/ Lead title The searingly honest and at times harrowing autobiography of the former Liverpool, Aston Villa and England striker. Exposes the dark and often seedy world hidden behind the glamorous facade of professional football. / A tale of celebrity obsession and excess told through the life of a professional footballer -- a unique genre-breaker in sports autobiographies. / Collymore is an intelligent raconteur and lucid communicator who comes across very well in person -- and he continues to have a large following across the country. / Despite his retirement from football, Stan continues to attract attention, most recently from his spell on Channel 5's The Farm.
Stan Collymore was born in Stone, Staffordshire in January 1971. He has played professional football for Crystal Palace, Southend, Nottingham Forest, Liverpool, Aston Villa, Fulham, Leicester and Bradford City, and won three England caps in the nineties. He retired from the game in 2001 and was until recently an expert football summariser on Radio 5 Live. Oliver Holt has been Chief Sports Writer at the Mirror since April 2002. He is one of the most talented and respected of the younger breed of sportswriters covering the game, his former Editor Piers Morgan saying of him: 'We're delighted to have the real number one on board'.
'Once out of the game he had long seemed anxious to escape, Collymore became singularly placed to articulate some of the madness that attends it.' Observer
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