{"product_id":"9781785039782","title":"How to Be a Footballer by Peter Crouch","description":"\u003cb\u003e'Very funny on almost every page, wonderfully self-deprecating and very sharp on the ludicrous behaviour of the modern player' - \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 'The funniest man in British sport' - Metro\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e**A \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e Sports Book of the Year**\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e**Shortlisted for the National Book Awards**\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e**Longlisted for the \u003ci\u003eTelegraph\u003c\/i\u003e Sports Book Awards Autobiography of the Year**\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e You become a footballer because you love football. And then you are a footballer, and you're suddenly in the strangest, most baffling world of all. A world where one team-mate comes to training in a bright red suit with matching top-hat, cane and glasses, without any actual glass in them, and another has so many sports cars they forget they have left a Porsche at the train station. Even when their surname is incorporated in the registration plate.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e So walk with me into the dressing-room, to find out which players refuse to touch a football before a game, to discover why a load of millionaires never have any shower-gel, and to hear what Cristiano Ronaldo says when he looks at himself in the mirror.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e We will go into post-match interviews, make fools of ourselves on social media and try to ensure that we never again pay e250 for a haircut that should have cost a tenner. We'll be coached and cajoled by Harry Redknapp, upset Rafa Benitez and be soothed by the sound of an accordion played by Sven-Goran Eriksson's assistant Tord Grip. There will be some very bad music and some very bad decisions.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e I am Peter Crouch. This is \u003ci\u003eHow To Be A Footballer\u003c\/i\u003e. Shall we?","brand":"Stirring Pages","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65993780724061,"sku":null,"price":17.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1077\/7827\/7725\/files\/15012653482823.jpg?v=1790079126","url":"https:\/\/stirringpages.com\/products\/9781785039782","provider":"Stirring Pages","version":"1.0","type":"link"}