50 Years Not Out

by John Taylor

My story is possibly typical of a young boy obsessed with sport, especially football, growing up through the late 1960s and early 1970s in the days when parks were full of boys playing football and cricket every night as their main interest without the distraction of social media and computer games. Derby County Football Club were then to become a major part of my life from the age of seven for the next fifty years experiencing the highs and lows of a club steeped in tradition with a very chequered history with it's fantastic fan base.

393 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 27, 2023

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Reviews

[Kurt Lewin · Rating 2 out of 5]

Very disappointed by this. To be honest I thought at times it was written by AI as most of the time it would just run through the results of each season but add no flavour to proceedings or not enough. For example, there was only a brief mention of the spygate scandal and the play off finals got half a page. There were also some errors like repeated sentences next to eachother which made me think it didn't have an editor. The only thing that made me think it wasn't written by AI was the author spending too much time on stuff from his personal life like his marathon running endeavours which respectfully is not the reason I am reading this book. I give it 2 stars because I enjoyed remembering the players and games I had forgotten about but feel this book pales in comparison to Ollie Wrights DCFC season reviews.