Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Charles Dickens, Billy Childish, George Boyd, Andrew Crofts, Lee Ryan, Bobby Valentino, Joe Machine, Sean Gabb, Lachie Thomson, Walter Norris Congreve, Jock Robertson, Neil Shipperley, Sir William Pearce, 1st Baronet, Kevin Eldon, Alexander Godley, Syd King, Ben Mills, Gilbert Waterhouse, Anne Dudley, Zandra Rhodes, Matt Bodkin, Andrew Sambrook, Pete Molinari, George Thorne, Sir William Pearce, 2nd Baronet, Percy Whitlock, Kid Harpoon, Rémy Noë, James Mouat, William Vale, Edward Knapp-Fisher, Thomas Fletcher Waghorn, David Masters, Kevin Hunt, Dick Tydeman, Francis Collin, Jason Lillis, George Louch, Alan Liptrott, James Sutcliffe, Tommy Ward, Nathaniel Barnaby, Joe Dickenson, Henry Stephen Fox, Basil Hitchcock, Raymond Love, Lionel Edward Pyke, Graham Knight, Ian Patterson, Ashley Jackson, Tom Nekrews, Phil Handford, Tony Eeles, William Jones, Ivan Haines, John King. Excerpt: Alan Liptrott (born 1946) is a retired telephone technician from Walderslade in Kent . He has for many years been a prominent supporter of Gillingham Football Club , having been heavily involved in the fund-raising campaign to keep the club afloat when it was forced into administration in the mid-1990s, and serving for a number of years as a committee member of the Gills Independent Supporters' Club. More recently he has become notable within the wider football world for a long-running and high-profile dispute with Gills chairman Paul Scally , which led Scally to hit Liptrott with a life ban from the club's Priestfield Stadium in 2001. The full details of the dispute are unclear, but the most significant factor is believed to be Liptrott's ownership of the gillinghamfc.co.uk domain name , which Scally believes should belong to the club. Although Liptrott's supporters staged an ongoing