Racy read stirs up a Keane sense of déjà vu

I SPENT a pleasant hour yesterday morning in the company of an acclaimed author, sipping coffee and discussing sexual anxiety, masturbation and football.

As you do.

David Winner is the man who wrote Brilliant Orange, a book which documented his love affair with Dutch football. Now he has turned his attention and rather more ambivalent feelings to the game in his native land. Those Feet the title is inspired by William Blake attempts to get to the heart of English football, via a circuitous but undeniably scenic route, which takes in Victorian prudery, the decline of the empire, the significance of mud, and the life and times of 70s legend Frank Worthington, a full-time footballer and part-time sexual athlete (or was it the other way around), who gave his autobiography the glorious title, One Hump Or Two.