FRD Book Club: Provided You Don't Kiss Me, Duncan Hamilton
Football Ramble
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4.6 • 9.3K Ratings
🗓️ 19 April 2020
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to the pilot episode of Football Ramble Daily’s Book Club! Each time, Luke Moore will be joined by Kate Mason and Andy Brassell to delve into the pantheon of football literature and pull a different book from the shelf for discussion.
Our first entry is one of football’s defining biographical works, as the Nottingham Evening Post’s Duncan Hamilton pens his extraordinary 20-year tale covering then-Nottingham Forest manager Brian Clough. We get stuck into the process behind Hamilton’s writing, break down the often strained relationship between the author and his volatile subject and reflect on the life of one of English football’s most captivating and controversial characters.
Buy Duncan Hamilton's Provided You Don't Kiss Me here: https://www.waterstones.com/book/provided-you-dont-kiss-me/duncan-hamilton/9780007247110
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| 0:00.0 | I heard all the wind and the wind all the way in Indonesia that this fellow talks too much. |
| 0:08.0 | This is another Muhammad Ali, that's just one Muhammad Ali. |
| 0:11.2 | And I want you to whoever you are, you are not a fighter and you don't take my job. |
| 0:17.0 | I'm the talker. |
| 0:18.0 | Now, Cloth, I've had enough. |
| 0:19.4 | Stop it. |
| 0:20.9 | Hello and welcome to Football Rumble Daily Book Club with me, Luke Moore. |
| 0:26.0 | Me Get Mason. |
| 0:27.5 | And me, Andy Rassel. |
| 0:29.0 | On today's episode, we're going to focus on one of the definitive accounts of Old |
| 0:33.1 | Big Aid himself, Brian Clough. |
| 0:35.2 | It's Duncan Hamilton's provided you don't kiss me. |
| 0:37.8 | How do you react, though, when someone, you know, from your playing staff comes in and |
| 0:41.1 | says, boss, I think you've got, I think you're doing this wrongly. |
| 0:43.2 | God, well, I ask him, which way he thinks it shouldn't be done. |
| 0:46.9 | We get down to it. |
| 0:48.5 | And then we talk about it for 20 minutes. |
| 0:51.0 | And then we decide I was right. |
| 0:52.7 | Yes, that's right. |
| 0:53.7 | Duncan Hamilton in his role as football reporter for the Nottinghamshire Evening Post covers |
| 0:58.0 | Nottingham Forest for over 20 years from February, 1977. |
| 1:02.7 | In Provided, you don't kiss me. |
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