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fartcatcher · Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2010 11:13 pm Post subject: Sporting Autobiographies

I read quite a lot even though most them are poo. I suppose it's unreasonable to expect outstanding sportsmen/women to be able to write well. At least they have one talent - one more than i've got

Exceptions are:

Matt Seaton - The Escape Artist. Matt Seaton's a cyclist and journalist. The book describes his obsession with turning himself from an above average to a top performer. Very raw and honest.

Ellen McArthur - Taking on the World. Story of her first major race - The Vendee Globe - when she was 24. Writes incredibly vividly.

Eamonn Dunphy - Only A Game - Diary of his 1973–4 season at Millwall.
Football at the blunt end. Displays the wit and humour that has made him a legend in Ireland
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lebowski · The Fish Of Many Names Joined: 12 Sep 2008 Posts: 4853

best one I've read is....

Foo Whiter · Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2010 12:27 am Post subject:

Jack Charltons is the best I've every read. The only book I couldn't put down.
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Forest · Posted: Thu Mar 04, 2010 12:40 am Post subject:

Two pages of Steven Gerrards has put me off sporting biographies forever, his ghost writer wants shooting.
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Dock · Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2010 10:57 am Post subject:

bearing · Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2010 5:11 pm Post subject:

Forest · Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2010 9:48 pm Post subject:

Dock · Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 10:33 am Post subject:

Kin' ell Forsythe Saga, thats a bad run of books. I love Bez to bits, but Mark Twain he ain't.

Most boring Autobiog I read was Lee Chapmans. Babakaka.

bearing · Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 10:57 am Post subject:

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Foo Whiter · Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 2:01 pm Post subject:

I won't read Lorimers after he's become Bates puppet some of the stuff he comes out with nowadays is totally embarrassing & I've lost all respect for the man.Dock if ive still got it I'll send you it the charlton book that is
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Though often he has sought
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To hold the terrible power
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But me, I am just a man

smiling badger · One of the Gang!! Joined: 12 Sep 2008 Posts: 2803

Read Hunters which was good, Grays which to be honest bored me.
Fowlers was interesting just to see what he thought of Leeds.
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Dock · Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 3:34 pm Post subject:

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Thought this thread was on sportsmen's autobiogs. Lorimer's is a good read, it's nothing to do with his newspaper column where surprise surprise he isn't slagging the club or the chairman off, in a paper which said chairman would ban at the drop of a hat

He's a fence-sitter in the paper but his punditry is always pretty good tbh, imho, he says what he thinks then.
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Forest · Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 5:45 pm Post subject:

Mol · Guest

Or friends.

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