Category Archives: Michael Calvin

Review: Whose Game Is It Anyway? Football, Life, Love and Loss by Michael Calvin

Posted on June 8, 2021 by ianhaspinall

Michael Calvin’s latest book is part memoir, part a reconnection with football after falling out of love with the game. Written at a time of Covid-19 and when football has never seemed so distant from the fans he looks to … Continue reading →

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Review: State of Play – Under the Skin of the Modern Game by Michael Calvin

Posted on November 15, 2018 by ianhaspinall

Award-winning sports writer Michael Calvin’s latest book is an ambitious, in-depth and wide-ranging examination of the current game. Calvin takes as his inspiration Arthur Hopcrafts’s ‘The Football Man,’ which was written two years after England won the World Cup and … Continue reading →

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Book review: Dreams of paradise so easily lost

Posted on June 13, 2017 by ianhaspinall

Michael Calvin’s final book in his trilogy that includes ‘The Nowhere Men’ (scouting) and ‘Living on the Volcano’ (management) is a telling critique of youth development in English football. He journeys through the landscape of youth football interviewing players, parents … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Living on the Volcano – The Secrets of Surviving as a Football Manager by Michael Calvin

Posted on October 6, 2015 by ianhaspinall

At a time when the average tenure of a football manager is getting shorter than ever, Michael Calvin provides an absorbing insight into the mind of the modern-day football manager. Calvin gets into the psyche of managers who are currently … Continue reading →

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