MONBALL is coming…
Writing books for me is getting harder. For no other reasons than. my eyes are not what they used to be (partly from staring at screen for so long) wondering if anyone still reads books and the whole climate around anything in public has gone completely mad.
I started this book in April 2024, literally a day after I finished On Robert Kelly’s Doorstep. It was probably too soon and I’ve had strikes and gutters with it but I can see the finish line at last.
I think this will be the last book I do in this genre (whatever the fuck this genre is) because it takes it out of you and nowadays you’ve got more chance of someone stalking you than praising you. (I’ve never done anything for praise but increasingly people will weaponise apathy if they didn’t play a part in whatever it is you’ve done)
This book is the sequel to The Asterisk Years and about the industrial scale cheating Rangers did through their use of the Employee Benefit Trust that ran parallel to their inexhaustible overdraft from the Bank of Scotland as seen through the prism of the Martin O’Neill years at Celtic. (It’s not seen through the eyes of fans from any other clubs because, let’s face, they did sod all at the time to help and it’s not a Moneyball figures type book even though there is a pun in the title)
What I have increasingly tried to do with these books is make them palatable and entertaining for the reader so it doesn’t feel like you’re being lectured or being sent to sleep with a shopping list style of writing.
It is also designed to hit back at the recent media blitz from David Murray and his shallow recent book and the journalists who, even after 14 years, cannot bring themselves to criticise or blame him.
It’s also for diehard Celtic supporters. I make no attempt to explain things around certain games, goals and glory as if you’re new to the thing, I make the assumption that if you’ve picked up the book, then you know what I am taking about.
The intention after this is to do a film, again the last film in this genre, next year. I think five books that then become films is enough.
There is new stuff in it, new revelations and all that but that’s for you to discover. One thing you won’t discover is a new me: I’m still the same muthafucka that I ever was.
Whether you like it or not:
MONBALL Celtic versus The (D)EBT Rangers will be available to pre order (signed) from the end of the month and on general release from October 31st.
