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The fantastic footballers and coaches are rarely glimpsed up close. They shield themselves from the tabloids, cover their personalities behind professionalism, and in the words of the cliche, 'do their communicating on the pitch'. This book gets up near them. The Football Men is not really a series of star profiles, and it doesn't try to unearth secrets in the players' private lives. Rather, it portrays these men as three-dimensional humans. It describes their upbringings, the sports cultures they grew up in, just how they play, and the baggage that they bring with their relationships at the job. This multimillion-pound, multinational world is mostly inhabited by common men. The profiles in this book are sometimes funny, but never breathless or sensational. Some of the profiles in this book are based on interviews; others will be the results of energy the author put in with see your face; sometimes the profile is a tale of a country. All are fascinating and shed light on their subject to show you things you wouldn't expect. In one of the fantastic sports writers of our own time, this is a penetrating and surprising assortment of articles on the figures that have defined the modern wearing world.
