Things to read while waiting for the UPS man to throw Ape’s book at your face. For those of you looking for a bit of summer reading I’d like to wholeheartedly recommend checking out Stephen Rea’s Finn McCool’s Football Club: The Birth, Death, and Resurrection of a Pub Soccer Team in the City of the Dead. Good title. Lofty title. In all seriousness this is the true story of a New Orleans pub and its soccer team before, during, and after Hurricane Katrina told by Rea, a Northern Irish expat (and Chelsea fan). Even if soccer and hurricanes aren’t your thing you’re still likely to enjoy the hell out of this book because Rea has a great story to tell. [Amazon]
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August 7th, 2009 at 10:46 am
are you sure it won’t make me gay?
August 7th, 2009 at 10:50 am
There’s no secret junk in this book is there? Cause that was pretty gay.
August 7th, 2009 at 10:51 am
All 63 Amazon reviews give it 5 starts. Really?!
August 7th, 2009 at 10:54 am
Excerpt from the book: ” I was barely grazed on the shin by the opponent, but I thought I would fall to the ground and writhe in agony until they brought the stretcher out and then I popped up like nothing happened…but i got my team a free kick so it was all good.”
August 7th, 2009 at 11:04 am
No, I’m pretty sure that everything about soccer makes you gay.
August 7th, 2009 at 11:09 am
@ stealofthedraft: stars, dumbass
August 7th, 2009 at 11:13 am
Actually it’s more about the people at Finn McCool’s (great pub btw) than it is about the soccer. It’s about the folks living on their rooftops trying to put their lives back together.
Extremely lofty book
/dick joke
August 7th, 2009 at 11:17 am
I have to save up to buy Ape’s book, so I’ll pass. Plus, I’m not gay.
August 7th, 2009 at 11:17 am
Speaking of my book
DAMN YOU, AMAZON!
August 7th, 2009 at 11:18 am
Yes, it’s not really a book about soccer, that’s just a frame for the story.
August 7th, 2009 at 11:23 am
Ape – how great would it be if AMAZON.com linked your book with a “Customers Also Bought” with multiple porn novels.
August 7th, 2009 at 11:38 am
“Reading a book about soccer will not make you gay”
I’ll need to check with my doctor, just to be sure.
August 7th, 2009 at 11:41 am
Potential AMAZON links to Ape’s book as determined by purchases from KSK readers:
How to Get Her to Watch Porn, Have Anal Sex, and Call Her Best Friend for a Threesome – What it Takes to Build a Trusting (and Fun) Sexual Relationship
Anal Fisting With My Girlfriend
Fisting: Care, Responsibility and Trust
The Anarchist Cookbook
The Soccer Field Is Empty (Gay Youth Chronicles)
Shaundra: The Savage She-Male
August 7th, 2009 at 11:53 am
Yeah, yeah, do that.
/will takes sales any way he can get them
August 7th, 2009 at 12:18 pm
“Even if soccer and hurricanes aren’t your thing you’re still likely to enjoy the hell out of this book because Rea has a great story to tell.”
soooo, even if gay cowboy buttsex and dusty ranges aren’t my thing will I still enjoy Brokeback Mountain?
I think not thank you very much
August 7th, 2009 at 12:22 pm
Things to read while waiting for the UPS man to throw Ape’s book at your face.
“What’s a little boy like you doing with big boy smut like this?”
August 7th, 2009 at 12:51 pm
soooo, even if gay cowboy buttsex and dusty ranges aren’t my thing will I still enjoy Brokeback Mountain?
Actually, yeah.
August 7th, 2009 at 3:01 pm
Reading books about Chelsea fans, on the other hand, WILL make you gay.
/socflawa
August 7th, 2009 at 3:03 pm
Stephen Rea left Belfast, Northern Ireland for New Orleans, so all the urban squalor and violence, plus the part about getting fucked over by a government that doesn’t care about you must be old hat to him.
August 7th, 2009 at 3:25 pm
Fuck Chelski.
August 7th, 2009 at 3:57 pm
Those who claim soccer is gay are gay themselves. And so are all Chelsea supporters.
August 7th, 2009 at 4:32 pm
Those who claim soccer is gay are gay themselves.
They’d love Crissy Ronaldo then.
And so are all Chelsea supporters.
This is true. Bashing another guy’s face in = hidden desire for male buttsecks.
August 7th, 2009 at 4:40 pm
I can’t wait when the Blues win it all this year.
If you have no interest in reading the book, don’t whine and bitch. It’s the world’s game, and I follow both types of football with equal passion (go Panthers, although Delhomme needs to man the fuck up.)
August 7th, 2009 at 5:41 pm
My government health care provider said that a dixie-crat congressman from Mississippi guarentees me that reading a book where soccer is the frame will make me gay. Smooth move, Ape.
August 8th, 2009 at 8:35 am
Customers who bought this book also bought … methamphetamine.
August 13th, 2009 at 5:32 pm
This is a great book to read.
And the only gay fans of soccer are the Chelsea’s fans. All the fans of other soccer team are straight.