[Football] Brian Glanville RIP

[Gwylan]

Sad to see that one of the greatest of football journalists has died: only Hugh McIlvanney was in the same league. Growing up, Glanville was compulsive reading. He also wrote the script for Goal, the 1966 World Cup film.

He was 93 and still writing up to a few years ago. What a life

Grr. Autocorrect changed the title to Granville. Can't fix

 

[Guinness Boy]

Sad to see that one of the greatest of football journalists has died: only Hugh McIlvanney was in the same league. Growing up, Glanville was compulsive reading. He also wrote the script for Goal, the 1966 World Cup film.

He was 93 and still writing up to a few years ago. What a life

Grr. Autocorrect changed the title to Granville. Can't fix

I’ve fixed it for you.

Sad about this and agree with your assessment. I was reading Glanville and McIlvanney in my teens and they were both brilliant writers.

 

[wolfie]

I’ve fixed it for you.

Sad about this and agree with your assessment. I was reading Glanville and McIlvanney in my teens and they were both brilliant writers.

Me too. Totally agree.

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

My favourite ever pundit. He appeared on BSB's Italian football coverage and I was hooked. So articulate and intelligent.
RIP.

 

[Theatre of Trees]

His 'History of the World Cup' is the best book on the subject by a mile.

 

[Invicta]

Loved this book when I was a kid.

 

[Mancgull]

Loved this book when I was a kid.

Brilliant book.

 

[SouthSaxon]

Loved this book when I was a kid.

I remember that cover and wondering who the keeper was!

 

[Not Andy Naylor]

I was lucky enough to know the great man as a colleague and friend - and teammate in his Holland Park kickabouts.

One thing that hasn't been mentioned in any of the eulogies: he HATED Palace. He'd do almost anything to avoid reporting at Selhurst. I won't say what he always called them, but the second word wasn't Palace.

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

Indeed he was a good thing!

 

[ROSM]

I met him a few times in the early 90s at various Wembley matches. He was a legend and when he spoke he held the same aura as how he wrote

 

[Albion my Albion]

Brian Glanville was fearless, witty and hovered in the press box like Banquo’s ghost

Brian Glanville, who has died aged 93, loved football but detested much about the modern game

www.theguardian.com

Brian Glanville was fearless, witty and hovered in the press box like Banquo’s ghost​

Nobody swore so elegantly as Glanville, who hovered in the press box like Banquo’s ghost, the gathering’s invisible conscience, ready to deliver a scathing observation, relayed, sotto voce, to a nearby colleague like a chorus baritone in one of his favourite operas.

Sitting behind me in the Tottenham press box during one match, he leaned forward to remark – apropos bugger all – on the future of the then struggling young Sunday Correspondent: “It has the smell of death about it.” Garth Crooks, who was sitting next to him, was as bemused as he was amused.

 

[Not Andy Naylor]

Brian Glanville was fearless, witty and hovered in the press box like Banquo’s ghost

Brian Glanville, who has died aged 93, loved football but detested much about the modern game

www.theguardian.com

Brian Glanville was fearless, witty and hovered in the press box like Banquo’s ghost​

Nobody swore so elegantly as Glanville, who hovered in the press box like Banquo’s ghost, the gathering’s invisible conscience, ready to deliver a scathing observation, relayed, sotto voce, to a nearby colleague like a chorus baritone in one of his favourite operas.

Sitting behind me in the Tottenham press box during one match, he leaned forward to remark – apropos bugger all – on the future of the then struggling young Sunday Correspondent: “It has the smell of death about it.” Garth Crooks, who was sitting next to him, was as bemused as he was amused.

He deployed the c word frequently and it sounded particularly effective in his educated tones.

 

[kojak]

Remember him from the World Soccer magazine