The Man Who Hated Football – Will Buckley

Posted on June 14, 2018 by mbcadmin

Date: 20th June 2018

Venue: The British Queen, Meldreth

Book Score: 6.5

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2 Responses to The Man Who Hated Football – Will Buckley

  1. Mr Orange says:
    April 25, 2019 at 11:48 pm

    Will Buckley is a well-respected sports journalist who will not be mistaken for a decent novelist any time soon. His descriptions of a worn-out cynical sports journo who begins to hate his job/life/friends/family are good – as are some of the in-jokes – but the dialogue is stilted and the plot and characters barely plausible. Having the skill to describe things and make the occasional witticism is insufficient when writing a novel as this requires an author to create and populate a world and deliver a compelling story.

  2. Mr Red says:
    March 14, 2020 at 12:36 pm

    Poorly written and unconvincing football novel, with the central character, a football journalist who hates the game, completely implausible. I’m not a football fan, and struggled to work out why I should be interested in this at all.

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