
Lee Howey was inspired to write this book after reading the autobiographies of other footballers These were household names with glory-laden careers whose exploits on the pitch will never be forgotten Yet despite access to such fabulous raw material they have mostly produced bloody awful books
- predictable plodding repetitive self-important & just plain boring They may have been better footballers than Howey but he has written the most entertaining football memoir you are ever likely to read Not that Lee Howey's football career is in any way undistinguished He won the First Division Championship with his beloved Sunderland in 1995 & played in the Premier League against some of the most celebrated names in English football including Jurgen Klinsmann Ryan Giggs Eric Cantona Gianfranco Zola Peter Schmeichel Ian Wright Alan Shearer & Fabrizio Ravanelli
- & not always unsuccessfully It wasn't all assaults upon the kneecaps on wet Tuesday nights in Hartlepool (though there is plenty of that too) This honest thoughtful & hilarious book may not end with an unforgettable game at Wembley or a 100th England cap However it will amuse & delight fans of all teams in its portrait of the game of football before it disappeared up its own backside