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FAMILY TIES: Jonny Brick profiles Michael Calvin book Family

Jonny Brick profiles a book by his fellow Watford-born writer Michael Calvin, though it centres on the latter’s adopted team Millwall.

Jonny Brick profiles a book by his fellow Watford-born writer Michael Calvin, though it centres on the latter's adopted team Millwall.

Party time: Millwall savour promotion from League One at Wembley in 2010

MICHAEL Calvin’s book Family, which came out in 2010 is, by any objective measurement, one of the ten best books ever written about football.

That’s probably because it’s not really about the game, but about community, masculinity and the joy of being embedded within ‘a group of working men bound by the challenge of collective achievement’ as well as ‘the humanity football is in dan...

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