Sir Alex Ferguson is undoubtedly the greatest football manager in living memory. With a reign at Manchester United approaching 25 years, Sir Alex has brought countless trophies and records to Old Trafford and has transformed United into the most popular football club in the world. Born in Glasgow in 1941, Ferguson played for Queen’s Park, Dunfermline and Rangers before retiring in 1974 to begin his managerial career. At Aberdeen, he led a struggling side to the Scottish League championship and the 1983 European Cup Winners’ Cup. But it is at Manchester United that Sir Alex has achieved world domination. Joining the club in November 1986, Ferguson immediately set about improving the players’ discipline and strengthening the squad. Things didn’t go exactly to plan in Sir Alex’s first few years at United, but his signing of Eric Cantona for a bargin GBP1.2million in 1992 helped to secure their first League trophy in 26 years. An incredible run of success followed, shaped by the emergence of Ryan Giggs, Gary Neville, Paul Scholes, David Beckham and Nicky Butt. And Fergie’s finest moment was still to come – in 1999, when Manchester United romped to an unprecedented Treble of Premier League, FA Cup and Champions League trophies. He was knighted the same year for his services to football. Under Sir Alex, United have been Premier League champions 12 times, surpassing arch-rivals Liverpool’s league title haul in the process, and have reached four Champions League finals, winning the trophy on two occasions. This in-depth biography charts the unstoppable rise of the Premier League’s longest-serving manager.
Amazon – It’s All About The Money
Six close friends, all from University, graduate and begin life working in the real world only to find out how repetitive corporate life can be. After climbing the business ladder for 2 years, Lee decides enough is enough and comes up with a list of 6 tasks that if all completed will make them a cool £1million within 12 months. Everyone agrees to Lee’s plan after a bit of persuading, and the chase is on! The last idea is kept secret by Lee as a banker for the £1million should all else fail – and is not shown until all the other ideas have been completed. The screenplay follows the 6 friends trying to become millionaires, and the inevitable situations that happen. The stories that happen along the way make the plot funny, exciting, explosive, realistic, romantic before the last idea is shown at the end – Lee has been cleverly conducting business over the last 12 months of everyone and everything that has occurred……..
written in screenplay format
Amazon – Longy – Booze, Brawls, Sex and Scandal: The Autobiography of the Wild Man of Rugby League
Sean Long is Super League’s No 1 bad boy and when it comes to off-the-pitch madness, no-one comes close. Not just for rugby league fans, this book is a must-read for anyone with a taste for life on the wild side. Here, the flamboyant Hull and St Helens superstar tells his hilarious, shocking and explosive life story. Longy – the only player to win the Lance Todd Trophy three times – tells the inside story of THAT bet against his own team and exposes secrets that will shock the rugby league establishment to its core. In his own words, he describes with startling honesty the hell-raising experiences of his rags-to-riches journey. But it isn’t all about his wild reputation – Long has also had an incredible rugby league career, winning every major honour in the game at club level as well as notching up 15 caps for Great Britain and another five for the England side. He has twice set the Super League record for the most points scored in a season, with 284 in 1999 and a staggering 352 in 2000.
Amazon – Celtic and Me
Dominik Diamond is never short of an opinion. And in his opinion Celtic FC is the greatest football club in the known universe. But through the years, his forthright opinions and his complete inability to keep his mouth shut have got him into huge amounts of trouble. Now, in Celtic & Me – Confessions from the Jungle, Dominik Diamond tells the story of how Celtic Football Club has been a fundamental part of his life. There’s the part he played in Martin O’Neill becoming Celtic manager, why he was banned from Celtic TV, which Old Firm manager is best at pub trivia machines, and which Ibrox legend sinisterly threatened to out him on live TV for being a teenage Rangers fan. And there’s the night his love of Celtic almost cost him his life – and his kebab. Celtic & Me – Confessions from the Jungle is the entertaining and controversial story of one man who simply refused to shut up. No matter what kind of jungle he was crashing through.
Amazon – Saturday’s Heroes – Skinheads, Sex And Football Violence!
It is all right for the mugs in their executive boxes and expensive seats to moan about football hooliganism. They’ve never had to defend their end against rival fans or fight their way back to a train station after an away game. But skinhead Paul West and his skinhead crew don’t care what others think of them anyway. They live in a violent football hooligan world that sees them do battle with football casual gangs, other skinheads and rival supporters. A world that is slowly torn apart by football violence, a certain girl, and betrayal. Richard Allen style pulp fiction!
Amazon – Top Dog
Hooligan gang leader Billy Evans is above the law. He knows it, and they know it. And when you regard the law as an irrelevance, all kinds of opportunities can open up for you. Especially when you begin to exert your increasingly powerful influence over the back street pubs and clubs of East London.
So when Billy gets the chance to make some serious money very quickly by helping a football club with an insurance scam, he grabs it with both hands.
But he’s about to discover that this time, he’s finally pushed his luck too far. And this time it isn’t the law he’ll have to contend with. It’s something far more dangerous.
Amazon – Red: My Autobiography
No player has been more synonymous with the glory years of Manchester United Football Club over the past two decades than right-back Gary Neville. An Old Trafford regular since he attended his first match at the age of six, captain of the brilliant 1992 FA Youth Cup-winning team that became known as ‘Fergie’s Fledglings’, outspoken representative of MUFC, Neville is the ultimate one-club man. He has been at the heart of it all and, at the end of an amazing career, is now ready to tell it all.Authoritative, insightful, fearless and never less than 100% honest, no-one has better credentials for documenting the story of United under Sir Alex Ferguson. Neville reveals the behind-the-scenes secrets of his early days with the likes of Giggs, Scholes and his best mate David Beckham; what it was like to play with Cantona, Keane and Ronaldo; the Treble in 1999; and of course an entire career of playing for the greatest manager in the game.Then there are all his experiences with England, from being the youngest starter at Euro 96 when football came home, to the ups and downs of five major championships and seven managers – Venables, Hoddle, Wilkinson, Keegan, Eriksson, McClaren and Capello. There are opinions and analysis on Gazza, Rooney, WAGs and the true story of the FA and Rio Ferdinand.For twenty glorious years, Gary Neville has worn his heart on his sleeve. This is his story.
Amazon – Overly Medicated
Welcome to ‘Overly Medicated’: A collision Between One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest and Shameless.
Overly Medicated is a social biography based on my life story and is set against the backdrop of the West Midlands. It is set over a period of three decades starting in 1987 and uses Gary Walker as its feature character. The book follows Walkers path through life from hooligan to husband, his battles against drug addiction and mental illness and his attempts to escape the cobwebs of his tortured past. Overly Medicated recounts the story of a man scarred from the break up of his marriage, resulting in him raising their only daughter as a single parent. His own attempted murder and the termination of his unborn child. Walker finally hits rock bottom and is admitted onto a psychiatric unit after a failed suicide attempt. Overly Medicated details his fight back from depression and addiction and recounts his pathway to becoming a Registered Psychiatric Nurse and the manager of a Psychiatric Rehabilitation Home. It exposes the hypocrisy encased in the mental health system and tells the story from both sides of the divide.
Overly Medicated is a story of love, triumph, violence, drug and alcohol addiction, fortitude and friendship. It contains a social narrative on Britain via the author’s individual standpoint and reflects on his political and social development. The book is aimed at making the reader, laugh, cry and ruminate over the experiences of one troubled man. This book is sad, funny, honest and true. Overly Medicated is a rollercoaster of contrasting emotions; I hope you enjoy the ride.
