In his dedication to Leeds United, Gary Edwards has no rivals. He has seen every Leeds game since January 1968, home and away, including League, Cup, and Europe. Although a painter and decorator/signwriter/cartoonist, he's never taken a break from his life as a full-timesoccer fan. He's made a name for himself covering white paint over red for free. He's visited every country in Europe, every continent in the northern hemisphere, and half those in the south. He's been shot at in Greece, run over in Denmark, frightened the king in Sweden, and had a beer with an elephant in Bangkok. All this...

Fifty Shades of White is Gary Edwards's fifth book; and he returns with more fabulous, rib-tickling tales that come with half a century of following one of the most talked about football clubs in the world. Like the time he was asked to accompany a four-and-a-half-foot tall monk with a large hearing aid, who hadn't previously left his abbey for 25 years, to a Leeds United game as part of a BBC documentary. Or the time he escaped from hospital, still in his hospital gown and attached to a catheter, a blood bag, several needles and with two tampons stuck up his nose to travel 70 miles up the A1...