Book read: Red Machine: The Players' Stories by Simon Hughes

A book with an interview per chapter of players from the 1960s-1980s in the Liverpool team.

If you followed football at that time, particularly the period in the 1980s where Liverpool were the team to beat then it is a really nostalgic look back at the times and allows lots of comparisons with how the game has changed.

The profile of football was so much lower then, and consequently the game was much less commercialised.  The success of Liverpool toward the late 1980s was just the beginning of that revolution. 

Although it did not seem amateurish at the time, a lot of the training, medical treatment was pretty basic.  Liverpool had a simple philosophy, where they excelled was in buying players that would fit well into a team.

A really good read, and a nice piece of football history.