Get In!

It doesn't really matter who you support. Football is a cruel, cruel game. All of us fans have had moments of shock, disappointment, and feeling like a right knobhead. We want our teams to play like winners who’ll fight for the badge to their last breath. More often, there's so many clowns on the pitch we think the circus is in town. We've endured abject surrenders in the pissing down rain, watched multi-millionaire managers lose the plot, and signed players who couldn't pass a parcel, all to the sound of Michael Owen's 'expert' analysis. Season after bloody season. It stings so much your team might as well be sponsored by Dettol. Why do we do it to ourselves? There’s a lot to love I guess. Nothing will ever emulate the high that a major win or seeing your team lift a trophy brings. Take Manchester United winning the treble: footballing perfection. And nothing else will ever come close. Life doesn’t get any better than that. As I talk you through everything from transfers to trophies to touchline tantrums, join me as I give my definitive take on football. There's a lot to get through, so take my hand like an over-eager mascot and walk with me out of the tunnel into the glaring floodlights of what it means to be a fan… …and how to survive it.

It doesn't really matter who you support. Football is a cruel, cruel game. All of us fans have had moments of shock, disappointment, and feeling like a right knobhead. We want our teams to play like winners who’ll fight for the badge to their last breath. More often, there's so many clowns on the pitch we think the circus is in town. We've endured abject surrenders in the pissing down rain, watched multi-millionaire managers lose the plot, and signed players who couldn't pass a parcel, all to the sound of Michael Owen's 'expert' analysis. Season after bloody season. It stings so much your team might as well be sponsored by Dettol. Why do we do it to ourselves? There’s a lot to love I guess. Nothing will ever emulate the high that a major win or seeing your team lift a trophy brings. Take Manchester United winning the treble: footballing perfection. And nothing else will ever come close. Life doesn’t get any better than that. As I talk you through everything from transfers to trophies to touchline tantrums, join me as I give my definitive take on football. There's a lot to get through, so take my hand like an over-eager mascot and walk with me out of the tunnel into the glaring floodlights of what it means to be a fan… …and how to survive it.

*THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER* *A FINANCIAL TIMES , GUARDIAN AND TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025* Get In is the explosive behind-the-scenes story of Labour’s brutal return to power and a revelatory account of Keir Starmer's ascent to Number 10. ‘Without question the political book of the year’ Tim Shipman ‘A cracking read’ Financial Times ‘Gripping . . . fast-paced’ Sunday Times ‘A rattling tale terrifically well told’ Andrew Rawnsley ‘So many golden nuggets’ Michael Gove From electoral wipeout in 2019 to landslide victory in 2024 and on into Labour’s first hundred days in government, Get In is a blistering exposé of the most significant and ruthless political transformation in a generation. At its heart is Morgan McSweeney, a mastermind of political subterfuge and author of a strategy to eviscerate the party, bury the left and rebuild it as a vote-winning machine. In Starmer he saw the perfect vessel for his vision: a man with no political identity but burning with ambition and a single all-consuming principle: to win. Drawing on unrivalled access throughout the party and extensive leaks of internal party documents and WhatsApp messages, Get In shows how together they betrayed and marginalised Corbyn and his followers, then forged a path in which promises, and at times principles, were readily discarded in pursuit of power. ‘Remarkable’ Rory Stewart ‘Riveting . . . the revelations made me gasp’ Matt Chorley ‘Stuffed full of scoops’ Laura Kuenssberg ‘Devastating . . . full of lively stories’ Andrew Marr ‘Impeccably written’ Lewis Goodall ‘Gripping’ Helen Lewis

*THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER* *A FINANCIAL TIMES , GUARDIAN AND TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025* Get In is the explosive behind-the-scenes story of Labour’s brutal return to power and a revelatory account of Keir Starmer's ascent to Number 10. ‘Without question the political book of the year’ Tim Shipman ‘A cracking read’ Financial Times ‘Gripping . . . fast-paced’ Sunday Times ‘A rattling tale terrifically well told’ Andrew Rawnsley ‘So many golden nuggets’ Michael Gove From electoral wipeout in 2019 to landslide victory in 2024 and on into Labour’s first hundred days in government, Get In is a blistering exposé of the most significant and ruthless political transformation in a generation. At its heart is Morgan McSweeney, a mastermind of political subterfuge and author of a strategy to eviscerate the party, bury the left and rebuild it as a vote-winning machine. In Starmer he saw the perfect vessel for his vision: a man with no political identity but burning with ambition and a single all-consuming principle: to win. Drawing on unrivalled access throughout the party and extensive leaks of internal party documents and WhatsApp messages, Get In shows how together they betrayed and marginalised Corbyn and his followers, then forged a path in which promises, and at times principles, were readily discarded in pursuit of power. ‘Remarkable’ Rory Stewart ‘Riveting . . . the revelations made me gasp’ Matt Chorley ‘Stuffed full of scoops’ Laura Kuenssberg ‘Devastating . . . full of lively stories’ Andrew Marr ‘Impeccably written’ Lewis Goodall ‘Gripping’ Helen Lewis