Product Description

Perry Groves spent over a decade in the footballing spotlight. Sometimes he was at the top, often he was at the bottom and that's half the reasons the fans loved him so much - and still do. This is the most truthful and hilarious book about professional football you will ever read. Perry Groves was the first signing by the legendary Arsenal manager George Graham, and that unmistakeable figure with his Tin-Tin haircut and cheeky grin was a player in one of the Gunners' greatest sides. Now, he has decided to tell all about his rollercoaster years of booze binges, girl-chasing and gambling sprees. He's a non-stop fund of hilarious anecdotes, recounting top-flight games played with a hangover, 125 mph motorway chases with international stars, visits to a brothel with an England World Cup hero and revealing how one drunken escapade ended with a group of internationals being questioned over an attempted murder charge. This is a unique chance to find out what top-flight footballers really get up to off the field and how they behave when the dressing room door is closed.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #38912 in Books
• Published on: 2006-10-20
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 288 pages

About the Author
PERRY GROVES was born in Bow, East London, in 1965 and made his first team debut for Colchester at 16. He signed for Arsenal in 1986 and spent six years at Highbury. His career was ended by injury at Southampton when he was just 28. He lives in East Anglia and works as a sports development manager. He has two teenage sons. JOHN MCSHANE worked as a reporter in Fleet Street covering the Middle East conflict, the troubles in Northern Ireland and civil war in Africa, before becoming associate editor at the Daily Mirror and the Sunday Mirror. He is married with three children and has homes in London and Spain.

Customer Reviews

Are you watching Ashley Cole ?
Perry Groves is the best illustration of having a modicum of talent, a giant heart, thrilled to get a break and play for the Club you supported as a boy..And be the ultimate two tick pony. El Pel, Tintin, Ginger with the red baboon face, terrible ginger marine haircut, too tight shorts was famed for running up and down the touchline chasing lost causes and giant throw ins.

As Gooners he was just not cool but we took to him because he was like a competition winner who got to live the dream. He was you and I.

Perry couldn't pass, dribble, tackle but he could just run, a true Forrest Gump of First Division football.

He won two major trophies, set up the winner in the 1987 Littlewoods Cup Final and played at Anfield as a sub.

We will tell our grandchildren about him, jokes will be cracked in 30 years time among Arsenal fans. He is a living cult figure. Buy the book, here is a happy and content man, not using his book as a vehicle to whine and whinge at a Club who gave him his dreams. Good on you Perry........... Ashley who ?

Top Stuff
Perry Groves...truly, a man amongst men. Hardly the greatest footballer in the world, at least Perry knew his limitations and didn't try to be anything other than what he was. The book is frank, self-deprecating and a thoroughly entertaining read, unlike most football autobiographies.

Number 1 is Perry Groves
What an excellent book. Forget the "take yourself too seriously, I wouldn't get out of bed for less than 65 grand a week" prima donna stories and buy this book.

Tales of Mick Hartford and Steve Foster, that night at Anfield and the ginger sub's role in the most famous Arsenal goal of all time, pre-season "bonding" trips, "Peanut" Jimmy Carter not being able to hold his booze with disasterous effects for Perry's trouser legs, playing chicken on jet skis, the Tuesday club and Rodders before he took himself too seriously, the Merse and all.

Buy this book now. Cashley is being well and truley outsold, now on to Fat Frank.