CLUB historian Andrew Taylor ticks two key boxes with his new book, Newport County AFC, The First 100 Years.

Chiefly, Taylor has succeeded in ensuring no-one is excluded in terms of getting full enjoyment out of the 189 page turner.

To those who are lifelong fans of the club, you might not cover too much new ground in terms of the famous song about knowing your history, but you’ll certainly enjoy the anecdotal delivery style with the great and the good from the last century offering their views directly to the author – including a nice foreword by John Aldridge - often to a degree he’ll have the confidence to write “he told me.”

However, unlike Taylor’s previous effort, Look Back in Amber, this book will also work well for the uninitiated, those who don’t know their Rodney Parade from their Spytty Park and who think Tynan and Aldridge are a solicitors’ firm.

Due to the chronological style and the fact that, of course, Newport County’s journey truly has been a rollercoaster to where they are today, there is rarely a dull moment and the likes of Tynan, John Relish right the way through to the key movers and shakers of today like Justin Edinburgh get their say in their own words.

For this reporter – who has been at the coal face for much of the time since 1989 and who has written a lot of stuff on what came post Jerry Sherman – it was really illuminating to read in greater detail than I’ve been able to previously about County’s early years, what was happening around the time of the Great War, for example.

Simply put, the book, priced £14.99 and printed by Amberley Press, is a must read for County fans, be you die hard or fair weathered.