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The Game: Player. Pundit. Fan.

by Micah Richards

A football memoir from the dressing room outward

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A football memoir from the dressing room outward

Micah Richards frames professional football as an experience more complicated than its television image. Drawing on his time with Manchester City and England, he recounts episodes from training, dressing-room life and broadcast punditry alongside milestones such as a Premier League title. The book also makes room for the less celebratory parts of a playing career: injuries, the end of regular football income, and the financial and mental preparation that transition demanded. Anecdotes involving figures including Roy Hodgson, Roberto Mancini, Fabio Capello, Mario Balotelli and Roy Keane place Richards’s personal story within a recognisable era of English football.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Fans of Premier League and England football
  • Readers interested in footballers’ lives beyond matchday
  • Sports memoir readers interested in career transitions and injury

Themes

Professional footballDressing-room cultureManchester City and EnglandInjury and retirement planningFootball media

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Book overview

'The game isn't what it seems from the outside. The game isn't quite what I was expecting. The game doesn't always work like the people on television think it does. The game is better, worse and stranger than you can imagine, and that is coming from someone who saw it all with their own eyes.'

Ever wondered what really goes on inside a Premier League dressing room, what it's like to train under Roy Hodgson, Roberto Mancini and Fabio Capello - and what happens when you kick a sandwich at one of them?

When it comes to football, former Manchester City and England star Micah Richards has seen it all - and laughed about most of it. In The Game, Micah shares his funniest and frankest stories from on and off the pitch, be it arriving at his first England training session with two left boots, attempting to supervise the infamous Mario Balotelli or winding up Roy Keane on Super Sunday. From how he spent his first Premier League paycheque and how he prepared - financially and mentally - for the day they stopped coming, to the euphoria of lifting the Premier League trophy and the physical and emotional impact of injury, Micah reflects openly on the many wins and losses in professional football.

Full of Micah's signature cheeky wit, this intimate, unmissable memoir goes behind the scenes of the beautiful game and a remarkable life and career.

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