Anoraks

[irunthev]

Just finished reading a book by Rob Grillo (Anoraknaphobia), a  self-confessed anorak when it comes to soccer clubs and grounds in UK. He is only interested in non-league grounds (whether still in use or not) and football at local level as well as compiling and collecting league tables from various leagues throughout the world. He and his sort will go to anything up to 300+ games a season and visit several hundred grounds in doing so, making sure to collect a programme from every ground they go to. They don't really go for the football, just the ground and the programme and are known as ground-hoppers. He documents statistics about all these clubs and various leagues and apparently there is a fairly healthy collection of these types of people in the UK and there are a multitude of web sites and forums for them. Anyone know of any similar anoraks involved in Ireland in any sports.

[mrsandman]

Just finished reading a book by Rob Grillo (Anoraknaphobia), a  self-confessed anorak when it comes to soccer clubs and grounds in UK. He is only interested in non-league grounds (whether still in use or not) and football at local level as well as compiling and collecting league tables from various leagues throughout the world. He and his sort will go to anything up to 300+ games a season and visit several hundred grounds in doing so, making sure to collect a programme from every ground they go to. They don't really go for the football, just the ground and the programme and are known as ground-hoppers. He documents statistics about all these clubs and various leagues and apparently there is a fairly healthy collection of these types of people in the UK and there are a multitude of web sites and forums for them. Anyone know of any similar anoraks involved in Ireland in any sports.

Sounds like possibly the worst book ever written

[irunthev]

I must admit it wasn't the easiest of reads