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Arise Sir David Beckham: Footballer, Celebrity, Legend - The Biography of Britain's Best Loved
Sporting Icon traces David Beckham's incredible life starting from his early years playing
for Manchester United at the age of 17 up to his present day success playing for Major League
Soccer's Los Angeles Galaxy squad.
Clough biographies have tended to be personal recollections by journalists who knew or were used by
the great man at the time like Duncan Hamilton or Tony Francis. Wilson is a reporter from
Sunderland who now writes for the Guardian and this claims to be the first full biography
of Clough from birth to death.
Since posting yesterday on the commemorative ("Offside") 50p coin from the Royal Mint (UK), I have
had a few requests for more information. I had done a little searching, by no means exhaustive,
after I read some news reports, and...
Larry Lloyd's Hard Man: Hard Game is one of the best accounts of Forest's golden years
that I have read. I think Lloyd benefits hugely from having a female ghost writer. At the risk of
being sexist, it just allows one of the hardest men I have ever met to admit to all sorts of things
that I am not sure he would if he'd have played it safe and used a male sports journalist to help
him write the book [.
