Kerry Dixon Up Front My Autobiography

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Big, blond & a goal-scoring machine, Kerry Dixon delighted Chelsea & England fans during the 1980s. Yet his fall from grace, from the pinnacle of a playing career that had few equals, has been, by his own admission, spectacular.

Kerry's life in recent years has been bedeviled with problems with gambling, drugs &, worst of all, a prison sentence in 2015 after he was convicted of grievous bodily harm following a fight in a pub. At that point, one of football's golden boys finally hit rock bottom. This book is the honest, unflinching account of his rise & fall, & of the new life he is now slowly & patiently building.

His memories of playing in a more robust era of the game, before the days of multi-million-pound salaries & all the rest of the modern football circus, will appeal to plenty of nostalgic football fans, as well as to all those who remember him as one of the game's all-time greats.

Equally, his unflinching recollections of his darkest days, culminating in his time in prison, are about as far from the Beautiful Game as anyone can imagine, & as fascinating as they are sometimes uncomfortable. In the end, however, his stunningly successful career at Chelsea has ensured that he remains loved by fans, despite his troubles.

The world is all too familiar with tales of once-famous sportsmen & women falling from grace. Kerry Dixon's story, however, is unique at once for its flashes of humour in adversity, its clear-eyed reflections on a different age of football, when leading players could all too easily be treated as disposable, & for its humility. For Kerry Dixon, as this often moving autobiography shows, the only way is up.

Perfect gift for the die hard Chelsea & England fans, football lovers across the world, uniting together in this frenzy of a footballers life.