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Celebrities' Favourite Football Teams
By Chris Cowlin

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It’s great to see how many celebrities’ support the blues – a fascinating book that I could read over and over again, also great to see that the Willow Foundation is benefiting from the sales of the book.
www.jasonmarriner.com
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CHRIS COWLIN
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Celebrities' Favourite Football Teams Trivia is always a useful tool for any football supporter. Mix it with a celebrity angle and it’s enough to generate conversation no matter which company you are in. Sophie Ellis Bextor on the radio? Oh yeah, she supports Norwich City. Keith Deller, the former darts world champion, on the telly? He follows The Canaries’ arch-rivals Ipswich Town. Heather Mills-McCartney all over the papers? She supports Sunderland. Apparently. Celebrities’ Favourite Football Teams is a mine of information. The list is endless involving celebs you never thought would follow the beautiful game in this country. For instance, Ray Liotta, star of the bloody gangster flick Goodfellas, is a Tottenham fan. Nigel Havers, the old smoothie, says his favourite player is Zat Knight. The list is endless – and absorbing. Some of those asked appear to have sat on the fence a little. Radio Five Live commentator Alan Green, well known to be a Liverpool supporter, suggests a safer bet for neutrality with Macclesfield Town instead. Angus Loughran, known to be keen on Manchester United, forwards Altrincham. Some of the sources for this list could be questionable – “these were obtained by reading various interviews, websites and talking to them in person” is a little vague from the author – I am not sure it was worth listing famous people who responded to say there were not interested in football either – shame on such luminaries as Paul Daniels, Bob Holness and Alan Titchmarsh. The rest of the book aside from a foreword by Sir Alex Ferguson, contains comments from the celebrities contacted by Chris Cowlin. Their messages are reproduced in exact detail, which is a little strange. Maybe it is just me but also some of the celebrities are ‘stars’ I have never heard of. Michael Perham, Moira Kerr, Martin Popplewell, Michael Marshall-Smith, Maurice Amdur, Adger Brown, Sophie Moleta? Not sure what list they are on, the odd Z one according to Cowlin, but it’s not one that has crossed my radar. A disproportionate amount of people from the ‘underworld’ and some dubbed ‘famous football hooligan’ are included too. Obvious that they would follow a team I guess. It is only £5.99 and all royalties go to a very good cause in The Willow Foundation but it’s not the ‘must-read book’ it claims to be, rather another route to some trivial information about football clubs and the celebrities, or non-celebrities, who support them. Apex Publishing Ltd produce the book and their website is www.apexpublishing.co.uk
Setanta Sports

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Very enjoyable reading!
Ashleigh Rose, KiCK! Magazine
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Kentish Saturday Observer

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A nice stocking filler for Christmas!
Sheree Earnshaw, Living Tenerife Magazine (Books Editor)
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David Powter, Winger Magazine

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Welsh Football Magazine

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Christian Market Place Magazine

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COMPETITION: CELEBRITIES' FAVOURITE FOOTBALL TEAMS
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Shoot Magazine

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Celebrities' Favourite Football Teams If you are looking for a stocking filler for your man this Christmas he will just love this compilation of facts about celebrities and their teams. Snooker star Stephen Hendry admits to his father taking him to Tynecastle to watch Hearts and if he misbehaved, well he took him back the next week. Menzies Campbell says his favourite team is Scotland and remembers the late great Jim Baxter as one of the greatest players in the world. How come this guy never became Prime Minister? Paul Coia TV Presenter and broadcaster supports Celtic as does Frank McClintock, Bono, Billy Connolly, John Higgins, snooker champion and many more. Meanwhile the other “old firm” team include in their celebrity supporters actor Robert Carlyle, Andy “The Viking” Fordham and comedian Andy Cameron. As one Parkhead wag said, “Aye you ‘ave to be a comedian to support that lot”. Sir Alex of Old Trafford writes the foreword for this new publication which is a must buy for lovers of the beautiful game. All royalties from the sale of the book go to The Willow Foundation, a charity established by the goalkeeping legend Bob Wilson and his wife Megs. The charity enables seriously ill young adults enjoying a “Special Day” with their family and friends. So you can actually give a useful gift to your guy this Christmas and help people less fortunate than yourself. Almost 200 pages of fun reading and costing less than £6 this has to be a great buy this Christmas. * Celebrities Favourite Football Teams compiled by Chris Cowlin and published by Apex Publishing, Clacton on Sea price £5.99 ISBN number 1-904444-84-9 / 978-1-904444-84-8
Gourock & District Magazine
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Chris Cowlin has hit on a winning format with not only an insight into celebrity but also why we support the teams we do. There is a huge slice of nostalgia running throughout the book as various celebrities recall their first games and who their boyhood, and girlhood, for that matter, heroes were.
Neil Jones, Colchester Gazette
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World Soccer: The essential football magazine

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I found the book very interesting indeed. Football plays a very big part of some people's lives and memories, and it is wonderful to see the huge response Chris has had for the book. The book is both interesting and entertaining. I'm very glad to have been a part of something that will help others, and wish Chris all the very best with the book, I'm sure it will raise lots of money for the Willow Foundation.
www.ronstirling.co.uk
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Celebrities' Favourite Football Teams If you are looking for a stocking filler for your man this Christmas he will just love this compilation of facts about celebrities and their teams. Of course Jeff Stelling from SKY TV, former Coronation Street star Phillip Middlemiss and champion golfer are mentioned in the same breath as Hartlepool United but there are some simply fascinating short references to other personalities who love the beautiful game. Leeds United (cough cough) are mentioned (cough) and did you know (cough) that they are supported (cough) by the Who Wants to be a Millionaire contestant, Major Charles (cough cough) Ingram? On a lighter note Fat Boy slim supported Mr. Bates team as a lad but since he moved south he has become a Director at Brighton & Hove Albion. And I thought he had taste! Snooker star Stephen Hendry admits to his father taking him to Tynecastle to watch Hearts and if he misbehaved, well he took him back the next week. TV legend Jim (Bullseye) Bowen is President of league new boys Morecambe but don’t mention that to Pools fans. He is actually a Blackburn Rovers supporter and former football coach who taught P.E. Readers of the Mail may be surprised to read that darts champion Bob Anderson is actually a Middlesbrough fan. He says he just loves people from the area. This man has taste! Dickie Bird, the legendary umpire, he with an accent as thick as rice pudding has supported Barnsley for 68 years and remembers when season tickets where……well you get my drift. Sir Alex of Old Trafford writes the foreword for this new publication which is a must buy for lovers of the beautiful game. All royalties from the sale of the book go to The Willow Foundation, a charity established by the goalkeeping legend Bob Wilson and his wife Megs. The charity enables seriously ill young adults enjoying a “Special Day” with their family and friends. So you can actually give a useful gift to your guy this Christmas and help people less fortunate than yourself. Almost 200 pages of fun reading and costing less than £6 this has to be a great buy this Christmas. * Celebrities Favourite Football Teams compiled by Chris Cowlin and published by Apex Publishing, Clacton on Sea, price £5.99. ISBN number 1-904444-84-9 / 978-1-904444-84-8
Hartlepool Mail
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Well, they’re all in there; Peter Alliss, Peter Hain, MP, Jeffrey Archer, Bill Maynard, Paddy Ashdown, Nicholas Parsons, Robin Askwith, Roy “Pretty Boy” Shaw, Michael Aspel, Jeremy Beadle… and just about any A, B and C-list celeb you’d care to mention. I’d never have taken Sarah Ash for a Crystal Palace fan, but by the same token I couldn’t imagine Jim Bowen backing any other club than Blackburn Rovers. To be honest, I couldn’t imagine Kenneth Branagh supporting any team, but to my amazement I find he actually roots for Tottenham Hotspur. What a fascinating book this is, relating as it does the soccer affiliations of the Great and the Good. I started reading it at 8.06pm and finished it at 2.39am. I just couldn’t put it down. Perhaps the icing on the cake is the fact that all the author’s royalties go to the Willow Foundation – a worthy cause if ever there was one, providing as it does support and help for seriously ill young adults.
Mike Hallowell, The Shields Gazette
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Wolverhampton Express & Star

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Many a bloody bar room brawl has started with a seemingly innocent debate over which football side a famous actor or musician supports? Finally Chris Cowlin has put an end to the bloodshed and violence with a fantastic book that delivers the final word on the subject. What instantly strikes you about Celebrities’ Favourite Football Teams is the painstaking amount research that has obviously been given over to its creation. The number of celebrities covered is astonishing and some of their recollections of their childhood football memories truly touching. With the royalties going to a great charitable cause, the likes of Sir Alex Ferguson appeared happy to contribute, rather than forced, and the enthusiasm shines through in the text. A great read.
Alasdair Gold, Hertfordshire Mercury
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This book is very impressive and what a great idea! The book is well laid out and genuinely interesting. I hope Chris make's loads of money for charity.
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East Anglian Daily Times

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U's Review: The Official Matchday Magazine of Colchester United Football Club

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Hornsey Journal

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CELEBRITIES' FAVOURITE FOOTBALL TEAMS Compiled by Chris Cowlin.
Inside Time: The National Monthly Newspaper for Prisoners

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It can seem like football is the most important thing in a man's life and in this easy read, with a foreward by Sir Alex Ferguson, you can find out which team celebrity men and women adore the most. TV presenter Jim Bowen recalls paying half a crown to see Blackburn Rovers and watching his first ever game against Wolves. And former Olympic athlete, Roger Black, who was born and bred in Portsmouth admits to being a Southampton supporter - well somebody has to be!
Sally Williams, Western Mail
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If you’ve always wondered which top celebs support the same football team as you, this excellent book will tell you, but get ready for a few big surprises here and there!
www.4thegame.com
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ECFA Magazine: The Official Magazine of Essex County Football Association

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Football’s Premier appeal by Simon Freeman Marketing has taken the English Premier League to practically every country. Millions of fans who now support their ‘favourite’ clubs based in cities they would struggle to place on a map. Simon Freeman reports The climax of the English Premiership today, when the championship will be decided in games watched by tens of millions of people in 200 countries around the world, including the UAE, does not interest Carroll Clarke, 67, a retired bank manager who lives in Wrexham, north Wales. Clarke’s season ended last month when Wrexham, the club he has adored for 60 years, were beaten at Hereford. Though they still had two matches to play, they were consequently relegated from Division Two of the Football League, the bottom rung of the professional ladder and known as the Fourth Division before it was “rebranded” four years ago to make it sound more exciting, to the Blue Square Premier League, which football fans regard as the wasteland of the non-league. Emirates Stadium, home of Arsenal. “I was so disappointed,” said Clarke, the chairman of Wrexham supporters’ club. “I still can’t believe it. We’ve never been out of the league before.” He said that he could not be bothered with today’s Premiership games, which will see Manchester United and Chelsea fight for the title and three teams battle to avoid relegation. “My season is well and truly over,” he said. “I am going away.” Today will be one of the most lucrative days since the Premiership was established in 1992. It was created because England’s leading clubs wanted to exploit the money-making opportunities offered by the gentrification of the game and new technology and did not believe the existing structure, a First Division and three others controlled by the Football Association, was satisfactory. Now two broadcasters, Sky and Setanta, pay around 600 million pounds (Dh 4,296 million) a year to cover games. The top clubs – Manchester United, Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool – are constantly expanding international brands. Other West European leagues – the Spanish, Italian, French and German – are popular, but none matches the Premiership. In sports shops in the malls of Abu Dhabi there are piles of replica shirts, in home and away colours, for the big four English teams. Buried beneath them are shirts from European rivals such as Real Madrid, Juventus and Bayern Munich. Showtime, the pay television station which broadcasts from Dubai to the Middle East and Africa, is showing all 10 Premiership matches today, billing the exercise as “live and exclusive”, to satisfy what it calls “huge” interest. The airline Emirates is paying Arsenal £100 million (Dh 716 million) for the privilege of having “Fly Emirates” plastered on players’ shirts for eight years. The airline has also bought “the naming rights” for 15 years for the club’s new stadium in London. Abu Dhabi’s airline, Etihad, also believes it benefits from association with the Premiership. It sponsors Chelsea though it does not pay enough to displace Samsung from the team strip. Carroll Clarke’s love of football extends beyond Wrexham. He is also the treasurer of the Football Supporters’ Federation, an umbrella organisation for supporters’ clubs in England and Wales representing 130,000 fans – but he cares only about his own club. He does not understand people who say they support Premiership clubs they see only on television. “I meet them everywhere. They say, ‘Oh, we support Manchester United.’ But how can they if they never go to games?” This is an extreme view. Kevin Miles, international co-ordinator of the FSF, said it was possible to like a club from afar without compromising your status as a real fan. Miles, whose team, Newcastle United, is in the Premiership, said the question of what constituted a true fan was “rich cultural territory”. He said he had “a soft spot” for Exeter City, a non-league club in the West Country, a long way from Newcastle, in the North East. He did not know why. But he agreed with Mr Clarke that supporting a team was a lifelong commitment: “You get infected at an early age. It stays with you for ever. You can never change. You can’t say, ‘My club is crap and I am going to support someone else’. You are stuck with them.” That is also the view of Graham Brookland, 41, who has followed Aldershot Town FC since he was a boy. The club, based in a garrison town near London, went out of business in 1992 but was reformed a few months later. It has just won promotion to Division Two of the Football League. Brookland said the club’s success had been applauded around the world by the Aldershot diaspora. “We have fans all over the place. The States. Finland. Everywhere. Most have a connection with the town but some people became fans because we start with ‘a’ and were always the first name whenever league clubs were listed.” Despite philosophical differences over the nature of real fanship, Clarke and the rest agree that the Premiership is a splendid and exotic spectacle (337 foreign players from 66 countries). They also agree that only their own teams, many of which are even more hopeless than Wrexham, excite or depress them. If the Premiership is a collection of Ferraris, Porsches and Lamborghinis, they are the fans who often support teams evoking clapped-out bangers with dodgy brakes. Sometimes the affection they feel for their clubs is logical – perhaps their father was a fan – but people can be gripped by teams such as Crewe, Leyton Orient, Macclesfield and Rochdale for bizarre reasons. Sometimes it even seems that the team chose them, rather than vice versa. They have never been to these places, and are never likely to do so. They have never seen these teams play in the flesh. They may, perhaps, have seen them occasionally on television in an early morning round-up of minor matches. But still they follow the results, wherever they are. So last weekend, when the season for the three divisions below the Premiership ended, they celebrated around the world when they heard that West Bromwich Albion, Stoke City, Swansea City and Nottingham Forest had been promoted and mourned that Leicester City, Luton Town, Colchester United and Port Vale had been relegated. Sometimes there are sentimental ties. Young Iraqis in North America and Australia, whose families emigrated long ago, are obsessed with teams in Iraq that they have never seen — and will never see. Many have set up websites and message boards devoted to football there. A 36-year-old Canadian journalist who has just moved to Abu Dhabi, is keen on Blackburn Rovers, a muscular side in the Premiership. He has never been to Blackburn, a grimy former mill town outside Manchester. He said he became a Rovers’ fan in 1994 when he was in a bar in Tokyo. “I had always picked teams by the colours of the jerseys. The Brits I was with that night said this was appalling. They told me to chose a team. So I looked at the league table. Blackburn were near the bottom and I chose them.” Mark Lynch, a 30-year-old construction manager, formed the Dubai Manchester City Supporters’ Club last year. It meets on match days at a hotel in the city. Mr Lynch said most of the members came from Manchester though one man, a Londoner, had become a City fan by accident: “He was a Cockney. He went to watch Spurs who were at home to City. He ended up with the City fans and thought they were great. So he stuck with them.” A recent book* explored the mysteries of football fanship. Tens of dozens of “celebrities” – actors, athletes, television commentators, models, chefs and so on – explained why they supported teams. Some admitted that it had all been an accident. Neil Mullarkey, an actor, said he liked Manchester United, though not for the usual reason, that the team were fabulously successful. He remembered seeing a picture of Nobby Stiles, “a pugnacious midfield player who was short, wore glasses off the pitch and had lost most of his teeth, in 1967. A cigarette card probably. Red is my favourite colour so I liked the look of him ... I liked his style, his smile, his teeth (or lack thereof) and his thick glasses.” Another actor, Paul Nugent, also became infatuated with United. “One day, I was given a football sticker album and loved the sound of their nickname, ‘The Red Devils’. Shortly after, I was changing around my room and in taking down a poster I’d got in some magazine of the pop band A-Ha, I discovered on the reverse was a poster of the 85/86 United squad, so I stuck it up on my wall that way instead. And most importantly, a little later, I was hanging around with my three best pals, from whom I always had to be different. They were all Liverpool supporters. I started arguing, saying I was a Man U fan.” Others became fans of clubs because of family ties. Jeremy Bates, a former tennis player, likes Stoke City because aunts and uncles lived there. Adrian Chiles, a presenter on BBC Television, follows West Bromwich Albion because his grandfather loved them – and Chiles loved his grandfather. Or it was an accident of friendship. Roger Black, once an Olympic athlete, is a fan of Southampton on the south coast, though he grew up a short drive away in Portsmouth, where fans detest Southampton. “A friend of my father took to watch them. It was my first professional game and I stuck with them,” he said. Or it is geography. The ex-golfer, Peter Alliss, now a revered television commentator, has grown fond of Aldershot because he lives near the town. In the book he talks about his dream, that one day the club might return to the Football League. Doubtless he paused from his commentating duties and smiled when he heard the good news of Aldershot’s long awaited elevation. * Celebrities’ Favourite Football Teams by Chris Cowlin. Published by Apex Publishing, June 2007.
The National (Abu Dhabi Newspaper)

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Let’s f ace it, we’re a nation of Nosey Parkers. We love to know what other people eat, drink and think, who they sleep with and, naturally, which team they favour. So Celebrities’ Favourite Football Teams is a goldmine of gossip not only for the genuine fan, but the pub banter and invaluable for the occasional bit of name-dropping in front of the box. “Hey, bet you didn’t know Dale Winton supported Arsenal.” Actually you’d be intrigued as to who follows who in a handy little book which lists the footy affiliations of more celebs than you’ll find getting out of any TV jungle; though I’m surprised that, even for charity, my old mate Motty plays coy and wishes to remain “an unbiased commentator.” Whisper it quietly, but I hear he’s a closet Watford fan. As someone who started out covering amateurs Tooting and Mitcham as a cub sports reporter in South London and nowadays hankers wistfully after the West Ham of the Moore-Hurst-Peters era, when football rally was the beautiful game. it is comforting to discover in these pages a soul mate in the old king of the bare knuckle boxing ring Roy “Pretty Boy” Shaw.
Alan Hubbard, Independent on Sunday (Sports Columnist)
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WHICH ONE IS YOUR FAVOURITE?
Clacton Gazette

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This book is great, I really enjoyed it, well done Chris!
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CHRIS COWLIN
Burntwood Post

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SOCCER GREATS
The Willow: News from the Willow Foundation

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Time Out (Dubai)

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Programme Monthly & Football Collectable

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CELEBRITIES' FAVOURITE FOOTBALL TEAMS - CHRIS COWLIN Published by Apex Publishing Ltd. Seasoned football writer Chris Cowlin sent out 500 letters and emails to celebrities asking these questions - what is your favourite football team and why? And who were/are your favourite players past/present? Not all of the 500 famous folk replied (and we're dying to know who didn't!) but many did, resulting in an eclectic collection of contributions ranging from sportsmen to politicians, movie stars, authors, musicians and television stars. There's even the occasional "underworld figure" in there too. With a foreword by Sir Alex Ferguson and all royalties going to The Willow Foundation, this quirky soccer-fest is a fun read, a good deed and a great pressie for footie fans.
Daily Record

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Everyone knows who Elton John supports, and that the Gallaghers of Oasis fame live and breathe Manchester City. but have you ever wondered about others? How about tennis sensation Andy Murray? Or snooker superstar Stephen Hendry? Well now, with the aid of a new book, you can find out their favourite team along with those of lots of other well known people. 'Celebrities' Favourite Football Teams' compiled by Chris Cowlin and published by Apex Publishing provides the answers to those questions and many others. Cowlin contacted over 500 celebrities asking them who they supported and who their favourite player was. And the replies, as Cowlin admits himself, are always interesting and often revealing. More than a mere list of names and teams, it is a fun read and has a foreword by Sir Alex Ferguson. The author has donated all of his royalties to the Willow Foundation, a fine charity set up by former Arsenal goalkeeper Bob Wilson. So not only do you get a good read, but you're also donating to a good cause. THE League has three copies of the book - signed by the author - For the first three readers to email us with the answer to the following question: Which club once had Elton John as it's chairman? E-mail your answers to theleague@london.com And if you don't win, you can find details of how to get a copy at apexpublishing.co.uk along with a number of other great football publications from Apex Publishing.
The League Magazine

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Cannock & Burntwood Post

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A fun read! Not only do you get a good read, but you're also donating to a good cause.
Vince Cooper, The League Magazine (Editor)
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Some celebrities wear their club colours on their sleeve. Who doesn’t know that Robbie Williams supports Port Vale or that Fatboy Slim follows Brighton & Hove Albion? Others are less forthcoming about their football allegiances. Did you know that Noel Edmonds is a West Ham fan? Or that Tory leader David Cameron supports Aston Villa? These are just some of the more surprising celebrity ‘outings’ contained in Celebrities’ Favourite Football Teams, a book which does exactly what it says on the cover. The idea is simple. Chris Cowlin sent around 500 letters and emails to a range of celebrities, asking them two questions: what’s your favourite team; who are your favourite players. Sadly, a fair few of the answers are also rather simple, with many replying as though it were a school project rather than a chance to talk football. Too many are of the “I support England” variety. However, occasionally the stars do enter into the spirit, and here Jim Bowen (Blackburn Rovers), Graham Taylor (Scunthorpe) and Dickie Bird (Barnsley) deserve honourable mentions. Their lengthy and interesting contributions are among the highlights of the book. Generally, the celeb list is top-heavy in shady characters described as ‘underworld author’ or ‘former football hooligan’, and the book runs out of steam halfway through, reverting to a list of celebs and their teams. However, with all profits going to the Willow Foundation, a charity set up by ex-Arsenal goalie Bob Wilson to help seriously ill young adults, to complain seems churlish. Overall, it’s a good idea for a very good cause; it’s just a pity that it is only occasionally a good read.
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Shropshire Star

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DID you know Tory MP Boris Johnson supports Newcastle United because son Milo "venerates" them? Or that TV presenter and actor Nicholas Parsons is a Leicester City fan? These are just two fascinating facts from a new paperback, Celebrities' Favourite Football Teams, compiled by Chris Cowlin. The book is not celebrity gossip or snippets gleaned from interviews, but instead comes straight from the horses' mouths - with celebrities from showbiz and sport sending contributions to Chris Cowlin about their favourite teams - and more importantly why they chose them. The foreword is by Sir Alex Ferguson. Perhaps one of the most interesting parts is the section where certain celebrities have replied they had no favourite team or any interest in football. You'd be surprised who's on the list! Royalties from the sale of the £5.99 book, published by Apex Publishing Ltd, will be donated to The Willow Foundation, a charity set up by the legendary Bob Wilson and his wife Megs in 1999 to enable seriously ill young adults to enjoy the treat of a special day with family and friends. A great read, great fun and great value. It's available from Apex Publishing Ltd, PO Box 7086, Clacton on Sea, Essex CO15 5WN or telephone 01255 428500 (check) or check out the website at www.apexpublishing.co.uk WE have three copies of the book to give away. Simply answer the question on the entry form and send to Celebrities Competition, The Mercury, 25 Regent Street, Great Yarmouth NR30 1RQ to arrive no later than next Friday, August 10. The first three correct entries out of the hat will be the winners and normal Archant competition rules apply.
Great Yarmouth Mercury

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An excellent book by respected author Chris Cowlin.
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CHRIS COWLIN
Walsall Observer

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Sporting heroes of the stars revealed... a really fascinating insight!
Neil Greenfield, Tottenham Journal (Sub-Editor)
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Marvellous stuff, where else would you discover that Ken Hom supports Leeds and Britain's most dangerous man Charles Bronson would love the chance to spend an afternoon at Kenilworth Road?
www.twtd.co.uk
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A great read, great fun and great value.
Anne Edwards, Great Yarmouth Mercury (Editor)
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BOOTED OUT BY THE CLUB HE LOVED - BUT FERGIE STILL GETS THEIR PROGRAMME EACH WEEK By Adam Lanigan
The Weekly News

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Full House Magazine

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