Football autobiographies...

[PTP]

All true. You Tranny Rovers boys are obviously a bit jealous.

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Yeah i agree all true with ref LFC but i felt like i had read the annie road book before i had even picked it up. Maybe i am being a bit critical off it cause i was hoping for something new, different, interesting about our club bit didn't get it - some people may find it very interesting/entertaining etc but i have read more interesting LFC adventures on Est/St/6CM/RAWK/TLW etc etc etc

[Matt]

I know what you mean. If you read one, you've read 'em all. Same applies to football films like Green Street/Football Factories.

Very few footballers autobiographies are actually that good. They all follow the same boring formula.

[PTP]

I know what you mean. If you read one, you've read 'em all. Same applies to football films like Green Street/Football Factories.

Very few footballers autobiographies are actually that good. They all follow the same boring formula.

thats why i prob enjoyed the Away Days one, cause it's not so much a story of being in a firm and getting into fights and having the east stand one afternoon in september etc etc(tho that is a 'theme' if u like of the book) but more about a normal lad growing up in the merseyside area and being stuck between being sensible or being a scally, experiencing life, getting pissed, trying drugs, shagging birds, getting into scraps, losing freinds/gaining friends etc.

Again thats why i enjoyed Kicked into Touch by Fred Eyre - it breaks the mould and follows a completey different path to you average footballers "i am the bollocks" stories

[Matt]

Will keep an eye out for both of them

[saveferris]

It’s not an autobiograpgy but it’s a book you should love:

‘No More Buddha, Only Football’ by Chris England.

It’s half travel/half football – a fantastic account of the author’s trip to Japan for the 2002 World Cup (he’s a freelance football journalist). Laugh out loud funny and insightful.

This is a good book, not too heavy so perfect for hols

[spud_gun]

It's not an biogrpahy but it's possibly the best football book you'll ever read

'The Miracle of Castel di Sangro'

You can pick it up on Amazon for about 7 quid. Well worth it.

[Ketario]

This isn't an autobiog but it is excellent;



You'll especially like Chapter 6; "The rotation policy - why it made us the team we were"

[andyinswinton]

Micky Quinns is a good read as is Stan Collymores. I read Paolo Di Canio's and Barry Frys a while ago and they are worth reading on a beach.

I find that the more controversial the player the better.

I read a lot of football autobiographies. I want to read Holloways and am thinking of reading Warnocks although I'll wait until they are cheap.

[kev776]

Tommy Smiths is good for old LFC stuff

[marcgerard]

Ferenc Puskas' Captain of Hungary

It has been just been republished and is well worth a read

[Shanks]

Paul Gascgoine: Gazza My Story

When he was doing the book signing in Church St, he apparently told his people that he didn't want to sign any books as Gazza

only Paul, or Paul Gascgoine

I managed to finish this on a two week holiday myself.

I have a lot of time for this fella.

By the end of the book it's difficult to decide how you view him on the one hand the most talented player of his generation with a tragic background, on the other the man who had it all and blew it.

[badpiggy]

This isn't an autobiog but it is excellent;



You'll especially like Chapter 6; "The rotation policy - why it made us the team we were"

being quite the funny cunt these days

[PLY]

The Stan Ternent book is supposed to be raelly good

Oh and although Away Days is about Tranmere it's written by Kevin Sampson who's a Liverpool fan and used to write The End with Peter Hooton , I preferred his book Powder that was ****ing funny.

[zimbo]

Tony Adams' autobiography is quite good if you enjoy reading about grown men waking up covered in piss, wrapping their motors around inobtrusive lamp-posts and befriending tiny rodents in prison cells.

Although not an autobiography, and dealing with events that took place in 1974, David Peace's 'The Damned United' (a fictional account of Brian Clough's 44 day reign as Leeds manager) is probably the best football-related book I've come across.

[Chrono]

Although not an autobiography, and dealing with events that took place in 1974, David Peace's 'The Damned United' (a fictional account of Brian Clough's 44 day reign as Leeds manager) is probably the best football-related book I've come across.

I read that on several recommendations from people on this forum and didn't enjoy it at all but then I'm not a massive fan of football books.