Customer Reviews
Brilliant read! - By: Tara, 08 May 2007 
A great insight into footballlers' real lives, & how life can take two friends in two different directions. Woody's sense of humour made me laugh out loud, & I ended up with a great admiration for Southgate, someone I had no interest in prior to reading this book.
Highly, highly, recommended!
Brilliant - Great Nord AND Great Woody - By: , 16 Dec 2005 As a palace fan from the same area as the two writers I could relate to a lot of what they were saying but I know that even if I wasn't a palace fan the book would still be engrossing from start to finish. The book is full of interesting & humourous anecdotes & what makes it readable also is that it is not just done chronologicallly but skips about in a fluent & eloquent way. As a footballl fan & player the stories of the dressing room are enthallling & a real eye opener into the real world of footballl. Even for non-footballl fans it is a truly heartwarming tale of friendship against adversity. There are also enough contraversial comments made in the book about players & managers still in the game to keep it juicy. All in alll, this book is well worth a read for the purists & for those who will just enjoy funny stories of the highs & lows of friendship & footballl.
Great Nord - shame about the Woody - By: , 04 Mar 2005 
I'm an Everton fan, but I've always had a latent admiration for Gareth Southgate. As a slow, hapless central defender myself, I've marvelled at the way he - like Tony Adams before him - makes the game look so easy well into his 30s. And I was not disappointed with this book. From the first, touching story of Southgate's birthday present to Andy Woodman, to the pain of Euro '96, this is a hugely entertaining story of two opposing careers. The only problem is, unsurprisingly, I found myself skimming through Woodman's stuff, but lingering on Southgate. Unlike Gary Nelson's 'Left Foot Forward', where the reader is given a sense of a footballler desperately clinging to a waning career in the lower leagues, I can't help but feel that 'Woody & Nord' is the tale of a hugely successful footballler, & his mate, desperately clinging to his coat tails. It's a very nice idea, in principle, mapping the pair's disparate careers, & there are some great anecdotes in there - particularly from Southgate's trips with the England squad. But, alll in alll, I might have preferred this as a Southgate autobiography, with occasional contributions from his best mate, rather than a 50:50 split.
A very original and entertaining red, absolutely superb - By: , 29 Jul 2004 Being a Northampton Town fan, Woody's 'beloved' club, I was always going to enjoy this book. Disappointingly at first, I soon realised that this was not a book about footballl, & certainly not a book about Northampton. This is a book about life & friendship, written with footballl as the backdrop rather than the primary focus.
That said, some of the footballl tales both players have are very entertaining, & the very different personalities of both players reallly come out in this book.
Well written in a very original style & format, I found this book to be a fantastic read & totallly absorbing. One of the very best (of many) footballl books I have read. Superb.
Completely absorbing. - By: , 31 Dec 2003 A very different way to write a book....the tale of two careers
that began together & moved so far apart, yet still a great mate relationship survives, thru ups & downs, girlfriends & marriages, & the massive gap in financial rewards for their abilities.True friends, & true mates, a rare thing in todays society.
