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MrOneLung
MrOneLung Posts: 27,092
in Other Football and Sports
Am sure been a thread on this before, but can anyone recommend a sports bio?

Dont want something too taxing as just gonna be reading on kindle on the tube.

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  • SheffieldRed
    SheffieldRed Posts: 3,772

    Racing through the dark - David Millar
    or Cascarino's
  • L Block
    L Block Posts: 393
    roy keane's was very good
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 23,124
    Agassi's is very good.
  • Riviera
    Riviera Posts: 8,167
    If you're interested in cricket - Tony Greig: A Reappraisal of English Cricket's Most Controversial Captain by David Tossell. I finished it a month or so before the great man died. A good read.
  • cafctom
    cafctom Posts: 11,397
    Paul Gascoigne's was great, but was released about ten years ago so misses out on everything that has been happening since then.
  • North Lower Neil
    North Lower Neil Posts: 23,124
    Oh and the Robin Friday book is decent too - biography rather than autobiography though.
  • AddickedAthletic
    AddickedAthletic Posts: 834
    Autobiography's i read loads, only books i read. For an easy entertaining read.
    Vinnie Jones
    Barry Fry
  • shirty5
    shirty5 Posts: 19,425
    Paul Lake
  • guinnessaddick
    guinnessaddick Posts: 29,090
    Cascarino's
    Paul McGrath
  • JohnBoyUK
    JohnBoyUK Posts: 9,126
    Jimmy White, Ian Holloway (ok, I realise he's Palace now), Tyler Hamilton, Marcus Trescothick.

    I would have recommended Lance Armstrong's book(s) until recently lol.

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  • man_at_milletts
    man_at_milletts Posts: 5,661
    SheffieldRed said:


    Racing through the dark - David Millar

    Second that. Good insight into his fall from grace.
  • church-lane
    church-lane Posts: 944
    Lance Armstrong - it's not about the bike.
    Written from the heart, a story of a fine upstanding citizen, who would never ever take drugs to enhance performance, and his battle against cancer ( which he probably had).
  • Addickted4life
    Addickted4life Posts: 7,479
    SheffieldRed said:


    Racing through the dark - David Millar
    or Cascarino's

    Millar's one is a great read, I highly recommend it.

    I'm half way through Wiggins one at the moment, its quite good.
  • newyorkaddick
    newyorkaddick Posts: 3,057
    Simon Jordan's book is genuinely an interesting read.
  • MrOneLung
    MrOneLung Posts: 27,092
    Thanks - think I will start with David Millar.
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,976
    Bret Hart - brilliant autobiography
  • StubleyAddick
    StubleyAddick Posts: 2,552
    Bobby Robson
    Louis Saha
    Gary Neville
  • man_at_milletts
    man_at_milletts Posts: 5,661
    MrOneLung said:

    Thanks - think I will start with David Millar.

    Enjoy. Not exactly a sports biography, but a good read all the same is
    'How I Won the Yellow Jumper' By Ned Boulting and his baptism into reporting on the Tour de France. Very enjoyable.



  • McBobbin
    McBobbin Posts: 12,090
    Madiba's Boys wasn't all that well written, but an interesting subject
  • hawksmoor
    hawksmoor Posts: 2,610
    Not so much a bio, but one of the best football books I've read is The Miracle of Castel Di Sangro:

    http://www.amazon.co.uk/Miracle-Castel-Sangro-Joe-McGinniss/dp/075152753X

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  • JohnBoyUK
    JohnBoyUK Posts: 9,126
    Just bumping this one...

    Ledley King's autobiography. Excellent player, shame about the book. He really does comes across as dull as dishwater. One to avoid, sadly.
  • PL54
    PL54 Posts: 10,757
    Paul Merson's book is cack
  • bolloxbolder
    bolloxbolder Posts: 8,045
    Alan Curbishley's






    Only joking!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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