I Can't Help Falling in Love

Growing Up as a Football Addict

Gregory Whitaker

• Publisher: Pitch Publishing Ltd
• eBook ISBN:
  9781785315909
• Year: 2019

I Can't Help Falling in Love with You offers a personal, heartfelt yet tellingly critical survey of the changing world of football fandom. Gregory Whitaker's coming-of-age memoir provides an emotional insight into the modern game from the perspective of a bona fide fanatic who has experienced all the highs and lows of football's last 20 years.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Introduction
• ‘This is getting better and better and better!’
• Handbags at dawn
• Fer Ark, Lawrie Dudfield and raining rust
• The first cut is the deepest
• Change
• The Galacticos: A footballing masterclass
• Block E5, Seat 151
• ‘E I E I E I O! Up The Football League We Go!’
• En-gerrrr-land, Wayne Rooney and the Sol Campbell conspiracy
• Away days: Pies, bets and Michael Keane
• Hullsborough
• Stepping up
• The winker, the stamper and the end of the ‘golden generation’
• Survival
• Daring to dream
• Que será, será
• One day like this
• Premier League? We’re having a laugh
• London 0 Hull 4
• Almost heaven, Barcelona
• Modern football is rubbish
• Vuvuzelas and disillusionment
• The grass isn’t always greener
• Ups, downs and the one German that misses penalties
• Why I dislike Kieran Gibbs
• European blues
• The gloomiest promotion
• Rock bottom
• The final pilgrimages
• Salvation in a blue waistcoat
• Photos