Our Club Our Rules

by Peter Crowther

The story of FC United of how it came about, why it came about and its importance for the future of English football.

184 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2007

About the author

Peter Crowther, born in 1949, is a journalist, anthologist, and the author of many short stories and novels. He is the co-founder of PS Publishing and the editor of Postscripts.

Reviews

[Michael Uldale · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really enjoyed reading this book. It is honest and a delight because it is so refreshing. It is a book about passion and shared joy. More importantly, it is about a refusal to accept a "big business" solution which would appear to have hijacked loyalty and turned it into a means of servicing an almost unfathomable debt. The book also shows a free thinker - and one who is not afraid to admit humanity and flaws - and the whole series of essays is about courage, determination and spirit, and of course, seizing the day and being part of making something good happen anew. It will have detractors perhaps, but for me, there is something yet deeper in all this. Football first and foremost, of course, but that belies a noble and deeper hidden narrative, which is also a paean upon the spoliation of much that was public and whose sale would be inevitable during and after the 1979 UK general election. Nowadays, a large proportion of the public accepts international ownership without either protest or question. They would do well to read this work. It is brave and in the best model and tradition of the early Labour movement. I don't think that the author whose photograph and description appears at the top of this page is correct either. I am almost certain of that.