Back from the Brink: The Autobiography
by Paul McGrath | Biographies & Memoirs | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 009949955x Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 009949955x Global Overview for this book
Registered by Blaze30 of Morecambe, Lancashire United Kingdom on 1/13/2009
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From the blurb:
Paul McGrath is Ireland's best loved sportsman and also its least understood. An iconic football presence during a professional career stretching over 14 years, he played for his country in the European Championship finals of 1988 and the World Cup finals of 1990 and 1994. But, behind the implied glamour of life in the employ of great English clubs like Manchester United and Aston Villa, McGrath wrestled with a range of destructive emotions that made his success in the game little short of miraculous.
That story has until now never been told. It is a story that runs from a hard, hidden childhood spent in Dublin's orphanages all the way to the pain of two marriage break-ups, his all-too public struggle with alcoholism, and the surreal highs and calamitous lows of a life lived habitually on the edge of chaos.
It is not just a football story. It is an extraordinary human story.
From the blurb:
Paul McGrath is Ireland's best loved sportsman and also its least understood. An iconic football presence during a professional career stretching over 14 years, he played for his country in the European Championship finals of 1988 and the World Cup finals of 1990 and 1994. But, behind the implied glamour of life in the employ of great English clubs like Manchester United and Aston Villa, McGrath wrestled with a range of destructive emotions that made his success in the game little short of miraculous.
That story has until now never been told. It is a story that runs from a hard, hidden childhood spent in Dublin's orphanages all the way to the pain of two marriage break-ups, his all-too public struggle with alcoholism, and the surreal highs and calamitous lows of a life lived habitually on the edge of chaos.
It is not just a football story. It is an extraordinary human story.
Journal Entry 2 by Blaze30 at -- Train - see notes for details in -- Trains, Tube, Buses --, Greater London United Kingdom on Friday, January 16, 2009
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