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The Boy On The Shed: A Remarkable Sporting Memoir With A Foreword By
Alan Shearer
The Boy on the Shed is a story of love and fate At 16 Paul Ferris becomes Newcastle United's youngest-ever first-teamer Like many a tricky winger from Northern Ireland he is hailed as 'the new George Best'As a player and later a physio and member of the Magpies' managerial team Paul's career acquaints him not only with Kevin Keegan Kenny Dalglish and Bobby Robson Ruud Gullit Paul Gascoigne and Alan Shearer but also with injury insecurity and disappointmentYet this autobiography is more than a tale of the vagaries of sporting fortune It begins during 'The Troubles' in a working-class Catholic family in the Protestant town of Lisburn near Belfast After a childhood scarred by his mother's illness and sectarian hatred Paul meets the love of his life his future wife Geraldine Talented and
carefree on the pitch shy and anxious off it he earns a tilt at stardom His first spell at Newcastle turns sour as does his return as a physio although obtaining a Masters degree shows him what he could achieve away from footballWhen Paul qualifies as a barrister a career in Law beckons Instead a craving to prove himself in the game draws him back to St James' Park as part of Shearer's management triumvirate - with unfortunate consequencesWritten with brutal candour dark humour and consummate style The Boy on the Shed is a riveting and moving account of a life less ordinary
carefree on the pitch shy and anxious off it he earns a tilt at stardom His first spell at Newcastle turns sour as does his return as a physio although obtaining a Masters degree shows him what he could achieve away from footballWhen Paul qualifies as a barrister a career in Law beckons Instead a craving to prove himself in the game draws him back to St James' Park as part of Shearer's management triumvirate - with unfortunate consequencesWritten with brutal candour dark humour and consummate style The Boy on the Shed is a riveting and moving account of a life less ordinary
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