Full name: Left Foot Forward: A Year in the Life of a Journeyman Footballer

Author: Garry Nelson Year: 1995 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Sports, Football, Non Fiction, Biographies Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780747251828 0747251827

Garry Nelson is not one of football's household names yet he made almost 650 League appearances in a career stretching back to 1979. This book describes the 1994-5 season at Charlton Athletic but it could be any in which he reveals the ups and downs of what it is like to be an ordinary professional player. There are the injuries, the battles for selection, and the worries that age is catching up on him, which would mean the end of his career. But there are also the occasional triumphs, such as when he was appointed captain and scored the winning goal in a televised match. Written with wit, intelligence and insight, Left Foot Forward reveals far more about what it is really like to be a footballer than any number of ghosted autobiographies by the big stars. It is destined to become a classic of football writing. Similar books: My Manchester United Years by Bobby Charlton My Father And Other Working Class Football Heroes by Gary Imlach Instant Replay by Jerry Kramer Namath by Mark Kriegel Slow Getting Up by Nate Jackson A Few Seconds of Panic by Stefan Fatsis The Dark Side of the Game by Tim Green When Pride Still Mattered by David Maraniss The Education of a Coach by David Halberstam The Art of Smart Football by Chris B. Brown The Blind Side by Michael Lewis Paper Lion by George Plimpton Provided You Don't Kiss Me by Duncan Hamilton Winning Ugly by Brad Gilbert Racing Through the Dark by David Millar Play Their Hearts Out by George Dohrmann When Nothing Else Matters by Michael Leahy Belichick by Ian O'Connor Mad Ducks and Bears by George Plimpton The Life You Imagine by Derek Jeter