Product Description

Mick Quinn, the boy from a Liverpool council estate dubbed 'Little Beirut', always loved his birds, booze and betting. They said Mick had a sixth sense for great accuracy in his playing days - he could find a party from any range. Quinn says he only put GBP50 on each race - but liked to stay in the bookies for twenty races a day! Sentenced in 1987 to three weeks in prison for twice driving whilst banned, Mick's been accused of punching Peter Schmeichel on the pitch and John Fashanu off it. On retirement, though, Quinn switched to the Sport of Kings, but controversy led the blue bloods of racing to hang the scouse oik out to dry and he was suspended from training for two and a half years. Who Ate All The Pies? is the funniest and most honest football book you'll read for a long, long time.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #15906 in Books
• Published on: 2004-03-11
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 288 pages

Scotland on Sunday
‘An outrageous biography devoted to life and times in which the naff, naughty and nefarious come together in buttock-clenching fashion’

Nuts
'Top autobiography from one of football’s true lads'

Shoot Monthly
‘A cheeky but brilliant read.’

Customer Reviews

To read in the toilet
Sorry,don't agree with the other reviews. Quinn comes across as someone who is obsessed with own ego and very limited talent. The fact that he has landed himself in trouble so many times also suggests a very poor intelligence. In the end you get the strong impression that this was someone who got lucky by pure fluke. You are also left with the overwhelming feeling that if he'd won the lottery he'd have pissed it up the wall in a few months. The book reads like a tabloid newspaper and is definitely one for the bog, where you can have a quiet snigger at someone who thinks they are rather special, when actually they are not.

A 'mighty' good read
An honest and humorous account of a cheeky scouse footballer who made the most of his natural goalscoring talents despite burning the candle at both ends.
Quinn scored goals wherever he played his football and became a cult figure at all the clubs he played at despite not exactly looking like the model athlete,hence the chant of 'who ate all the pies' by opposition supporters.
Quinn was widely regarded by most of his managers as being the most naturally gifted a goalscorer they had ever worked with and that,coupled with his self confidence and obvious love for the game earned him a decent living out of the game,well enough to go to the bookies and boozer most days anyway.
His love of a gamble and a chance to let his hair down with his mates is covered in some detail along with his attempts to become a racehorse trainer,his love of horses even stronger than his love for football.
Mick Quinn certainly lives life to the full and lives for today rather than worry too much about the future and his book,whilst not the most challenging of reads,is an entertaining one all the same.

Amusing alternative biography
Mr Quinn enjoyed the trappings of a footballer, money, booze, women, beting and horses. And he played football as well. What makes this unusual is that the focus is on the bit of football you don't often read about, the sex, the injuries caused by clowning around, the jokes and enjoying life to the full. A light but honest touch with a bit of family tragedy thrown in just when we get too comfortable.
Well worth reading as an alternative to the usual footballer biography but it does have its down side. Quinn does repeat himself a lot and there are areas (such as mentioned by a previous reviewer) that he does not explore in sufficient detail. I would have liked to had a better view on the Jocky Club ban but this was glossed over.