Drawing on new interviews and over 100 never-before-seen images from forgotten archives at the Mirror, Liverpool Post and Echo, famous Reds fan Peter Hooton tells the story of Anfield's legendary Boot Room Boys, the teams they built and the Club they took to the top.
Born and raised in Liverpool, Peter Hooton co-founded, edited and
wrote for the legendary Merseyside fanzine The End which featured
football, music and fashion. John Peel listed it as one of his
all-time favourite magazines of the 1980s. Peter then became a
songwriter with his group The Farm who went on to have a No 1
album.
Over the years he has had numerous articles published in a variety
of magazines and newspapers including the Face, the Observer, the
Guardian, the Daily Mirror, Loaded, GQ, the Liverpool Echo and the
New European.
A lifelong supporter and season ticket holder at Liverpool FC, he
wrote for the LFC Matchday magazine during the 1990s and
contributed to several books about the club. In 2009 he authored
the top-selling Liverpool edition in the When Football Was Football
book series.
Peter has also scripted TV programmes, including a Granada TV
documentary series about Liverpool's social/economic and political
history, BBC Newsnight (Hillsborough) and BBC This Week
(Politics).
Peter has most recently been executive producer of a documentary
about Liverpool's legendary manager Bill Shankly, Nature's Fire,
which has received critical acclaim.
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