Manchester United Ruined My Wife
Publisher: Know The Score Books; Pitch Publishing (Brighton) Limited
Published: August 1st 2008
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9781903158524
Subjects: Biography: general; Soccer (Association football)
First sentence: "How can a man love one woman when he's in love with eleven men?"
Description: When people get married it is "till death do us part", but when you fall truly, madly, deeply in love with your football team there is no divorce, you do not stray. Your team is the one constant, consistent, permanent, overwhelming obsession in your life.

Rarely has a book been written that so painfully yet humorously conveys the all-consuming, red hot passion, joy and despair felt by the vast majority of football fans. With highs so intense it reduces sex to mere skin rubbing, David Blatt leaves wives and girlfriends in their rightful place on the substitutes bench as he takes the reader on a journey through his United watching adventures, from the tragedy of Munich to the triumph of Moscow via the 1968 European Cup Final at Wembley, relegation, promotion, the wilderness years of the 70s & 80s, Rotterdam, a first league title in 26 years and the glorious 1999 treble culminating in that unforgettable night in Barcelona. Then onto the protracted sale to the Glazers, the rise and rise of FC United of Manchester and, finally, the double whammy of United's 17th league title and the agony and ecstasy of Russian penalty roulette in Moscow.

It's a tale that millions of so-called "ordinary" football fans can relate to. After all, how can kissing girls compete with getting up at 05.00am for a 400 mile round trip to home games?
Table of contents: title: Forward by Sir Alex Ferguson/Int-red-uction/"O" - My very first time/From Boy to Manchester/Scarf Ace/Keystone Cockney Reds/Real Madrid Got Away/Wembley, May 26th 1968/Busby Out?/Between a Rock and a Hard cafe/Belgium Waffling/Pictures in the Second Division/Close Encounters of the Turd Kind/All Things Brighton Beautiful/Europe, Europe, Here We Come/Barca/Juve '84/Fit for a King/The Wizard of OT/Lost and Found in France/I Told 'em, Oldham/Semi-Finals Anonymous/Rupert Murdoch - My Part in his Downfall/To the Red Devil - a Daughter/1999/In the Merry Merry Month of May/Yorkshire Puddings/What I Did on my Holidays/Barcelona Revisited/Europe, Europe, After Barca/Wise Before the Event/Love United, Hate....../Songs at my Funeral/You Love United More Than Me/We've Won it 10/17 Times/Manchester>Moscow/Moscow>Manchester/The Ron Decision/United is Better Than Sex