-- Reviews by the Famous and well Known
This book was obviously a labour of love for Chris Cowlin. His effort in contacting all the celebs included in the book is amazing and the result is fascinating. The varied amount of text sent back from the celebrities helped me to read a little bit into the type of people they were. Jim Bowen, for example devoted two pages to his beloved Blackburn Rovers whereas Neil Hamilton replied with two lines. But at least people did take the time to reply and did their little bit to raise money for The Willow Foundation. Continuing on from the contibuters is a section in which Chris has researched the favourite teams of a plethera of names. This is a delightful book for any football fan and will help to raise cash for a worthy cause. Well done Chris Cowlin and Apex Publishing Ltd.
Adam Pearson, Author of Various Sports Quiz Books
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This book proves that the Beautiful Game makes even famous people random about
their choice of team and ludicrously optimistic about their chance of victory -
how utterly refreshing!
Lembit Öpik, Member of Parliament (Montgomeryshire)
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A good book by a good man, Chris Cowlin puts his money where his mouth is supporting the Willow Foundation helping others. TOP MAN... Respect.
Lindsay Frayne, Author of 'The Frayne Bros'
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Another great book by Chris Cowlin, well orchestrated, very well put together, not only a very interesting read on celebrities favourite teams, Chris also gives his full support to the Willow Foundation helping young adults who are seriously ill have a special day. 10 out of 10 mate you are the STAR ... One in a million.
Leighton Frayne, Author of 'The Frayne Bros'
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A great book, a must for all football fans.
Roy Shaw, Famous Armed Robber & Author
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I was amazed to see which Celebrities' supported which teams, a book that all football fans would enjoy, nice to see that all of Chris' royalties are being donated to The Willow Foundation.
Nicholas Bateman, TV Presenter and Ex-Big Brother Star
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I found this book really interesting, it gives a different angle on famous people's upbringings and roots.
Chris Day, Footballer (Crystal Palace, QPR, Millwall)
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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, Author of 'Ode to Jol: A Spurs Fan's Diary'
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One of the most unique ideas for a fact book that I have ever come across. Crammed with information on houeshold names from throughout the showbiz spectrum, this book unfortunately highlights one thing that I have suspected for years - that very few of us support Cardiff City! Great book for talking points in the pub or to make the arduous road trip for away days that little bit shorter. A must for all football fans and celeb spotters!
David Williams, Author of 'Desert England'
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I had picked this book up in Waterstone's in Colchester on a shopping trip, as this kind of "trivia" book always interests me. I especially find it interesting to see the professional players who actually supported a team that was far removed from the one they actually played for. It has a really good cross-section of celebrities, and even the ones who professed to not particularly having an interest in football came up with good answers to the questions. Very enjoyable, interesting and well put together.
Dave Goody, Author of 'A Century United: The Centenary History of Southend United'
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(Photo: Frank McLintock with a copy of 'Celebrities' Favourite Football Teams').
Frank McLintock, Ex-Football Player
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(Photo: Lee Dixon with a copy of 'Celebrities' Favourite Football Teams').
Lee Dixon, Ex-Football Player
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A great set of replies, an entertaining book for any football fan, it’s great to see all of Chris’ royalties are being donated to charity, a very worth while cause. (Photo: Brian Murphy with a copy of 'Celebrities' Favourite Football Teams').
Brian Murphy, Actor
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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.
Jason Marriner, Author of 'It's Only A Game'
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An entertaining read for any football fans, it’s great to see Chris is donating all his royalties to a very worth while cause. (Photo: Jim Bowen with a copy of 'Celebrities' Favourite Football Teams').
Jim Bowen, TV Presenter
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An interesting collection, and compilation of football facts and comments from a myriad of celebrities highlighting their favourite football teams and all-time favourite players. Well presented and written, as usual, by prolific author, Chris Cowlin. And an added bonus to the purchaser, all the royalties to charity. Excellent.
Robert Auty, Author of 'Trance Warriors: The Siege of Scarn'
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(Photo: Judy Cornwall with a copy of 'Celebrities' Favourite Football Teams').
Judy Cornwall, Actress
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(Photo: Stuart Drummond with a copy of 'Celebrities' Favourite Football Teams').
Stuart Drummond, Mayor of Hartlepool
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I was a little disappointed when I read Celebrities Favourite Football Teams. I wasn't in it. Joking aside there is loads of information about the rich and famous and which teams they support. Where does Chris Cowlin get his energy to research the information in his books? Oh and by the way Chris my favourite team is Greenock Morton and Scotland of course. (Photo: Andy Ritchie with a copy of 'Celebrities' Favourite Football Teams').
Andy Ritchie, Ex-footballer & Scottish Footballer of the Year
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Whilst I can't call myself the greatest fan of football, I am an avid celebrity watcher - as are thousands of other like minded people - and I thoroughly enjoyed this book and reading the celebrities' views on their favourite teams. I think other celeb watchers will also be queuing to buy this book! From the football aspect, I would add that my dad used to energetically support Crystal Palace and I myself have always had a soft spot for them too as my old school playing fields virtually backed on to their ground!
Sheila Collins, Author of 'Truffles Diary'
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The whole book is a credit to Chris Cowlin, well done Chris! (Photo: Edwina Currie with a copy of 'Celebrities' Favourite Football Teams').
Edwina Currie, Writer, Broadcaster and Politician
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This book is great, I really enjoyed it, well done Chris!
Fenton Gee, Actor and Recording Artist
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(Photo: Dave Courtney with a copy of 'Celebrities' Favourite Football Teams').
Dave Courtney, Celebrity Gangster & Best Selling Author
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This book is as good as Fulham beating Chelsea 6-0 on a Saturday afternoon! (Photo: Nigel Havers with a copy of 'Celebrities' Favourite Football Teams').
Nigel Havers, Actor
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What an interesting insight into which football teams are favoured by many of our most beloved celebrities. It will happily grace any coffee table - as it does mine! My favourite contribution is Edwina Currie’s advice that Rooney should really learn to control his temper and her relief when the World Cup finished as then everything returned to normal!
Matt Duquenoy, Actor
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(Photo: Bob Wilson with a copy of 'Celebrities' Favourite Football Teams').
Bob Wilson, Ex-Football Player & TV Presenter
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I was very happy to provide a quote for Chris's book, as anyone who knows me will tell you, you don't exactly have to twist my arm for me to talk about my favourite team! (Photos: Liz McClarnon with a copy of 'Celebrities' Favourite Football Teams').
Liz McClarnon, Singer
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I am delighted to write the foreword to this book, compiled by Chris Cowlin. It is great to see how many celebrities have replied to Chris and have given their thoughts about their favourite teams and players. I was particularly pleased to see how many celebrities support Manchester United and how many past players were mentioned, most of all the late George Best.
Well, here are my memories and answers to Chris’ questions:
I had quite a difficult introduction to supporting football clubs, as my Dad was a Celtic fan so when my brother and I were kids my Dad would take us to Celtic games but when we started school it started to change because, being a Protestant school only 100 yards or so from Ibrox Park, everyone supported Rangers. So like the rest of our school chums, we supported Rangers.
This was in the late forties and at that time they had some great players – George Young, Willie Woodburn, Sammy Cox, Willie Waddell and Willie Thornton. My hero was Willie Woodburn who was later suspended Sine Dir for life. I always remember one memorable game at Ibrox when they played Clyde and it turned out a real Donnybrook and three players were sent off – Willie Woodburn and Billy Simpson from Rangers and Albert Murphy from Clyde. Rumour had it at the time that there was a feud between Simpson of Rangers who was from Belfast and Murphy of Clyde who was from Dublin, such was the religious feeling in the West of Scotland at that time.
I always remember after that game I was waiting outside the stadium trying to get autographs from my heroes and approached Sammy Cox, who was talking to his brother I think, and he was swearing like a trooper, calling the referee for everything. I was absolutely shocked and when I got home told my father I had heard Sammy Cox swearing. You see, even then we didn’t expect our heroes to be anything but Gods, and it hasn’t changed today.
When I got to be about nine or ten, I started to diversify in terms of watching football and whn Rangers were away from home I would go to watch my local junior team, which at the time was equivalent to the conference league in England. They were called Benburb FC, affectionately known as the Bens or the “Chooky Hens” in Govan Doric language. I absolutely loved them and to this day I get their match programme sent to me every week. It was great fun listening to the old pensioners stationed around the railings at the front of the terracing, giving vent to the players and referees and particularly the poor linesman. I don’t know how many times a walking stick hit the backside of one of the linesmen if he gave a bad decision or tried to trip him up as he was running up the line. Those old guys loved their football team!
My heroes of that team were Nicholson, the centre half, and the two wingers Dunky Rae and Tommy Douglas. As the years wore on and I got to 16 I used to train with the Bens along with some other promising boys from the local school, Govan High Secondary. There were six of us and every one of them became senior players. The McKinnon twins Ronnie and Donnie – Ronnie signed for Rangers at 17 and played for about 12 years as their regular centre half, and also for Scotland. His brother, Donnie played for Partick Thistle and then became a physiotherapist with the Scotland under 21 eleven. My own brother, Martin, went on to play for Partick Thistle, Morton, Barnsley and Doncaster Rovers. The other two, Jim Morrison played for Clyde and Craig Watson played for Rangers for a spell and then Morton and Falkirk.
The irony of this story is there had been a change in the team committee of Benburb FC and new people came in to turn round the fortunes of the Club and called all of us into an office at the Ground to tell us that we had no future at Benburb FC and he was stopping us training with them. He was going to rely on experience – well he knew his football!
I’ll always remember that moment as we all came out of the ground together and we stood outside, a bit lost as one of us said “What are we going to do?” Ronnie McKinnon then flippantly joked “I’m ready to play for Rangers”. Well, it didn’t turn out a joke as Ronnie then signed for a junior team from outside Glasgow called Dunipace. He was only there four months when Rangers did sign him, which just shows you how thin the dividing line is with success and failure.
These memories will always stay with me and to think I later went on to play for my boyhood heroes Rangers, where from the main stand, you could look into my mother’s window. I suppose the real message is that you should never lose hope or give in, to keep persevering in what you believe in and want to be will help you to get there.
It is great that Chris Cowlin has decided to donate all his royalties to ‘The Willow Foundation’ charity which is a great cause. Bob & Megs Wilson founded the Willow Foundation in memory of their daughter, Anna who died of cancer aged 31. It is a registered charity dedicated to improving the quality of life of seriously ill young adults aged 16 to 40 throughout the UK, by organising and funding a ‘Special Day’ of their choice.
I hope you like looking through the book, enjoy!
Sir Alex Ferguson CBE, Football Manager - Written the Foreword
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On behalf of all the seriously ill young adults who will benefit from the donations of Chris Cowlin and Apex Publishing Ltd, thank you both very much for your continued generous support.
David Williams, The Willow Foundation (Chief Executive)
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A good book, very unusual, should be a winner in the soccer world. I've never read a book like it - food for thought!
Charles Bronson, Famous Prisoner & Author
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Bruce Forsyth says he supports Spurs AND Arsenal - shocking! (Photo: Matthew Reynolds with a copy of 'Celebrities' Favourite Football Teams').
Matthew Reynolds, Actor
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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.
Ron Stirling, Actor
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This is a really entertaining read! Chris has managed to collect together an amazingly diverse and impressive range of people - I was very flattered to be approached, and am thrilled to have my contribution in print alongside such names as Sir Ranulph Fiennes, Glenda Jackson and Gary Lineker. The Willow Foundation is a wonderful charity and it's terrific that Chris has taken on such a project to help support their work.
Jack Bennett, Actor
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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.
Glenn Harold, Best Selling Author & UK Hypnotherapist
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An excellent book by respected author Chris Cowlin.
Mike Hallowell, Author
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Have you ever seen a celebrity, film star, rock star, at a football match and wondered which team they supported. It is something all of us must have done at some time or another. But Chris Cowlin has now produced a book that lists almost every VIP together with a comment about their favourite football team and players, past and present. I, for one, was amazed to see just how many stars supported my team. You'll be dazzled too, to find out which stars follow your favourites and other teams up and down the land. It also has a great foreword from Sir Alex Ferguson. Get a copy of this great book, it is sure to become a collector's item too.
Philip Solomon, Author of 'Guided by the Light' and 'The Official Wolves Quiz Book'
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I really enjoyed the chance to talk about my local and family team, my beloved QPR as we don’t get much exposure or anything to write about. I was also really interested in reading others favourite teams especially those who were famous for playing for a certain club but supported another!
Telling the world about the pure genius of mavericks like Rodney Marsh, Stan Bowles and of course my Dad’s own cousin Tony Currie. Alas, the greatest player that EVER LIVED was not a QPR player - Georgie Best. A fantastic book!
Tel Currie, Author of 'Left Hooks and Dangerous Crooks' and 'Ronnie Biggs: The Inside Story'
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A unique compilation from a wonderful variety of well known faces from all aspects of life, and all for charity - superb!
Jim Dawkins, Author of 'The Loose Screw' and 'The British Crime and Prison Quiz Book'
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-- Newspaper and Website Reviews
CELEBRITIES' FAVOURITE FOOTBALL TEAMS
Christian Market Place Magazine
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CELEBRITIES' FAVOURITE FOOTBALL TEAMS
Tottenham, Wood Green and Edmonton Journal
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CELEBRITIES' FAVOURITE FOOTBALL TEAMS
Islington Gazette
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CELEBRITIES' FAVOURITE FOOTBALL TEAMS
Muswell Hill Journal
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CELEBRITIES' FAVOURITE FOOTBALL TEAMS
Great Bentley Parish News
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Very enjoyable reading!
Ashleigh Rose, KiCK! Magazine
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A WORD ON THE GREAT GAME
Kentish Saturday Observer
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A nice stocking filler for Christmas!
Sheree Earnshaw, Living Tenerife Magazine (Books Editor)
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CELEBRITIES' TOP TEAMS IN NEW BOOK
Colchester Gazette
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WHO SUPPORTS WHO?
On The Ball: Official Matchday Programme of Norwich City Football Club
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WHO DO THEY SUPPORT?
East Anglian Daily Times
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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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CELEBRITIES' FAVOURITE FOOTBALL TEAMS
Cambridge Style Man Magazine
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CELEBRITIES' FAVOURITE FOOTBALL TEAMS
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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CELEBRITIES' TOP TEAMS IN NEW BOOK
Coast Gazette
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CELEBRITIES' FAVOURITE FOOTBALL TEAMS
World Soccer: The essential football magazine
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WHICH ONE IS YOUR FAVOURITE?
Clacton Gazette
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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.
www.hypnosisaudio.com
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CELEBRITIES' FAVOURITE FOOTBALL TEAMS
David Powter, Winger Magazine
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CHRIS'S BOOK ON MOBILE PHONES
Clacton Gazette
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CELEBRITIES' FAVOURITE FOOTBALL TEAMS
Shoot Magazine
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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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CELEBRITIES' FAVOURITE FOOTBALL TEAMS
Camden Gazette
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CELEBRITIES' FAVOURITE FOOTBALL TEAMS Compiled by Chris Cowlin.
Inside Time: The National Monthly Newspaper for Prisoners
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COMPETITION: CELEBRITIES' FAVOURITE FOOTBALL TEAMS
More Than 90 Mins.
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STOCKING FILLERS
Welsh Football Magazine
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CELEBRITIES' FAVOURITE FOOTBALL TEAMS
Wolverhampton Express & Star
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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 http://www.apexpublishing.co.uk
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CELEBRITIES' FAVOURITE FOOTBALL TEAMS
Hornsey Journal
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AUTHOR'S BOOK DEAL FOR PHONES
Coast Gazette
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READ ALL ABOUT IT!
U's Review: The Official Matchday Magazine of Colchester United Football Club
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CELEBRITIES' FAVOURITE FOOTBALL TEAMS
Living Tenerife Magazine
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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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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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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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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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CELEBRITIES' FAVOURITE FOOTBALL TEAMS
The Paper (Tenerife Newspaper)
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CELEBRITIES' FAVOURITE FOOTBALL TEAMS
www.cu-fc.premiumtv.co.uk
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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
The Canary Magazine
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SOCCER GREATS
The Willow: News from the Willow Foundation
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CELEBRITIES' FAVOURITE FOOTBALL TEAMS
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 http://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.
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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.
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A fun read! Not only do you get a good read, but you're also donating to a good cause.
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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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A great read, great fun and great value.
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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?
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An excellent book by respected author Chris Cowlin.
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Sporting heroes of the stars revealed... a really fascinating insight!
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* Millionaire quiz show 'cheat' Charles Ingram's Leeds United 'final answer' as lifelong fan gives promotion verdict
* The man at the centre of the coughing scandal is a fully paid up Leeds United fan
The story of Charles Ingram, the former Army Major who was found guilty of cheating on the ITV quiz show Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?, has come back to the fore this week following the broadcast of ITV dramatisation Quiz.
Charles and his wife Diana were convicted in 2003 of conning their way to a £1million prize in what was known as the 'coughing Major' case.
Millions tuned in to the three-part mini-series which starred Matthew Macfadyen as Charles and Damned United star Michael Sheen as Chris Tarrent.
Ingram himself praised the show for being 'terrifyingly accurate' on Twitter, but one aspect that the series did not explore was his long-standing Leeds United fandom.
"I have supported Leeds United through their ups and downs all my life, that's from 1963," he states in Chris Cowlin's 'Celebrities' Favourite Football Teams' book.
"My favourite all-time Leeds United player is Billy Bremner. There are many others who must be mentioned, including Peter Lorimer, Norman Hunter, Jack Charlton, Allan Clarke, Johnny GIles, Eddie Gray, Paul Madeley, Gary McAllister, Gordon Strachan, Nigel Martyn, David Batty and even Eric Cantona and Rio Ferdinand before they left for Man United. They, and many more, are legends."
Charles also regularly takes to Twitter to discuss the Whites' fortunes, proudly stating on his bio that he is fan of the Whites.
His first Leeds game was at Derby County's Baseball Groud right in the middle of the Don Revie's golden age, but it's clear that he has stuck with the Whites through thick and thin.
And he's also given his verdict on the current season, insisting that the campaign must be completed and that Leeds will finish top - as long as they take their chances.
"Automatic yes, top maybe IF we take chances," he replied on Twitter when asked if Marcelo Bielsa's men will get the job done.
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-- Radio and TV
Have you ever seen a celebrity, film star, rock star, at a football match and wondered which team they supported. It is something all of us must have done at some time or another. But Chris Cowlin has now produced a book that lists almost every VIP together with a comment about their favourite football team and players, past and present. I, for one, was amazed to see just how many stars supported my team. You'll be dazzled too, to find out which stars follow your favourites and other teams up and down the land. It also has a great foreword from Sir Alex Ferguson. Get a copy of this great book, it is sure to become a collector's item too.
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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.
Setanta Sports
My most favourite of Chris' books has to be 'Celebrities' Favourite Football Teams'. Maybe this is because it’s got something to do with the obsessions we have with celebrities and finding out that some of them are actually normal everyday people. It was a fantastic read and I noticed the comedian Shazia Mirza is a Villa fan. I knew she was funny but that’s a great joke! And Ray Liotta - Spurs, makes me wonder how did that ever come by?
Jhangir Ahmed, BBC Radio Sheffield 88.6 FM (Reporter)
A fascinating insight into celebrities and not only their passion for football, but where their real priorities lie!
Be prepared to be shocked by some of the revelations in this book, and get ready to surprise your friends with this handy "Pub Debate" winner.
Luke Wilkins, Ocean FM (Presenter)
The essential guide to the colours of the great and the good. Well researched.
Mark Jacques, BBC (Writer and Broadcaster)
The Geoff Hillyer Show run a competition and featured the book over three days.
SGR Colchester 96.1 FM
If you want to know which celebs follow your team, read this. Great to see Colchester United gets a mention!
Geoff Hillyer, SGR Colchester 96.1 FM (Presenter)
Colchester Garrison 107 FM reviewed 'The Ultimate Football Quiz Book' compiled by John DT White, 'The England Quiz Book' compiled by Adam Pearson and 'Celebrities' Favourite Football Teams' compiled by Chris Cowlin on 'The Danny Lawrence Breakfast Show', they also gave copies of the books away in a radio competition.
Colchester Garrison 107 FM
Radio Forth 97.3 FM reviewed 'Celebrities' Favourite Football Teams' compiled by Chris Cowlin on 'The Super Scoreboard Programme', they also gave copies of the books away in a radio competition.
Radio Forth 97.3 FM
Chris Cowlin was interviewed on 'The Philip Solomon Show'. Chris and Philip talked about 'Celebrities' Favourite Football Teams' as well as his quiz books.
Wolverhampton City Radio 101.8FM
Chris Cowlin has scored again – now next time you bump into one of these famous faces on the train you’ll never be stuck for conversation!
Stephen Lee, Anglia Television (Presenter)
This book is the ultimate armchair companion to practically every sporting enthusiast.
Curtiss Adamiec, Afan 107.9 FM (Presenter)
Radio Broadland 102.4 FM auctioned a signed copy of Chris Cowlin's book 'Celebrities' Favourite Football Teams', all proceeds were donated to local charities.
Radio Broadland 102.4 FM
This book is wicked!
Marcus Simpson, Radio Cardiff 98.7 FM (Presenter)
'Celebrities' Favourite Football Teams' was reviewed on Radio Cardiff 98.7 FM on the 'Marcus Simpson Show'.
Radio Cardiff 98.7 FM
Afan 107.9 FM featured and run a competition on 'Celebrities' Favourite Football Teams'.
Afan 107.9 FM
3 copies were given away in a competition on 'The Glenn Speller Show'.
BBC Radio Essex 103.5 & 95.3 FM
Celebrities' Favourite Football Teams was featured (and a competition run) on Swansea Bay Radio 102.1 FM, on 'The Jay Curtis Show'.
Swansea Bay Radio 102.1 FM
The book is excellent!
Steve Dixon, Sky News (Presenter)
Manchester United Television featured and ran a competition on 'Celebrities' Favourite Football Teams'.
MUTV (Manchester United Television)
8 September 2010 - Chris Cowlin was interviewed on Leith 98.8 FM. Chris answered questions about his book 'Celebrities' Favourite Football Teams'.
Leith 98.8 FM
Wyvern 96.7 FM featured 'Celebrities' Favourite Football Teams' compiled by Chris Cowlin. They also gave five signed copies away in a radio competition.
Wyvern 96.7 FM