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  1. Gordon Owen

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    Merson
    Gazza
    Keane then read Fergies straight after and see who's lying..
    Ray Parlour
    Just finished Warnocks
    Got Tony Adam's to read
    Jimmy Bullard
    John Dennis

    They're my favourites off the top of my head.
     
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    Martin Johnson was OK
    Alex Ferguson’s fist one was good
    Enjoyed Alan Sugar too although according to him, he was responsible for almost every major thing for last 40 years.
     
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    Good read in my opinion.
     
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    alan ball's good and keegans, they give you an insight into the backroom shenanigans. stuart pearce is ace no love lost between him and gullitt
     
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    Sir Francis Chichester and Willie John McBride were two of the best I've read.
     
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    Tyler Hamilton - The Secret Race is superb. Bit of a mix between his own autobiography & what was going on in the sport with doping. He was team mates with Armstrong for several of his TDF wins & then Hamilton left to become a team leader & to try & win the race himself.
     
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    But different to the other suggestions on here, but Megan Phelps-Roper, former member of the notorious Westboro Baptist Church. She wrote a fascinating auto-biography that is extremely eye-opening.
     
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    Highest Duty.
     
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    Anthony Kiedis - Scar Tissue
     
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    I find it difficult to read books.
    You have to be calm to read a book.
    Concentrate and don’t be easily distracted.
    I’m easily bored.
    Usually takes me 6 months to a year to read a book.
    I like reading the iPhone - because you can easily flick between subjects.
     
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    Have you tried audiobooks?

    You have to concentrate still, but you can close your eyes and relax and just listen
     
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    I'm not a big reader at all, but of the ones I've read, my 2 favourites would be Simon Jordan's and Tony Cascarino's. Both brilliant reads. I enjoyed Lars Leese's. I didn't particularly get engrossed in Gazza's or Zlatan's.

    Simon Jordan's was so good though that it's the only autobiography I've had that I would consider reading again. The first part is about how he made his money through mobile phones, the rest is purely about football really, with a couple of Barnsley mentions in there for good measure.
     
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    At Jr. Didcot Red 1's wedding. His best man, who happened to be Jr. Didcot Red 2, Quoted words of wisdom from a book entitled "Boycott on Marriage" complete with a copy of said book. Quite a number of the guests believed it was real.
     
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    Sporting autobiography’s I’ve read recently:
    Spun Out- The Shane Warne Story
    John McEnroe - Serious
    and André Agassie’s that I’ve forgotten the title of.
    McEnroe’s and Agassie’s especially changed my opinion of them.
    Nancy Wake by Peter Fitzsimons is a cracking biography of a war heroine. Born in New Zealand, raised in Australia and trained in the Uk to fight the nazis in France. Incredibly brave, incredible lady.
     
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    Worth a read-

    Kurt Cobain (biography not autobiography, it's difficult to write when your brains are all over floor...)
    Stephen Fry
    John Cleese
    Brian Blessed

    Avoid like the plague-

    Freddy Flintoff
     
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    I had no idea that Agassi hated tennis so much. I agree the way he came over in the book was nothing like I thought he was.
    Might try McEnroe s cos I hated all his ranting on court but as a commentator he seems very reasonable
     
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    The Nancy Wake One takes my fancy given your take on it , thanks
     
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    The gazza one is very funny on his antics with Jimmy five bellies,
     
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    Comedic ones I've enjoyed were the Frank Skinner ones and James Acaster. I tend to buy whichever autobiographies are cheap ready for when we go on holiday as they are usually easy reading.
     
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    Only (tried) listened to one. I’d already read Dickie Birds which was thoroughly enjoyable. But the audio version my mate leant me was not The Best thing Dickie attempted. Sounds awful. Gave up 5 minutes in.
     
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