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How to Be a Footballer
- Narrated by: Peter Crouch
- Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
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Summary
**A Sunday Times Sports Book of the Year**
**Shortlisted for the National Book Awards**
**Longlisted for the Telegraph Sports Book Awards Autobiography of the Year**
You become a footballer because you love football. And then you are a footballer, and you're suddenly in the strangest, most baffling world of all. A world where one team-mate comes to training in a bright red suit with matching top-hat, cane and glasses, without any actual glass in them, and another has so many sports cars they forget they have left a Porsche at the train station. Even when their surname is incorporated in the registration plate.
So walk with me into the dressing-room, to find out which players refuse to touch a football before a game, to discover why a load of millionaires never have any shower-gel, and to hear what Cristiano Ronaldo says when he looks at himself in the mirror.
We will go into post-match interviews, make fools of ourselves on social media and try to ensure that we never again pay £250 for a haircut that should have cost a tenner. We'll be coached and cajoled by Harry Redknapp, upset Rafa Benitez and be soothed by the sound of an accordion played by Sven-Goran Eriksson's assistant Tord Grip. There will be some very bad music and some very bad decisions.
I am Peter Crouch. This is How To Be A Footballer. Shall we?
Critic reviews
'Very funny on almost every page, wonderfully self-deprecating and very sharp on the ludicrous behaviour of the modern player' - Sunday Times
'The funniest man in British sport' - Metro
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- Jackie Nobbs
- 20-08-19
Fantastic
Great Audio book kept me listening and good narration by Peter Crouch would definitely recommend
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- Gareme
- 16-08-19
excellent stuff
A funny honest view from a seemingly genuine guy...even if you know nothing much about football it is a great take on modern life and celebrity
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- Amazon Customer
- 01-12-18
Best footy book I’ve read in ages
Really enjoyed this! It offers a different insight into the crazy footballing world and Crouchy is the perfect tour guide to take you on that adventure!
Well written, well read, just good fun!
Nice swan Crouchy laaaa
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- C. Taylor
- 10-01-20
A great book about a world too bonkers to believe
Taking a step back you soon realise how legendary a footballer Peter Crouch is, and how wide spread his knowledge and experience in the game spans. So who better to walk us through a world so few of us will ever see first hand.
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- alex mcfarlane
- 30-11-18
Outstanding!
The fact that Peter Crouch is your narrator only adds to this gem of a book. It's not done in diary form as a life story but in sections as inane as haircuts and clothing.
This only adds to its brilliance, literally laugh out loud funny. No bragging although not scared to admit that he's had his "big time" moments.
Definitely the type of big daft mate you'd love to go for a few beers with.
Entertaining throughout, it's as funny as a sports book gets. Please, please, please go into management because this is the natural successor to Ian Holloway.
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- AquaMan69
- 16-11-22
Great listen
Funny and interesting, classic Crouchy!
A real insight into the world of a footballer, in the words of someone who tells a great story. Couldn’t stop listening to this one.
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- Colin
- 20-10-22
A good read
I enjoyed this book as it tells so much about the game you don’t hear, what goes on in the hotels on the team coach etc, I will read his last est book next
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- HC ROCK
- 12-10-22
brilliant
I realy loved it, Very funny and honest. I was gutted when it finished.
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- K. mc
- 30-09-22
top bloke
not a fan of any teams he has played for but I really like him and really enjoyed this book and also respect to Peter for reading it as well
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- Amazon Customer
- 12-08-22
Great listen and funny
Enjoyed the book and we’ll narrated by Peter, he made it enjoyable and funny, well worth your time and money
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