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Jonny Brick on former player Eamon Dunphy’s football diary

Another football book that earned rave reviews is a diary written by professional footballer Eamon Dunphy. Jonny Brick summarises this durable classic.

Another football book that earned rave reviews is a diary written by professional footballer Eamon Dunphy. Jonny Brick summarises this durable classic.

Up for it: Eamon Dunphy, left, playing for Millwall against Middlesbrough in 1968

Harry Pearson, whose book The Far Corner has also featured in this series on football literature, told me that Eamon Dunphy’s Only A Game? documented ‘miserable working-class life’.
Dunphy claims it is ‘a joyful life, but a very hard one’; across 150 pages, there is very little joy.
The book is dedicated to ‘the good pro’, whom Irishman Dunphy, now 80, descri...

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