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Saturday Afternoon Fever

The Autobiography: Shortlisted for Sports Entertainment Book of the Year at the Sports Book Awards 2025

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Saturday Afternoon Fever

By: Jeff Stelling
Narrated by: Chris Connel
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 SHORTLISTED FOR SPORTS ENTERTAINMENT BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2025

'Made me laugh and cry' Chris Kamara

'A rollicking whip through [Jeff's] life, like the show itself it offers a consistently entertaining read' Telegraph
'Such an enjoyable book' Ally McCoist

'Jeff's autobiography is a riot of humour and nostalgia. A great read' Phil Thompson

'Saturday Afternoon Fever is great fun - right out of the top drawer' Paul Merson

A profoundly personal, warmly nostalgic and deliciously funny memoir by the legendary Sky Sports anchorman Jeff Stelling, chronicling a life spent obsessing about 'The Beautiful Game' ever since he was a little boy, and underpinned by a deeply rooted love of football and of people.

For a quarter of a century the iconic Sky Sports football presenter Jeff Stelling was the face and voice of football television. As the host of Soccer Saturday, a results show with National Treasure status, he expertly presided over a live panel of former footballers watching the most exciting sporting chapter of the weekend, on the telly, in front of a transfixed audience of millions, watching, unbelievably... on the telly.

Beginning at midday and wrapping just after the Premier League's players had showered and changed, the show's popularity stitched Stelling into the fabric of match-day rituals up and down the country. For fans, the weekend didn't exist without an hour or four of Soccer Saturday.

Saturday Afternoon Fever is Stelling's moving and fascinating memoir: a love letter to the game that has shaped and defined him, as it has millions of other football fans across the UK. This is the passionate, engaging tale of one fan's journey from the terraces at Hartlepool's rainy Victoria Park in the 1960s to the sleek and salubrious confines of the Sky Sports studios, an adventure that spans well over half a century and some of the most fast-changing, exciting periods in football's history.©2024 Jeff Stelling Art & Literature Football (American) Football (Soccer) Journalists, Editors & Publishers Sports Funny Biography Game
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Fantastic listen. I did have to slow it down a little but definitely worth the listen.

Highly recommend.

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I’ve listened to this iconic voice from the very start of soccer Saturday and I have to say it’s been a pleasure to chill out and relax and now and again chuckle too
Highly recommend

So easy to relax and unwind too

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liked the different sections in the book and it was read effortlessly just a brilliant listen

fantastic listen

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Such a brilliant book with great stories and insight. The only issue was the narrator. He mispronounces names of players, managers and football grounds throughout which is frustrating to listen to. I don’t think Jeff would be happy either.

Great book but narrator should have done his research.

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Cracking book well worth a listen. Informative about the changes. Keep up the good work

Interesting Sky sports

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