Product Description

'I think that Frank Worthington summed my life up quite well when he said, "Stan has spent all of his money on gambling, booze and birds." I responded to that: "Well, at least I didn't waste it!"' Stan Bowles was one of the greatest players of the golden age of English football, the 1970s. But like many of his contemporaries, he was probably as famous for his exploits in the bar or at the race track. Indeed, his chronic addiction to gambling led him to blow upwards of quarter of a million pounds. Packed with irreverent and entertaining anecdotes the book covers the ups and downs of Bowles' career, from his childhood in a prefab in Manchester, his early days at Man City, spent hanging around with the likes of George Best as well as the notorious Quality Street Gang, his heyday at QPR, and the unhappier times at Forest and Leyton Orient. STAN BOWLES, MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY is an unflinchingly honest account of a sporting legend.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #10556 in Books
• Published on: 2005-04-07
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 384 pages

Review
'Bowles emerges from the book as he emerged from his career, a likeable rascal rather than a rogue.' --When Saturday Comes magazine

'Stan the Man is still a legend... A fascinating snapshot of the 1970s and a look at the lifestyle of a football maverick.' --Shoot! magazine

Review
'Bowles emerges from the book as he emerged from his career, a likeable rascal rather than a rogue.' (WHEN SATURDAY COMES )

'Stan the Man is still a legend... A fascinating snapshot of the 1970s and a look at the lifestyle of a football maverick.' (SHOOT )

'Another enigmatic waster whose exploits might have diminished his game but bolstered his autobiography.' (KENSINGTON TIMES )

SHOOT
'Stan the Man is still a legend... A fascinating snapshot of the 1970s and a look at the lifestyle of a football maverick.'

Customer Reviews

Stan Bowles - a review
A cracking auto-biography of one of the last great mavericks of the game.Stan drank and gambled his way through a fortune,was often at loggerheads with managers,directors and team mates but some how it never seemed to get in the way of him performing on a saturday afternoon.In this honest and frank account of his life Bowles tells it how it really was - the great days at QPR,the rows with Cloughie,the punch ups with Malcom Allison and how he has lost a fortune at the track.
So go on and buy a great book from one of the unsung heroes of the game.
I bet you enjoy it (no pun intended!)

Absolutely Hilarious
This is one of the finest sports autobiographies I've read. Forget the sanctimonious preaching of Tony Adams or the neuroptic tics of Tony Cascarino, this is a footie book as footie books should be - full to the brim of cracking and absolutely hilarious anecdotes. Bowles comes across as being likeable and honest, and obviously a real character - the kind that football seem to have lost these days.

A man of my time
Thoroughly entertaining and an eyeopener to me who watched Stan at his peak when I was interested enough in football to go to the matches - ah yes those were the days!