Robbie Fowler: My Life In Football

Robbie Fowler: My Life In Football
Author: Robbie Fowler
Publisher: Kings Road Publishing
Total Pages: 311
Release: 2019-11-14
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1788701127

Born in Liverpool in 1975, Robbie Fowler became a club icon by the time he was eighteen. Now, he takes us through the games that have shaped his life and football philosophy, more than 25 years after he first signed as a professional. Engaging, personal and revealing, Robbie opens up about his astounding achievements, the price of fame and the regrets and struggles of being a professional footballer. From Hillsborough to Madrid, via the cup treble, that goal line celebration, Houllier, Benítez, Klopp and more, Robbie explains his thinking about the modern game. Inviting readers inside the dressing room, he shares stories of legendary teammates like Rush, McManaman and Gerrard, as well as his rise to football's top table. What inspired him to play the beautiful game? How did he get back up after the injuries that blighted his career? What gave him the drive to keep going and pursue his dreams? My Life in Football is the inspiring story of a local boy who became a legend.

Fowler

Fowler
Author: Robbie Fowler
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Total Pages: 420
Release: 2006
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780330437639

Pronounced as the greatest goalscoring talent since Jimmy Greaves, seventeen-year old Robbie Fowler was immediately catapulted to fame. This is an insight into the game of football, and also an account of an incredible career. This is the story of one of the game's icons, and the story of the modern game itself.

Football Manager Stole My Life

Football Manager Stole My Life
Author: Iain Macintosh
Publisher: BackPage Press
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2012
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0956497179

Football Manager stole my life reveals the cult behind a computer game that, since its debut in 1992, has sold 20m copies and become a part of football culture.

Carra: My Autobiography

Carra: My Autobiography
Author: Jamie Carragher
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 434
Release: 2008-09-11
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1407038931

For the Anfield faithful, Jamie Carragher represents everything that is great about Liverpool Football Club, prompting the Kop to sing 'we all dream of a team of Carraghers'. The club's vice-captain, longest-serving player and one of a select band of players to have made more than 500 appearances for the Reds, Carra never gives less than 100 per cent for the cause. He is the embodiment of old-fashioned football values - a rarity in the modern game - honest and uncompromising. In Carra: My Autobiography, the Liverpool defender takes us deep into the heart of Anfield, into the club's past glories and its uncertain future. In his typically down-to-earth style, Carra reveals what made him discard his blue Evertonian roots to become a fully fledged Red, how he mended his wild ways to become a true professional and a multiple trophy-winner, and the truth about a succession of managers - Evans, Houllier, Benítez - in the hottest seat in football. A Scouser through and through, Carra also has some forthright views on the England team, and tells why he rejected calls to return to the international fold. Full of sensational stories and controversial opinions, of glory and heartbreak on and off the pitch, Carra: My Autobiography is a football book unlike any other. The authentic voice of Anfield, Carra is one of the Bootroom Boys in true Liverpool tradition, and is as committed on the page as in every game he has played.

How Football Saved My Life

How Football Saved My Life
Author: Alan Stubbs
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2013-08-29
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1471128350

The day had gone badly: Celtic had just lost to their Old Firm rivals Rangers in the 1999 Scottish Cup final, and now Alan Stubbs had to provide a sample for a random drugs test. Little did he know, but it would help save his life... The results of the test showed he had testicular cancer, and suddenly, at the age of 27 and at the peak of fitness, he realised that he had the biggest battle of his life in front of him. In this compelling and moving memoir, Stubbs recalls his despair at the time and explains how, with the support of family, friends and fans as well as terrific doctors, he pulled through to resume his career at the top. And what a career it was. First he helped Bolton Wanderers climb up two divisions to reach the Premier League in 1995. The following season, he moved to Celtic for a record fee, helping them to break the stranglehold on the league title held by Rangers. After recovering from cancer, he moved to Everton, his hometown club, where he would spend most of the rest of his playing career, lining up alongside (among others) an ageing Paul Gascoigne and an emerging Wayne Rooney. A knee injury forced him to retire in 2008, but he is now on the coaching staff at Everton. A player who has seen the game at all levels, he has also had to contend with the most shocking challenges in life, which makes his story an unmissable read.

Ted Buxton - My Life in Football

Ted Buxton - My Life in Football
Author: Ted Buxton
Publisher: eBook Partnership
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2017-09-07
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1912317273

As a professional football coach and football scout, Edward 'Ted' Buxton is well-known in the world ofprofessional football. He has travelled the world, scouting, assessing and negotiating for players working in theUK, USA and China. But had it not been for football, Ted's prospects would have been no better than otherworking class lads from South London...A tough Docklands upbringing during the Blitz, and subsequent conscription for national service, lead 18-yearoldTed away from playing football, to Malaya and the brutal realities of war. But it is here that he developed hisinstinct to survive: kill or be killed. After the war, knowing he'll never make the big time as a player, Tedrealised his aptitude for coaching and spotting talent.From ordinary butcher boy and soldier, to Chief Scout and assistant to Terry Venables at the England squad, thisinspiring book recounts life alongside many legendary football managers - Gordon Jago, Bobby Robson, BrianClough, Sir Alex Ferguson, Sven-Goeran Erikkson and Arsene Wenger. Not forgetting the numerous players -from George Best to Rodney Marsh, Alan Shearer, Paul Gasgoine, Glenn Hoddle, Ossie Ardiles, Pele,Beckenbauer, Maradona - to name but a few.The book is packed with anecdotes and encounters with the famous and infamous - from Ella Fitzgerald to theKray Twins, and behind-the-scenes at Downing Street and Buckingham Palace.

Graeme Souness – Football: My Life, My Passion

Graeme Souness – Football: My Life, My Passion
Author: Graeme Souness
Publisher: Headline
Total Pages: 237
Release: 2017-10-19
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1472242513

Graeme Souness is a Glasgow Rangers icon, and a Liverpool legend in the same bracket as Kenny Dalglish, Steven Gerrard and Jamie Carragher. He has racked up getting on for fifty years in and around the world of professional football. The game has been his life, and his enduring passion. Souness has written a perceptive and opinionated autobiography. It chronicles one of the most successful and colourful careers in the history of British football. But it also provides an intriguing assessment of the game which has dominated his existence, drawing extensively on his incredibly rich and varied experiences as a player, manager and pundit. The result is a shrewd, incisive and hard-hitting memoir, at times tinged with hindsight and regret, which also grapples with many of the major talking points affecting the game today. It is shot through with Souness' trademark tenacity and wisdom, and with fantastic anecdotes from his glittering career. In many ways, Football: My Life, My Passion is the story of the last half-century of British football writ large.

Fowler

Fowler
Author: Robbie Fowler
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Total Pages: 420
Release: 2009-01-30
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0330508318

Fowler: My Autobiography is a personal and honest account of a phenomenal life in football by goal-poacher Robbie Fowler. Pronounced as the greatest goal scoring talent since Jimmy Greaves, seventeen-year old Robbie Fowler was immediately catapulted to fame and fortune. The thin, baby-faced Toxteth lad, who had trampled the same streets as the rioters, was now a millionaire, an idol and inspiration to every kid who kicked a football. Yet his incredible potential was never quite realized. Injuries and persistent rumours of drug abuse and depression meant that though Fowler remains one of the most celebrated of Premiership stars, he never became the world-beater so many predicted. This is a fascinating and unbelievably frank insight into the beautiful game, taking us behind the closed doors of professional football to expose what really happens at both club and international level. This is a truthful and candid account of an incredible career, examining not just the records and the glory, but the low points and the miseries of a footballing life that many people now believe somewhere, somehow went wrong. Brilliance and controversy have stalked Robbie Fowler from his five goal performance in only his second full game for Liverpool, to his snorting of the touchline in the Merseyside derby. In this utterly compelling autobiography, Robbie Fowler looks back on what was, what wasn’t and what might have been. This is the story of one of the game’s true icons, and the story of the modern game itself.

We Love Football

We Love Football
Author: Adrian Adams
Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand
Total Pages: 125
Release: 2014-04-25
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9522869082

Football is the greatest game in the world. Place can not be found in the world where it is not played. As Eusebio wisely said: ”Anyone can play whether you are poor or rich. All you need is space and a ball”. Football players and coaches are known from colorful language. Most of the quotes in this book are hilarious. Like Zlatan: "Now I'm here, I think the people in Paris will have something else to see besides the Mona Lisa” Many of the quotes are very inspiring as well. Messi gives us a good example: ”Talent and elegance mean nothing without rigor and precision” Let ́s enjoy players and coaches brightest moments.