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Stan - Tackling My Demons (Paperback, New Ed)
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Stan - Tackling My Demons (Paperback, New Ed)
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Loot Price R282
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The searingly honest and at times harrowing autobiography of the
former Liverpool, Aston Villa and England striker. Exposes the dark
and often seedy world hidden behind the glamorous facade of
professional football. 'I was a mess. I couldn't get out of bed. I
couldn't structure my day properly. I couldn't face having a shower
or getting dressed. Those all seemed like major events I didn't
want to confront.' Once the most charismatic and expensive player
in the new Premiership flooded with cash, Stan Collymore had, by
the age of 28, booked himself into The Priory to treat his
depression, close to self-destruction and unable to get his head
round playing at all. Along the way, he had been the goalscorer
nobody wanted to congratulate, the centre-forward no one knew how
to manage, a deeply reluctant star in a tabloid culture that saw
him make the front pages as often as the back, and that waited for
him to crack up or lash out. When he eventually did, it was,
infamously, inevitably, at his then celebrity girlfriend, Ulrika
Jonsson. But then retired from football in 2001 and finding himself
in the commentary box, he proved he did care about the game, rather
too much perhaps, sounding like a fan as much as an ex-player - and
at a stroke he had more in common with the rest of the nation. He
knew it was all so much more than a game, and what happened on the
field was only a reflection of what was going on inside players'
heads. The contradictions remain. A man, who had a steady stream of
celebrity women falling at his feet, shamed by his voyeurism in a
Cannock car park; a star with everything who was once discovered by
his wife tightening a belt around his neck; a loving dad of two
whose own father walked out of the marital home and who Collymore
continues to blot from his memory to this day; a footballer who
abstains from drugs, yet who needs therapy at Sex and Love Addicts
Anonymous; the loner slated for his aloofness who found critical
acclaim as a football pundit on national prime-time radio. This is
Stan Collymore's own life story, the real person on his flawed
character and personal demons, telling it like you have never seen
before - raw and uncut.
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