Books by David McVay

David McVay was born in Workington in a decade when Cumberland was still a county and the town had a Football League team. He claims to have played no part in their relegation to the Northern Premier League in 1977 and furthermore, during over 200 league and cup games for Notts County, Peterborough United and Lincoln City, as well as a brief loan spell with Torquay United, all clubs emerged unscathed despite his contribution from midfield and defence. The player himself, having scooped up too many headers off the line and half empty bottles of vin rouge at sporting dinners, decided on a career in journalism, working as a sports and feature writer for the Nottingham Evening Post from 1983. More recently, he covered sport for The Times for seven years and now writes The Heart of Football column for the Daily Telegraph. The author's other books include Notts County FC, a history of the Magpies, The Complete Centre Forward, a definitive biography of Tommy Lawton, which he co-wrote with Andy Smith, and the best-selling Steak Diana Ross; Diary of a Football Nobody, the reminiscences of a journeyman footballer during the 1970s based upon his own contemporary diaries. He lives near Bunny, south Nottinghamshire with his wife Debby and two children Tom and Jessica.