Back from the Brink: The Autobiography

ISBN-13: 9780099499558 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 2007 / 432 str.

Paul McGrath

Opis

Paul McGrath is one of Ireland's best loved footballers. But behind the glamour of life in great clubs, McGrath wrestled with a range of destructive emotions. This is a story that runs from a childhood spent in Dublin's orphanages to the pain of two marriage break-ups and alienation from his children.

Recenzje

As survivor's tales go, this is brutalist epic...McGrath's narrative has a stark honesty. Sean O'Hagan The Observer Sport Monthly

O autorze

Paul McGrath was born on December 4, 1959. He joined St Patricks Athletic, Dublin, as a teenager before joining Manchester United in 1982. He won the FA Cup with United and was twice voted Player of the Year before being sold to Aston Villa for £400,000 in 1989, where he was voted Player of the Year four times. He was also PFA Player of the Year in 1993. He also played for Derby and Sheffield United, before retiring in 1998.

McGrath also won 83 caps for the Republic of Ireland, appeared at the 1990 and 1994 World Cups, and was Ireland's first black captain.