Only a Game?: The Diary of a Professional Footballer

ISBN-13: 9780140102901 / Angielski / Miękka / 1987 / 208 str.

Eamon Dunphy

Opis

The classic inside account of a season at a professional football club. Midfield player Eamon Dunphy charts the progress of Millwall during a season that begins with high hopes and ends with him on the transfer list. Populated with extraordinary characters and filled with high drama, Only a Game? is a riveting read as well as being an exceptional insight into professional sport. "The best and most authentic memoir by a professional footballer" Brian Glanvill

O autorze

Eamon Dunphy was a professional footballer in the 1960s and early 1970s, with Manchester United and then mainly Millwall, also winning 23 caps for Ireland. He subsequently wrote columns on both football and current events, presented on radio for several stations including Today FM, Newstalk and RTÉ Radio 1, and regularly appeared as a football analyst on Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ). He has also written a biography of Matt Busby and ghost-wrote the autobiography of Roy Keane. He lives in Dublin, and describes himself as having been "a good player, not a great player".