I think it’s a massively ignorant generalisation to call football players thick as shit. There are plenty of intelligent football players as is evidenced by the many intelligent tacticians, coaches and other senior management roles they hold post career.
It was targeted at the vast majority of professional footballers. There’s no way a modern day footballer could write that passage the way it’s been written.
That Frank Lampard thing is funny. Wasn’t it that he was the only Chelsea player at the time to have passed any GCSEs and therefore that qualified him as the brains of the squad
That said I like Lampard and he seems a smart enough guy
I can’t find anything to say he scored 12 A grades, but it does seem he passed 12 GCSEs which is more than most so I stand corrected I had it in my head that he had about 1 or 2 (one of them famously being Latin)
Not so much Pique, mate. Just the whole ‘I’m a footballer, I’m going to milk it for what it’s worth by releasing a biography before the age of 30, making uninteresting stories sound remotely interesting’
It’s the life we chose by following these fellas week in, week out, but some of these anecdotes would be better serialized in one of the daily rags. Seeing it on hardback is just a bit too much to stomach.
They’d be writing themselves. Warts and all. A unique experience. An effort. I’d appreciate that.
I think there are very few footballers who have a genuine “story to tell”, so to speak. Reading the stories of footballers of a foregone age would appeal to me (Jimmy Greaves, Wrighty, Adams, Merse had problems off field, someone mentioned Socrates being a Dr- worth a read). They’d be books I’d read as biographies