Not For Me, Clive: Stories From the Voice of Football

Clive Tyldesley's brilliant, emotional commentaries became the soundtrack to matches that will stay with fans for the rest of their lives. He loved the idea of commentating on his team, on every team, and ditched the girl next door for the diva on the silver screen. Football changes everything, turning us into someone else. Meeting the greats of football has changed everything for him and probably for you too.

Format: Hardback
Length: 352 pages
Publication date: 13 May 2021
Publisher: Headline Publishing Group

Shortlisted for the 2022 Sports Book Awards




An enjoyable and interesting journey through football






Donald McRae, The Guardian




This is really good. Raw, funny and revealing on football, on Ferguson, Clough, Dalglish & worth getting for the Roy Keane selfie story alone. Emotional on his ITV exit. Talent like Tyldesley's appeals to all ages.




Henry Winter




Started reading this and couldn't stop ... wise and entertaining on the big names and games. Clever work.




Paul Hayward


Clive Tyldesley's brilliant, emotive commentaries became the soundtrack to matches that will stay with the fans for the rest of their lives.




Oliver Holt


Football changes everything. It changes how we feel, how we think, how we behave. It turns us into someone else.




You love your team first. It's tribal. Except I did love something else. I loved the idea of commentating on my team, on every team. I loved it even more than my team. I ditched the girl next door for the diva on the silver screen.




Like all true romances, it was irrational and intoxicating, it was tangled and foolish, it became addictive and occasionally heart-breaking and it kept on changing.




Two United goals inside two minutes changed it in 1999. A teenage Evertonian called Rooney twisted the plot in 2002. Three Liverpool goals in less than six minutes changed everything again in 2005.




Hello, hello.


Moments. Mere blinks of wide eyes. Football happens in heartbeats. Meeting those moments is my job. Seeing them, saying them, spelling out the difference they have just made. It's all I've ever wanted to do. Probably all I can do.




Spending time in the company of the greats of football like Sir Alex Ferguson, Bill Shankly, Brian Clough and Sir Kenny Dalglish has changed everything for me, and probably for you too.

Weight: 574g
Dimension: 165 x 241 x 34 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781472281289