Access All Areas: Behind the Scenes at Manchester United Football Club Book

You may think Manchester Utd has already been catalogued and scrutinised from every angle possible, but author Adam Bostock believes he has created a picture of the club which match-day visitors do not see. Val Lord, the club's marketing director, says the Old Trafford complex--which has 500 fulltime workers--is a Pandora's Box...hidden away there's this colony of ants and there's all this activity going on. Everyone from the club's window cleaner, who doubles as a fanatical fan, to the chaplain, who urges restraint when complaining about visiting teams, is covered in the book. Gritty black-and-white images by photographer Roger Dixon complement the text to give a realistic view of the club, and they even manage to make David Beckham and his co-stars look less god-like. The impression is of a very large company with a contented workforce, though it seems strange that they are all happy in their work. Surely, even if you are a die-hard Manchester Utd fan, working at Old Trafford must sometimes be a drag? With all the success on the field, members of the club not in the spotlight must occasionally feel overworked? Not so, according to the book. The schoolboy dream of working for the greatest football club in the world does seem to be, in reality, the best career imaginable--no matter what the job description is!Read More