Real Madrid and all that (1970/71 remembered) now available in e book and paperback formats.

Posted on October 1, 2020 by The other Bob Wilson

Just a quick note to say that my new book Real Madrid and all that can now be bought from Amazon at;-

As mentioned yesterday, the prohibitive cost of printing meant that I had to choose a method by which the book would only be available at Amazon, but , maybe, if sales went really well, I could buy a small number of paperbacks myself and try to get local retail outlets to take some.

Needless to say, I will welcome all sales and I know that there will be some who will always favour a book they can handle over the electronic version -I’m a bit like that myself. However, for anyone who is happy with either format, can I be a mercenary for a while and just mention that, despite costing more to buy, I will get less than a quarter of the cost price of the book as my “royalty” from a paperback sale, whereas I will receive two thirds of the price of the e book, so I get twice as much for an e book sale as I do for a paperback one.

Having got that out of the way, I do hope anyone who buys the book gets as much enjoyment from it as I did from researching and writing it. I’ve worked on it for the past eighteen months and during that time I’ve had something confirmed that I knew already – 1970/71, for all that it could have been so much better and it cast a long shadow over the club, is my favourite Cardiff City season.

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New Cardiff City book should be on sale within three days!

Posted on September 30, 2020 by The other Bob Wilson

This morning I finished my final proof read of my book “Real Madrid and all that” (1970/71, the season which defined Cardiff City for the rest of the twentieth century) which commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of the tie against, arguably, the greatest club side in the world, and have passed it to Amazon for them to check – if they do not find any issues, the book will be published and go on sale with them in the next few days.

The book is being published under a scheme whereby printing costs are kept at a manageable rate for me, but it does mean that it can only be purchased through Amazon.

The paperback, which has around 280 pages, will be available for £9.99 and it’s also being sold as an e book which will cost £7.50.

As for what the book is about, here’s the blurb which will be on the back cover of the paperback;-

“Real Madrid and all that is not just a chronicle of those two matches against the Spanish giants, it’s also a review of each game played by City in the momentous 1970/71 campaign.
There’s also a chapter on Jimmy Scoular’s early years at Cardiff, a comprehensive breakdown of the controversial sale of John Toshack, homage to the greatest Cardiff City goal I’ve ever seen, an examination of a traumatic few weeks for a newly signed goalkeeper, marvelling at Alan Warboys’ one man demolition of Carlisle, my hero worship of the great Ian Gibson and occasional nods to life outside of Cardiff City in the early seventies.”

I’ll keep you up to date on progress and, hopefully, will be able to tell you when it is available soon.

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