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Footballers Biographies

Ferris_Bueller · 2011-09-18 00:12:03

So guys, looking for a few books to read while I'm on holidays in a few weeks, not a big reader, have read Steven Gerrards and Paul McGraths before and thought both were very interesting. What good biographies have you read and why were they good? Personally thought McGraths was so interesting because despite him being an…

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#52 21-09-2011 11:31am

SEPT 23 1989

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#53 21-09-2011 11:35am

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SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

First ever autobiography I read

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#54 21-09-2011 11:54am

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as mentioned by El Loco Ade, i've read the Garrincha bio - jeez what a character :eek: a tough start in life, fabulously gifted, but fond of a drop and the women - a life lived in the gutter literally at times, and did him self no favours when others genuinely tried to help him. Great read

also mentioned here - A Season with Verona (Tim Parks iirc)

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#55 21-09-2011 3:06pm

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John Hartson's, not much to do with football but it's a great read about overcoming his cancer and gambling problem.

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#56 16-01-2013 5:39pm

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Was it somewhere in this forum that some1 said that Stefan Effenberg had a chapter in his book labeled something like "lothar matthaus tactics" and the chapter was blank?
In any case has any1 read the book?

*Also Robert Enke's was/is an amazing read

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#57 16-01-2013 6:06pm

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Never finished Carraghers one got very boring in the middle.

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#58 16-01-2013 6:09pm

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PerrinV2 wrote: »

Was it somewhere in this forum that some1 said that Stefan Effenberg had a chapter in his book labeled something like "lothar matthaus tactics" and the chapter was blank?
In any case has any1 read the book?

*Also Robert Enke's was/is an amazing read

Think that was mentioned in the "Who do you think are the hardest footballers" thread.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056851631

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#59 16-01-2013 6:09pm

eh i dunno

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Paul lakes book well worth a read. Neville southalls isnt

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