Red Machine

Liverpool FC in the '80s: The Players' Stories

Simon Hughes

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English

Mainstream Publishing
15 August 2014

Football (Soccer, Association football)

Opens the door to both the dressing-room and the boot room at Anfield during the 1980s to reveal a wealth of untold stories from the era

During the 1980s, Liverpool Football Club dominated English football, winning six league titles, two European Cups, two FA Cups and four League Cups. In Red Machine, Simon Hughes interviews some of the most colourful characters to have played for the club during that period. The resulting interviews, set against the historical backdrop of both the club and the city, provide a vivid portrait of life at Liverpool during an era when the club's unparalleled on-pitch success often went hand in hand with a boozy social scene fraught with rows, fights and wind-ups.

The players featured here include John Barnes, Bruce Grobbelaar, Howard Gayle, Michael Robinson, John Wark, Kevin Sheedy, Nigel Spackman, Steve Staunton, David Hodgson and Craig Johnston, as well as first-team coach Ronnie Moran. Their candid, ribald and sometimes scathing recollections provide an antidote to the media-coached, on-message interviews given by today's players and combine to offer a unique insight to this exciting time in the club's history.

By: Simon Hughes
Imprint: Mainstream Publishing
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 197mm, Width: 131mm, Spine: 17mm
Weight: 191g
ISBN: 9781780576916
ISBN 10: 1780576919
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 15 August 2014
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Simon Hughes is a journalist and author. He covers Merseyside football for the Independent and has written for the Daily Telegraph and the Sunday Telegraph. His book Red Machine won the Antonio Ghirelli Prize for Italian Soccer Foreign Book of the Year 2014. His other titles include Secret Diary of a Liverpool Scout, Men in White Suits and Ring of Fire. He lives in Liverpool.

Reviews for Red Machine: Liverpool FC in the '80s: The Players' Stories

an excellent new book ... Eat your heart out, ProZone. * The Independent * His abilities are delivered with excellent understatement in Simon Hughes' Red Machine. * The Independent *

Winner of Premio Antonio Ghirelli 2014 (UK)
Winner of Premio Antonio Ghirelli: Categoria Migliore Opera Straniera (Antonio Ghirelli Award: Best Foreign Language Book) 2014
Winner of Premio Antonio Ghirelli: Categoria Migliore Opera Straniera (Antonio Ghirelli Award: Best Foreign Language Book) 2014.