My New Liverpool FC Book Preorder – An Updated/Re-Written "Dynasty" Special Edition
Aka 'Dynasty Redux (Deluxe)'
Next year, 2024, marks the 65th anniversary of Bill Shankly arriving at Liverpool FC, to revive a sleeping giant; and it's also now 15 years since I wrote "Dynasty: Fifty Years Of Shankly's Liverpool", my fairly unique LFC history book.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5872167-dynasty
I've long wanted to do an update of the book, but instead I have decided to do a rewrite-update, with new analysis added to the previous sections, much of which will be re-written with the extra knowledge gained in the past decade and a half; and obviously, picking up from 2008, the new chapters on the final two years of Rafa Benítez's reign, the brief Roy Hodgson debacle, Brendan Rodgers' highs and lows, and so far, eight great years of Jürgen Klopp.
So much has happened since 2008 that it could be a book in and of itself.
I also wanted to include the insights of some of our loyal subscribers, the oldest of whom saw the players from the 1950s and '60s, and for subscribers to contribute to a hive mind approach to the analyses, with the TTT staff – most of whom I got to know in 2009 when TTT launched – also helping on research.
"Dynasty" was actually one the books that John W Henry told me he bought on Amazon in 2010 (when researching the club, about which he knew nothing at that point) before going ahead and buying Liverpool FC, so it may have played a part in actually changing history, too.
(Sorry to any #FSGOuters for that. You can hand back the league title, the Champions League crown and other finals and +90-point finishes, the various domestic and continental cups. Let’s go back to the time of Paul Konchesky and Roy Hodgson, and take it from there.)
After publishing a dozen or so up to this point, this should be my final Liverpool FC book, barring any miraculous seasons worth writing about; albeit major trophies seem to mostly be bought by sportswashers these days, leaving less room for honestly-run clubs to succeed.
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