Nah - the library, that way I can get to read his 'version' of events without him benefitting from another purchase of his book. He didn't want my money when he left the club so I'll be ar$ed if he gets any more money from me.

who cares we all need to move on

I reckon there'll never be a book.

And smallears, I agree with most of your post, but I think the intensity of the love of the sport in this city is often because it [ihas[/i two clubs not in spite of it.

The passion would be nowhere near as high with a single club.

I really think there will be. We all know cooke chases money. If theres not a book i'll eat my hat

I reckon reddan is correct.

Unless the book is a vanity publication (self published), then I can't ever see a financial return big enough for any publisher to even consider financing such a project. At the moment the target audience would only be RL supporters in Hull and a few anoraks who collect any RL-related ephemera.

Think you will find the costs of publishing a book have dropped - much is done online now and many first-up authors use a print on demand process!

That said I think the book would only become reality when the impending court action by FC ruins out of time!

Although many will say he has damaged RL in Hull he has also done a fair bit of good for the sport in the city. Pre Sean Long he was the only player worthy of getting our teams any more than three lines in a national tabloid, the derby always had more press due to the 'return of Paul Cooke', and the nemesis type stories.

No doubt he'll come back and haunt us in a similar way to which he has Hull and there is still a few stories left in him yet. (I still don't think he's necessarily played his last game for a Hull club).

As the saying goes all press is good press.

If there is, wonder how many FC fans will buy it, even out of curiosity.

Just picking out random figures are we?

It won't be on the scale of Sean Long's (who is famous enough to be on Question of sport!), with serializations in national papers. Or Barry McDermott's or Jamie Peacock's for that matter. But the target audience you describe isn't too different from Stanley Gene's. There is a lot of goodwill towards Gene, and he did have a remarkable story to tell spanning two cultures. On the other hand, I reckon morbid curiosity sells pretty well and there is definately a story to tell.

He should do it soon, probably when the statute of limitations on his Hull to Rovers legal stuff passes. Lee Jackson, for example, had probably been off the RL stage a bit too long when he published. Cooke's could actually be a decent book if they get a good writer and do it warts and all.

I'd certainly buy the book - then the gratitude I reluctantly owe for the 2005 CC try will be repaid. He should do it soon, though. Out of city, out of mind, and all that. Would the legal challenge Hull could drop on him prevent this, though, until that deadline has passed?

Yeah I'd have thought so really, remember him saying before that he really couldn't tell the full and/or real story until everything was sorted out. Until the case is declared 100% closed you'd therefore think he still can't.

No, simply dividing his much publicised salary by the number of months in a year

You must be confusing publicised with speculated,

Hence the "vanity publishing" bit

He'd still be subject to libel law

That shouldn't stop him telling the story (though he'll have to be careful), whereas the risk of predujicing a civil court case that everybody knows isn't going to happen, does.

I wouldn't buy it. If someone offered to lend me it then I would probably read it but I certainly wouldn't give him any money.

Says our well known legal expert!

cod'ead is Hudgell?

I knew it

i'd buy it, just like i bought the Longy one, very funny read - esp about his antics after waking up in totally the wrong house and stuff. If anyone hasnt read it give us a PM and ill lend you it

I liked that

, also the bit with Nobby and the wet bed

Yeah I know as much about Common Law as you do accountancy.

If you've nothing to add to the debate, stop flaming.

That must be the next step for some of the serial posters on here.

Wonder which team Cooke was rooting for tonight?