Overview
""Really beautiful... If you're an Everton fan, you must buy this book. If you're a football fan of a certain age, I would really recommend it as well. A really funny, smart writer talking about football, his family and what it means. You will laugh and cry."" Richard Osman, The Rest Is Entertainment podcast JIMMY MULVILLE is one of the most significant figures in British television as owner and managing director of Hat Trick Productions, creators of such hit shows as Drop The Dead Donkey, Outnumbered and Have I Got News For You.He is also a lifelong devotee of Everton FC, having grown up less than a mile from Goodison Park, and has loved them then left before returning to them over the course of their modern history of 80s success followed by regular Premier League struggles. In There's Gonna Be A Show, the Liverpool comprehensive kid who read Classics at Cambridge University tells how Everton have been the backdrop to his father's suicide and his own drug addiction; how he reconnected with his home city after getting clean and sober and helped Bill Kenwright buy the club. Taking as starting point the last game at Goodison Park, sponsored by Hat Trick, and ending with the first game at the new Hill Dickinson Stadum, this is a beautifully written memoir of football's emotional potency and poignancy.
Full Product Details
Author: Jimmy Mulville
Publisher: Floodlit Dreams Ltd
Imprint: Floodlit Dreams Ltd
Dimensions:
Width: 12.90cm
, Height: 1.50cm
, Length: 19.80cm
ISBN: 9781068295706
ISBN 10: 1068295708
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 21 October 2025
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
""Powerful love letter to Everton, a poignant goodbye to Goodison and a soul-searching reflection on life, loss and addiction... beautifully written."" Henry Winter
""Powerful love letter to Everton, a poignant goodbye to Goodison and a soul-searching reflection on life, loss and addiction... beautifully written."" Henry Winter ""Really beautiful... If you're an Everton fan, you must buy this book. If you're a football fan of a certain age, I would really recommend it as well. A really funny, smart writer talking about football, his family and what it means. You will laugh and cry."" Richard Osman, The Rest Is Entertainment podcast ""There's Gonna Be A Show is a book full of love. Love of football, love of family and love of home. Fittingly I loved it. Honest, funny and wise, it is about so much more than football although there's plenty of rip roaring action to be savoured. A joy."" Nick Hancock, The Famous Sloping Pitch podcast ""Superb... The love for his club is clear and obvious."" Jim White, The Telegraph
Author Information
JIMMY MULVILLE is one of the most significant figures in British television as owner and managing director of Hat Trick Productions, creators of such hit shows as Drop The Dead Donkey, Outnumbered and Have I Got News For You. He is also a lifelong devotee of Everton FC.
