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I'll also suggest Inverting the Pyramid and Soccernomics. Both are good reads.

The Secret Footballer's books are light and fun, if a little repetitive and a bit of a tease. I've found that he's always suggesting that he's going to reveal more than he ends up revealing, especially in the more recent books.

Das Reboot covers the recent history of German football and has some interesting stuff about Klopp in it.

And The Sun Shines Now is an excellent dive into the changes in English football post-Hillsborough, including looks at the media landscape and some investigation of German football as an alternative model for how clubs could be structured and relate to their supporters. It's a bit dry sometimes, but it's very, very good.

Far Foreign Land is about the 2005 Champions League final (and getting there), but it also covers Rome, Heysel, and Hillsborough. I think the long form really suits Tony Evans's writing style.

If you like oral history, check out Simon Hughes's books. I've only read Ring of Fire and Red Machine, but some of the interviews are top notch. Personally, I found the less famous players were usually more interesting than the more famous players.

Red Men is a stellar history of the club, particularly if you want to get familiar with LFC before Shankly.

Finally, if you like Inverting the Pyramid, you might find Talking Tactics interesting, too. I really liked it, but I'm not entirely sure that I got as much out of it as others might — it's kind of dense and dry.

This is an eternal one. There is no guaranteed "good way" as it is a still a matter of discussion how to approach a "matter of football" to be able to fully (or at least as good as possible) understand it.

For day to day performances, you can always follow services that even scouts use (like Opta, even FM and stuff) or free online sites like Squawka. However, I highly recommend to apporach them critically and with hindsight. It never tells a full story. Full story is watching the match, several times in a best way, not that almost anyone who is not paid for it, does.

Even though, you need to see what you are looking at. I think it is ideal, as in any research, to collect all sources. There is a great literature about a history and development of tactics (eg. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Inverting-Pyramid-History-Football-Tactics/dp/1409128644) or you can just follow some websities dedicated to it like http://www.zonalmarking.net.

It is midnight and I am sitting alone laughing. Never thought of that connotation. I should probably be more clear next time.

From Steve Peter's book listing

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Simon Hughes' Red Machine, Men In White Suits, and Ring Of Fire are all interesting and great books.

Jonathan Wilson's The Anatomy of Liverpool was a very good read. Of course, Wilson is best known for Inverting The Pyramid, which is a staple football book.

I also enjoyed David Goldblatt's The Game of Our Lives, which chronicles the Premier League from it's birth to roughly 2014-15 I believe (at least in the paperback edition).

44 Years With The Same Bird by Brian Read is generally excellent I thought. Gives you an insight in to the relationship between a fan and the club over what was an insanely successful period. It speaks to how being a football supporter can touch every part of your life.

It's very well written. I ploughed through it in no time. Amazon link here:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/44-Years-Same-Bird-Liverpudlian/dp/0330474251/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1525947914&sr=8-1&keywords=with+the+same+bird

Hey. I bought that This Is Anfield poster. http://i.imgur.com/hzazmZI.jpg here it is in size. The frame is pretty top notch to be honest. Pretty sure you can find a non-framed version on Amazon.

Where from? I'm a big fan of funky looking keys and key covers but I would LOVE something like this.

EDIT: You can get key blanks from the internet. Here is one that I've been looking at for a while. Here it is for our American cousins.

Red Men by John Williams is pretty great. Has such a good level of detail and research. Goes through the full LFC history.

Here it is on Amazon.

My recommendation on top of what everyone else has said is to get Kenny's book "My Liverpool Home" for an excellent overview from the perspective of the man himself. You will learn about the history that existed before he came and the monumental occasions that occurred after he joined. That will give you a great modern perspective of what Reds fans have gone through in the past few decades.

An Epic Swindle is the best book on the ownership and direction of Liverpool under our former American owners Hicks & Gilette. An excellent read, and honestly very important in terms of setting the stage for FSG's tenure - elements of the H&G reign are still affecting Liverpool as a club today, and part of what made last season's title challenge so special was that it came less than 4 years after we almost went into administration.

The Anatomy of Liverpool is one I'm reading at the moment. Written by The Guardian's Jonathan Wilson, author of another highly recommended football book called Inverting The Pyramid (a history of football tactics), The Anatomy of Liverpool picks out 10 matches in the club's history and uses them as the basis to discuss that era of the club - the players, the manager, the seasons, the direction of the club, let alone that match itself. Bear in mind that both this book and Inverting The Pyramid can occasionally be very dry reads, but worth persevering with!

And then, of course, LFC players' autobiographies. There's also Pepe Reina's autobiography, in addition to the ones on that list, which also has some insights about the club under Rafa & Hicks & Gilette

https://www.amazon.com/Red-Machine-Liverpool-Players-Stories/dp/1780576919/ref=sr_1_8?ie=UTF8&qid=1537484130&sr=8-8&keywords=liverpool+fc+books

https://www.amazon.com/Liverpool-FC-Seven-Year-Liverpools-Championship-ebook/dp/B00ARHX99A/ref=sr_1_33?ie=UTF8&qid=1537484225&sr=8-33&keywords=liverpool+fc+books

https://www.amazon.com/Bill-Shankly-Much-Important-Biography-ebook/dp/B0050OM414/ref=sr_1_58?ie=UTF8&qid=1537484289&sr=8-58&keywords=liverpool+fc+books

https://www.amazon.com/44-Years-Same-Bird-Liverpudlian-ebook/dp/B004GKLXPQ/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1537484502&sr=8-2-fkmr1&keywords=liverpool+fc+books+with+the+same+bird

These are the ones that I recommend, enjoy

An Epic Swindle:44 Months with a Pair of Cowboys is worth a read after you've caught up with all the great history. Same author as 44 years With the Same Bird shows lifelong fan's perspective of the Gilette/Hicks years. Not quite what you asked for but interesting nonetheless.

The best footy book by miles is "44 years with the same bird" (the liver bird) by mirror columnist Brian reade. All about growing up watching us, how he got into it, how shankly sorted him a ticket after he wrote to him about his gettin robbed, its got everything.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0330474251/ref=mp_s_a_1?qid=1367746927&sr=8-1&pi=SL75

This Is Anfield poster is super cheap on Amazon. http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B001X36A8O?pc_redir=1414479729&robot_redir=1

An Epic Swindle

I definitely recommend it!

You matter and you deserve to be happy. This book https://www.amazon.com/Learned-Optimism-Change-Your-Mind/dp/1400078393 changed my entire outlook. It also provides a lot of incredible insight into how pessimism creates depression and how optimism can ABSOLUTELY be learned and used to get you out of that state.


I totally get the who the fuck is this random dude on r/liverpool reaction. I'm nobody, I'm not a doctor, just a regular guy who has dealt with some shit as well. This book changed me and I hope you give it the chance to do the same for you.


Stay strong

I would recommend Here we go gathering cups in may its the stories of cup finals and away days from fans perspectives, it really gives the feel as to what it was like to follow Liverpool in the 70s and 80s. For recent history I would suggest An epic swindle. The inside story of Hicks and Gillette with loads of details about what was happening behind closed doors within the club.

Not too sure sorry. I just got it onto the wall the talent in creating it is with these - http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B006HTRA60?pc_redir=1406642649&robot_redir=1

Great summary. I can thoroughly recommend An Epic Swindle: 44 Months with a Pair of Cowboys for anyone wanting a bit more insight into this.

This is the correct answer. It's also why we have the terms full-back and why centre backs are sometimes referred to as centre-halves (they used to be the central half-backs). It's also where the inside-forward comes from (8 and 10 being the inside-right and inside-left).

There's a very informative book called Inverting The Pyramid which is a history of tactics and includes this information. The Pyramid was what the old 2-3-5 formation was called.

For those of you that haven't, you need to read this. It gives you a really good insight in to how H&G ran the club

https://www.amazon.com/Here-Gathering-Cups-May-Liverpool/dp/1847671675

That one is great but now it needs an update!

• Red Men: Liverpool Football Club The Biography - by John Williams
  
  This is a very good read. It does not concentrate solely on Shankly's Liverpool as many other books do. The author recounts the story of the city, the people of Liverpool, and LFC - not just the glory years. It is not the the most current, but it does deliver a chronicle of LFC up to the Hodgson era.

I take it you have not been Liverpool FC supporter for long.

Just Google Liverpool FC Bankruptcy. I would also highly recommend reading Liverpool FC An Epic Swindle by Brain Reade

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Epic-Swindle-Months-Pair-Cowboys/dp/085738600X

You can order it here for 7 dollars

https://www.amazon.com/Red-Men-Liverpool-Football-Biography/dp/1845967100