Football: Brendon's back with Little Old Yeovil

YEOVIL Town fan Brendon Owen has written a new book about the Glovers.

Brendon, who has written two previous books about the club, is hoping his latest offering, entitled Little Old Yeovil, will be available to buy from around the start of the new season.

And amazingly it has taken Brendon less than two months from start to finish to get the book sorted and off to the printers.

His new book will look at the club’s most recent history over the past 18 months from the time when Yeovil were looking down on their luck after being dumped out of the

FA Cup by Fleetwod Town at Huish Park in December 2011 - right up to the unthinkable and winning promotion to The Championship in that never-to-be-forgotten play-off final success over Brentford at Wembley Stadium on May 19, 2013.

And if Yeovil’s rise from doom and gloom to jubilation has been a massive turnaround in fortunes, Brendon’s book-writing has been even quicker.

“It wasn’t until the open top bus tour through town after Wembley and Gary Johnson (Yeovil manager) came up to me and said it might be time for another book,” he said.

“I’ve been writing non-stop at all times of the day and night from 6am in the morning and then again at midnight – it’s been manic.”

Brendon’s previous books were Yeovil ‘til I Die – A Ciderspace Odyssey which centred around the Glovers’ Nationwide Conference title success of 2003. And that was followed by Behind the Green Door – looking at Yeovil’s first-ever season in the Football League in 2003-04.

Little Old Yeovil is different to Brendon’s previous efforts which were more of a first-person account of those exciting times.

“I’ve used a lot of the archive material from the fans’ Ciderspace website and supporters’ forum comments,” he explained.

The book, which Brendon has self-published, also contains 16 pages of photographs.

Part of the proceeds from the sale of the book will be donated to the Adam Stansfield Foundation – which was set up following the death of former Yeovil favourite Stansfield in August 2010 from cancer.

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