Just read it on holiday and it was a very disappointing read. I was expecting much better after what I'd heard about it.

There was little in it that most people didn't already know and I thought the grammar was awful.

My Ross Kemp on Gangs book was twice as good (and half the price)

It is a load of sh1te, save your pennies and spend it on booze and fags or something of a similar nature......

I was thinking of getting a copy of Brian Honours book. Cheers, you just saved me some cash.

Er, what exactly were you expecting like? News of the World type revelations? Details of the second coming of Christ?

Or a book about Brian Honour which inevitably includes a lot of detail that most of us are already familiar with?

Some people!

It is poor, have browsed other books written by Mr Riddle and they are very amateurish. Could of been a lot better, stats just taken from the internet. Brians story is unique and is one to tell but it has been ruined now.

I don't entirely disagree, but my point is what did Tax payer expect a book about Brian Honour by Mr Riddle to be like? If he'd have thought about it he'd probably have realised what it was going to be like. It's like buying a pint of proper beer in a London pub and then complaining that it was rubbish.

So he should be happy that a book he bought is rubbish?

i bet it was a signed copy too to tax dodger

He should have known that he would think it was rubbish! Caveat emptor as it were, especially with his prior knowledge...

As for pints in London you expect them to be rubbish and they rarely if ever disappoint in that respect. As for complaining, you can try but they'll never accept that you're right.

Are you for real?

How should he have known it was going to be poor?

Did it say it on the front?

I thought he'd taken Mr Riddle up on the standard of his writing previously? Which would have given him a clue would it not? That and the fact that as I said earlier there is a limited amount of detail in one man's life (in this case Brian Honour) which he probably knew most of anyway.

Either way he's a whining malcontent.

Fullers beer is okay though isnt it?

Aye, fullers is generally ok , often excellent - I was exaggerating for effect a bit. Mind you they sell Fullers at the pub at the top of my street and it's undrinkable so it's more about how they keep the beer which they don't seem to do very well in london.

See, if only everyone were so inventive the question of message board abuse need never arise!

Either way i think mr sengelow could have expected a decent read, and a good insight into the life or mr brian honour.

Saying that i havent read it and it might be good.

I have to say I was very disappointed with it too, most of it was a not very well written story of Pools results for the seasons which Brian played for us.

Sorry to say but Brian deserves a lot better!

That is because London is full of rats and tramps.

You can judge for yourselves - Brian is in the Corner Flag on monday 29th September doing a signing and talk in 8pm. Ask him if he pre read the book!

Books will be available to buy (if you aint put the kybosh on them!!)

If ever I read biographies - which I don't - it's to learn of fascinating things fascinating people have done in their fascinating lives.

If this book doesn't reveal anything fascinating, it's because either a) the author has completely missed the plot or b) Mr Honour is not a fascinating person.
Whichever way, if it's as unfascinating as people are saying, it ain't worth publishing and I for one certainly won't be reading it.

Being crap at writing won't help the author's cause either.

I wouldn't disagree that, a) it's not particularly well-written and, b) it probably doesn't tell us much that we didn't know already. But it evoked a lot of good memories for me which I was able to remember and reflect on in me own way. So I was happy enough with that at least partly because I wasn't expecting one of the greatest books about a footballer ever written. Maybe I'm easily pleased.

Im actually reading Maggie Thatchers autobiography right now. Its not bad. How I wish she was in charge now instead of that piss poor wnaker Brown.

Aye, well surely under disabilty dicrimination law they couldn't stop her being Prime Minister just because's had dementia for several years.

I was hoping for a more behind the scenes story of Brian Honour's life. Obviously that just makes me a 'whining malcontent' then I can live with that.

Has Mr Riddle been giving you grammar lessons?

Er, it looks like it!

Alternatively it could be a typo like.

she could have dementia, parkinsons, schizophrenia, whatever, and she would still be a better option

To rake over old coals, so to speak, she would fit in quite well now, after all her monetary policies were a load of old bounder as well, weren't they???

At least she didn't have a glass eye though

15% interest? Bring it on. The savings accounts will love it.

We could do with a good period of high inflation too, once the dust had settled from that and the economy recovered then the value of the house would be double or treble what it was when I bought it.

[quote="Mr Ripper"]15% interest? Bring it on. The savings accounts will love it.

We could do with a good period of high inflation too, once the dust had settled from that and the economy recovered then the value of the house would be double or treble what it was when I bought it.

I'm guessing a bit here like, Mr Ripper but would I be right in saying that you didn't do economics at university?

I thought that I saw Ripper's name on a loaf of bread yesterday.

But then I realised that there wasn't an 'n' in Thick Cut.

As far as he is concerned there can be a tide of human misery as long as the price of his house goes up. I swear, Mr Ripper, that some days your posting are so utterly retarded, heartless and mean spirited that you sink so low that you sound like a Tory.

I remember going through the Ted Heath government and three day week or whatever it was and getting three pay rises in a year and then all that nonesense in the 80s/90s with high interest rates when houses round us doubled in price, I got one payrise after another and it wasn't long before I could go on holiday as well as affording the mortgage.

Seems to me that the prople who suffer when inflation is high is the money lenders....banks and building societies. Inflation is a good thing for those with debts, not so good for them with Loadsamoney.

IMHO

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I'll take that as an affirmative answer to my question, Mr R.

The sad thing (from your perspective) is that you're going to be one of the first to moan when what you've wished for comes to fruition and causes you all sorts of problems.

Or are you just being a polemical wotsit? If so can I respectfully suggest that you raise the level a tad?

Back to the book and my favourite bit had to be when Mr Riddle said that many people believed the cup run when we beat Palace was a reason why we missed out on a play-off spot.

I hope these comments aren't being passed onto his legal representative.