Author:Ian Rush
In 2006, Liverpool fans voted Ian Rush among the top three all-time greatest players in the history of the club. Taking his place alongside Kenny Dalglish and Steven Gerrard, he surpassed football legends such as Fowler, Keegan, Owen, Smith, Carragher and Hansen. Ian Rush is quite simply Liverpool's greatest goalscorer and, along with Jimmy Greaves and Denis Law, one of the finest natural penalty-box predators the game has ever seen.
This is the story of a rough-edged Welsh teenager thrust into the ranks of an already great side, who didn't feel up to it, but who learned how to grow as a player and a man until he became the most devastating finisher in English football. Rush's story is bursting with honesty and insight, emotional turmoil and tragedy, and hilarious tales and asides. It is a near-mythical tale of triumph and tragedy. Of an era when Liverpool FC became nigh on invincible, made the League title their own, and rode the highs of European and FA Cup Finals alongside the devastating tragedies of Heysel and Hillsborough. The drama of Rush's time at Liverpool during the 80s - the decade that defined the club more than any other - is thrillingly captured in this autobiography, which takes you into the thick of the action, as well as offering a frank and insightful analysis of football today.
Hits the spot like a Rushie toe-poke in front of the Kop
—— Four Four TwoFor fans of the Reds this book will not disappoint. Discussing the many highs and lows he encountered, there is much to appreciate
—— Irish ExaminerIntriguing
—— Glasgow HeraldStylishly written, admirably well-researched
—— ScotsmanWonderful. Captures the contradictions of this complex personality as eloquently
as it elucidates his genius
Barclay tells his story and in doing so describes the way the game has changed over the years. We see the famous temper in action, but also a more reflective, generous side
—— Colin Waters , HeraldA firm but fair biography of a footballing legend
—— GuardianDo we really need another biography of Sir Alex Ferguson?...the answer is unequivocally in the affirmative
—— Independent on SundayYou'll be hard-pressed to find a book that will tell you as much about the intimidating character and gives such a revealing insight into the legend of British football that is Sir Alex Ferguson
—— Football Fan CastBest Sports Biography of the Year
—— MetroAn extraordinary and powerful cautionary cry.
—— KirkusBrilliant. . . one of the most unnerving books you will ever read
—— NewsweekBuford creates with the majesty of a Tom Wolfe the ultimate price paid by so many for this footballing fever - the Hillsborough disaster, recalled with electrifying eloquence and power
—— Time OutA grotesque, horrifying, repellent and gorgeous book; A Clockwork Orange come to life.
—— John Gregory DunneA very readable, often funny, book.
—— The EconomistHis prose is tough and vivid
—— IDBuford pushes the possibilities of participatory journalism to a disturbing degree . . . Among the Thugs does severe damage to the conventional wisdom that England and Europe are bastions of civilization.
—— New York TimesBuford's book is important in that it offers a far more compelling explanation for the football violence than any offered by the pundits of Left and Right . . . Had Buford's account been written by a tabloid reporter or an academic sociologist it might be more easily dismissed. That is comes from a highly intelligent observer, and a neutral outsider with no axe to grind, makes his book all the more powerful and yet troubling.
—— Michael Crick , IndependentBuford’s accounts of the thugs he moved with are by turns amazing, repugnant, stunning, horrid and exhilarating.
—— HowlerThe defining book on England’s hooliganism
—— Simon Parkin , Guardian
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