Staying Up: A Fan Behing the Scenes in the Premiership - Hardcover

Richly comic...the year's best soccer book by far (Ian Hamilton, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH)

A classic, some wonderful insights into the mind of Premiership Man. (FOOTBALL 365)

This is a great book...tremendouly thoughtful and well written. (TOTAL FOOTBALL)

If I had known that you were going to write this sort of book I would never have allowed to access to myself or the team. Having said that I think it's one of the best books about football ever written. The closest anybody could get to what it's really l (Gordon Strachan to the author.)

Premiership football club 'Coventry City, like the poor, are always with us', once considered The Times. Only Arsenal and Everton have been in the top flight longer than Coventry's 30 years and on no less than 11 occasions the club have escaped relegation on the final day of the season. The FA Cup in 1987 is their sole major trophy. They are widely regarded as the barnacles on the ship of the Premiership: clinging to the bottom, abrasive and impossible to scrape off. Rick Gekoski gives a supporter's eye view, seen from the inside, of a football season in the Premier League. He has been allowed to look behind the scenes, to watch, to overhear, to ask questions. It is the first book that has allowed its author full access to a top club - from players to board members. In fact, the club's 1997-98 season has proved highly successful for Coventry: more of a case of staying up at the top rather than staying up!