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Footballer (auto)biographies you wish existed

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SausageVince

SausageVince

end of an era
I'm wondering what footballer biographies you lot would like to see.

Apparently Pirlo's 'I think therefore I play' couldn't find a London publisher so a Scottish publisher (backpage publishing, I think) took it on and ended up selling >90,000 copies. Interest in Pirlo's story from English language customers doesn't surprise me, but the mainstream publishing houses failed to understand the market.

I think the market for footballer biographies is becoming a bit more exotic. I think the reasons for this are, both at once, globalisation and a fatigue with the usual shit like rooney, lampard, or gerrard books. Folk want Robert Enke, Roy Keane, or, dare I say, Joey Barton. It has to have something honest and brave about it.

Anyway, I'd love to know of the unwritten biographies my TFC comrades want to read. I want to read a George Weah one... chew on that
 
I digress a tadge,but a good one that does exist is Phil Stant's.
He's a journeyman footballer who played for Fulham and Cardiff among others.Really grass roots and a million miles away from multi millionaire modern prem footballer.
Served in the Army as well,was in the ordnance corp and attached to the SAS.
Funny as hell and really interesting.
 
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I'd like to read our old player Benny's ( BAE ), seems like a right character, and was one of my favourite players during his time here.
 
A proper in-depth biography of Arthur Rowe (I known there is a small more pamphlet written on him). Having typed that why not everyone one of our Trophy winning managers.
Cameron
McWilliams
Rowe
(Nicholson) - Already written
Burkinshaw
Venables (already written)
Ramos (Doubt I'd buy this)

The other thing I'd love to see written and that is a biography on "The Tottenham Way" our philosophy. If you are to look at the most successful periods of our history you can trace the same philosophy (Style of play, short passes, pass and move, young local talent, academy etc., etc....). It would be nice to have this written from an analytics perspective also putting into context of the type of football played at that period too, e.g. 5 or 6 forwards.

The Tottenham Way is a genuine label given to us, following from an interview with McWilliam (or was it Cameron??). It stuck ever since and since then many other clubs have copied it back it is self proclaimed, a marketing trick for the fans. Time we educated the new influx of fans about what it is, when, why how it was given. Shuts up all the pretenders too.

Probably come back to this thread with a ton of others missing.
 
Billy the fish

I mean , he was a fish & became a fucking goalkeeper, adapted to breath in air , could float & spoke English .

How did he even know what football was??

It’s an incredible story
 
Alfie Conn one of the kings of White Hart Lane remarkable really for him to get that acolade as he played less than 50 games for us. He was a breath of fresh air at Spurs as the mid seventies were a bit dull and the fans took to him straight away. I remember being at Cheshunt one summer when you were allowed to just walk in and watch them train which we did daily. Billy Nick was his usual friendly self and recognised the fact that we had travelled a long way just to watch the players train (we used to go from Kent to London Bridge then walk to Liverpool St then up to Cheshunt) and he got AC to come over for a chat. The players were always approachable if you didn't thrust an autograph book under their noses straight after they had trained they would be fine. Alfie Conn always took the time to ask about our journey and how long it took us and genuinely appreciated the effort. Others like that were Terry Naylor, Stevie P, Keith Osgood, John Duncan and young Terry Lee (rip). They were great times and you felt part of Tottenham and i knew all the stats about all the players, where they were born etc whereas now i have no clue and frankly no interest. The day we relegated the C word was probably Alfie Conns best performance in a Spurs shirt as 50,000 delirious Tottenham fans celebrated and it's day i will never forget. I am getting dewey eyed here, i'd better head off to Wembley.............
 
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Alfie Conn one of the kings of White Hart Lane remarkable really for him to get that acolade as he played less than 50 games for us. He was a breath of fresh air at Spurs as the mid seventies were a bit dull and the fans took to him straight away. I remember being at Cheshunt one summer when you were allowed to just walk in and watch them train which we did daily. Billy Nick was his usual friendly self and recognised the fact that we had travelled a long way just to watch the players train (we used to go from Kent to London Bridge then walk to Liverpool St then up to Cheshunt) and he got AC to come over for a chat. The players were always approachable if you didn't thrust an autograph book under their noses straight after they had trained they would be fine. Alfie Conn always took the time to ask about our journey and how long it took us and genuinely appreciated the effort. Others like that were Terry Naylor, Stevie P, Keith Osgood, John Duncan and young Terry Lee (rip). They were great times and you felt part of Tottenham and i knew all the stats about all the players, where they were born etc whereas now i have no clue and frankly no interest. The day we relegated the C word was probably Alfie Conns best performance in a Spurs shirt as 50,000 delirious Tottenham fans celebrated and it's day i will never forget. I am getting dewey eyed here, i'd better head off to Wembley.............
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Lovely, thanks
 
Tottenham Loyal said:
Alfie Conn one of the kings of White Hart Lane remarkable really for him to get that acolade as he played less than 50 games for us. He was a breath of fresh air at Spurs as the mid seventies were a bit dull and the fans took to him straight away. I remember being at Cheshunt one summer when you were allowed to just walk in and watch them train which we did daily. Billy Nick was his usual friendly self and recognised the fact that we had travelled a long way just to watch the players train (we used to go from Kent to London Bridge then walk to Liverpool St then up to Cheshunt) and he got AC to come over for a chat. The players were always approachable if you didn't thrust an autograph book under their noses straight after they had trained they would be fine. Alfie Conn always took the time to ask about our journey and how long it took us and genuinely appreciated the effort. Others like that were Terry Naylor, Stevie P, Keith Osgood, John Duncan and young Terry Lee (rip). They were great times and you felt part of Tottenham and i knew all the stats about all the players, where they were born etc whereas now i have no clue and frankly no interest. The day we relegated the C word was probably Alfie Conns best performance in a Spurs shirt as 50,000 delirious Tottenham fans celebrated and it's day i will never forget. I am getting dewey eyed here, i'd better head off to Wembley.............
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Good post mate.

Whilst not the same as the Cheshunt days I'd still recommend going to the new place to watch academy matches, whilst you don't get to see the first team any more, just going to training centre and smelling a football pitch has re-connected me and reminded me we are a football team (smell of the grass at the training centre), I know that might sound a bit odd but what with the modern game, and fans so far away from the players and all clubs interactions via social media etc. Going there just connects back with football, it's undiluted.
 
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