How to Be an Ex-Footballer - Peter Crouch

Descriere How to Be an Ex-Footballer - Peter Crouch

The first truly insider guide to being a Premiership footballer, from Britain's funniest sporting icon Very funny on almost every page, wonderfully self-deprecating and very sharp on the ludicrous behaviour of the modern player' -Sunday Times \n'The funniest man in British sport' - Metro \n**ASunday TimesSports Book of the Year****Shortlisted for the National Book Awards****Longlisted for theTelegraphSports Book Awards Autobiography of the Year** \nYou become a footballer because you love football. And then you are a footballer, and you're suddenly in the strangest, most baffling world of all. A world where one team-mate comes to training in a bright red suit with matching top-hat, cane and glasses, without any actual glass in them, and another has so many sports cars they forget they have left a Porsche at the train station. Even when their surname is incorporated in the registration plate. \nSo walk with me into the dressing-room, to find out which players refuse to touch a football before a game, to discover why a load of millionaires never have any shower-gel, and to hear what Cristiano Ronaldo says when he looks at himself in the mirror. \nWe will go into post-match interviews, make fools of ourselves on social media and try to ensure that we never again pay 250 for a haircut that should have cost a tenner. We'll be coached and cajoled by Harry Redknapp, upset Rafa Benitez and be soothed by the sound of an accordion played by Sven-Goran Eriksson's assistant Tord Grip. There will be some very bad music and some very bad decisions. \nI am Peter Crouch. This isHow To Be A Footballer. Shall we? \nThe funniest man in British sport - Metro Peter Crouch is a comedy genius - Daily Mail Often recruited before they've worn long trousers, today's footballers become superstars who earn huge amounts without ever learning much about the world beyond the training ground. Coddled by their support teams, everything is done for them. They live their lives in the glaring media spotlight, yet only really develop one life skill - how to kick a ball better. Then inevitably, when age catches up with them or injury strikes, these \nman-children are thrown out into the real world, utterly defenceless apart from their multi-million-pound bank accounts. So what do these Peter Pans, whose careers end just as most people's are getting going, do with the rest of their lives? Crouch speaks from his own experience and discusses with fellow former professionals too - ju

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Ebury Press

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9781529106602

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