Addicted to Football

A Journey from Anfield to Almost Everywhere.

Jon Newby

• Publisher: Pitch Publishing
• eBook ISBN:
  9781801502399
• Year: 2022

Addicted to Football: A Journey from Anfield to Almost Everywhere is the autobiography of former professional footballer Jon Newby. His career took him from a single Premier League appearance with Liverpool to playing for clubs all over the country in the top eight tiers of the football pyramid. There was also a spell in Scottish football and a venture into non-league management. As a young player, Jon achieved his dream as he walked out in front of a packed Kop at Anfield. But ultimately his name was better known by Bury, Morecambe and Colwyn Bay fans, rather than by Liverpool fans. His story gives a fascinating insight into the unpredictable world of the journeyman footballer, covering battles with injuries, managers and even his own mind. Jon's biggest battle, however, came when he was diagnosed with an incurable heart condition and the game he was addicted to put his life in serious danger.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Dedication
• Foreword
• Introduction
• Prologue
• 1. I want to play for Liverpool
• 2. It was like starting a new school
• 3. I wasn’t emotional about leaving Liverpool
• 4. Different fuckin’ class
• 5. The club have accepted a bid for you
• 6. If we don’t get promoted, I will have to leave
• 7. I don’t have many regrets from my career but …
• 8. What’s the old saying? Never go back
• 9. I don’t think I’ll ever get fit
• 10. Where do I go from here?
• 11. Going through the motions
• 12. I was back in the Football League
• 13. If I scored every chance, I’d still be at Liverpool
• 14. Even winning the league I never felt part of it
• 15. It was a club I wasn’t sad to leave
• 16. Favourites to go down
• 17. Do you want the job?
• 18. It’s time for a change
• 19. Keep playing for as long as you can
• 20. Royton away, two o’clock kick-off
• 21. Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy
• 22. One last game
• 23. Coming full circle
• Acknowledgements
• Photos