Out of Time: 1966 and the End of Old-Fashioned Britain (Wisden Sports Writing) - Tapa dura

It is a book to read avidly from cover to cover (www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk)

Excellent (Choice Magazine)

Very enjoyable (The Financial Times)

Out of Time describes with charm and self-deprecating humour the attractions of sexual fumbling, holidays abroad, the London music scene, Chinese food and much else. But this joyous book, a memoir of late adolescence laced with social and football history, is also a catalogue of both the untidiness and the limits of change, and a reminder that even in London opportunities were circumscribed and aspirations often throttled. (Mark Damazer The Financial Times)

I loved it ... brings the year vividly alive (Jim Crace)

Out of Time is a gentle and affectionate portrait of the capital's gradual awakening to the charm of pop culture at that time. (The Economist)

The most enjoyable of these books (Richard Williams in his round-up of the latest books relating to England's World Cup year The Guardian)

Chapman is as good on the background - a post-war childhood and adolescence, with bomb sites all around - as he is on the football. (Richard Williams The Guardian)

An exuberantly brilliant memoir. There's a way we football fans have of clapping with our hands above our heads. There are many passages in Peter Chapman's book - even single sentences - that make me want to do just that in sheer admir­ation. For good measure, perhaps I'd throw in a cheer and an expletive of delight too. (Adrian Chiles The Tablet)

Peter Chapman's exercise in nostalgia Out of Time reminds us of a year when for England, almost anything seemed possible, on and off the pitch, 1966 (Philosophy Football)