associated with the club, which fundamentally makes this a work of opinion rather than reporting. Altogether a disappointment, and we must wait for the real tale, which must get told by someone, eventually.
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Fantastic Insight, 27 Jun 2006
This book is a fantastic read revealing facts about the decline of the club that other books have overlooked. I urge all real City supporters to buy this book and find out what really went on when the toilet roll tycoon bought the club with change he found down the back of the Chesterfield. Fantastic
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