Any recommendations for football autobiographies??

[Neecha]

Reading Harry Redknapps at the moment and its excellent but what's one you can highly recommend?

 

[Blue and White Tiger]

Zlatan

 

[mitch]

brian clough's or Jamie carragher's were both good

 

[scoobiewhite]

I am the secret footballer, tales from the secret footballer, bobby Robson's...think it's called so long but not farewell or something...

Also Brian cloughs was great, although you won't like the parts relating to the Albion!

My favorite anecdote from that one comes from Martin o'neils foreword...on entering cloughs office and demanding to know why he was playing with the reserves clough replied...'son, it's because you're just slightly to good for the third team'.

Classic!

 

[Gullflyinghigh]

I've just finished 'Where's Your Caravan? My Life on Football's B-roads' by Chris Hargreaves (newly appointed Torquay manager) which was surprisingly good. No massive shocks or big names but a good read regardless...oh, and it gets extra points for actually being written by him as well.

 

[Easy 10]

Simon Jordans is very entertaining.

Paul Mersons "How Not to be a Professional Footballer" is good as well.

 

[El Presidente]

Garry Nelson Left Foot Forward. Not ideal if you are a Barry Lloyd fan though

 

[scoobiewhite]

Also just remembered, Jamie Lawrence (winger whose best spell was with Bradford City in the premiere league around 2000), wrote a great book about his journey from time at her majesties pleasure to the premiere league and his all round genuine charitable efforts to help give development opportunities to kids from deprived backgrounds such as his.

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

Interesting how much disdain both Joe Corrigan and Gordon Smith had for Chris Cattlin's management skills, in their autobiographies, when Albion fans tend to hold him in very high esteem.

 

[Hiney]

Paul Lake - I'm not really here
Tony Cascarino - Full Time

Both of Bobby Charlton's are decent
Got Peter Storey's for Christmas but haven't read it yet

 

[Charlies Shinpad]

Alan Mullery's is a cracking read as well

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Roy Keane's gives you a bit of an insight into that very strange man.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Robert Enke - A Life too Short is an interesting but ultimately sad read.

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

Very strange that Jimmy Case hasn't had an autobiography out and yet lots of journeymen footballers have.

 

[brightonrock]

I am Zlatan. I cannot recommend it enough. A brilliantly arrogant man.

 

[big nuts]

Paul McGrath's autobiography is very good. Incredible to think he was still such a fine player at the back end of his career despite not training and battling a booze addiction.

 

[stugbhafc1]

Roy Keane's gives you a bit of an insight into that very strange man.

The only one i've read quite good though

 

[Spencer Vignes]

I've got a feeling that Jimmy Case has released an autobiography, although I myself have never seen it. When I was working on my Albion book 'A Few Good Men' Jimmy willingly co-operated in the chapter devoted to him but made me aware from the start that he wanted to keep the majority of the Liverpool stuff back for his own book which he was about to start working on - and that was back in 2007.

I loved Cascarino's 'Full Time'- read the thing cover to cover in a day on holiday. Found Stan Bowles' autobiography in a second hand shop just before Christmas and that's just marvellous for its outrageousness. Plenty of tales about him and fellow QPR 'wide boy' Don Shanks who of course signed for the Albion in 1981. Dated Mary Stavin, a former Miss World - as you do!

 

[gripper stebson]

Not exactly what you have asked for but this is great. http://www.amazon.co.uk/32-Programmes-Dave-Roberts/dp/0857500503

 

[Fitzcarraldo]

Robert Enke - A Life too Short is an interesting but ultimately sad read.

Another recommendation for this. It's interesting reading about the more human aspects of young players moving internationally between clubs and how it can affect them. It is easy to just think about the money involved in transfers rather than about the young bloke moving around underneath it.