It’s 16 years since David Peace wrote The Damned Utd, a book that dramatised Brian Clough’s spell in charge of Leeds. But now, a rather more unlikely figure is being given novel treatment: former ref Uriah Rennie.
The 62-year-old became the first (and still only) black referee in the is far from an autobiography, though: it’s a novelisation by author Ashley Hickson-Lovence, using what’s described as a ‘poetic, experimental style’.