Fifty Shades of White

Half a Century of Pain and Glory with Leeds United

Gary Edwards

• Publisher: Pitch Publishing Ltd
• eBook ISBN:
  9781785312595
• Year: 2016

Fifty Shades of White is Gary Edwards's fifth book, and he returns with more fabulous, rib-tickling tales that come with half a century of following one of the most talked about football clubs in the world. Like the time he was asked to accompany a four-and-a-half-foot tall monk with a large hearing aid, who hadn't previously left his abbey for 25 years, to a Leeds United game as part of a BBC documentary. Or the time he escaped from the hospital, still in his hospital gown and attached to a catheter, a blood bag, several needles, and with two tampons stuck up his nose to travel 70 miles up the A1 in a thunderstorm for a relatively meaningless Leeds game at Darlington. There is a fascinating, controversial, and hilarious insight into Leeds United's former owner Ken Bates, gleaned from being a special guest at his birthday and Christmas parties for eight consecutive years. Fifty Shades of White gives a unique fan insight into the club and a life devoted to Leeds United.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Dedication
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Foreword by Neil Redfearn
• Divine White
• Blood, Sweat and Tears
• Cornish Tease
• You Say Slovakia, I Say Slovenia
• Call Us Legion, We Are Many
• Viking Inflation
• Free Wales
• Julie Andrews, Mozart and Jody Morris
• Goats Stories
• Springtime For Hitler
• Trevor’s Ireland
• Bates Motel
• White Rose Buds
• The Vikings Are Back... This Time With Their Boots . .
• Whites! Camera! Action!
• Clown Princes
• The Crazy World of Massimo Cellino
• Endnote
• Photographs