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Boozing, Betting & Brawling: The Autobiography of Mel Sterland
by
Mel Sterland
,
Nick Johnson
Boozing, Betting & Brawling is the autobiography of former footballer, Mel Sterland, who played for Sheffield Wednesday, Glasgow Rangers and Leeds United. He was also capped once by England. The book which is co-authored by Sheffield-based journalist, Nick Johnson, opens with Sterland recounting plans to commit suicide after being forced into premature retirement from
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Hardcover
,
240 pages
Published
August 11th 2008
by Green Umbrella Publishing
(first published January 1st 2008)
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This is quite a good book, especially if you are into football and are therefore familiar with both Mel Sterland and the other players/characters who crop up in the story. What I found quite interesting with the book is how Mel lived his life before the English Premiership started and when the football world went money mad. When he retired due to injury he didn't have millions in the bank and had to get a proper job. Which to me is unthinkable with the amount of money the modern day players get.
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Mel Sterland was one of the greatest players to ever grace Sheffield Wednesday.Sure he wasn't a hugely skillful player but if you asked any Owl to name their best ever team, then Mel would make the bench. A little unfair maybe, but he did have Roland Nillson follow him.
Originally he was a hated player amongst the Kop as Big Jack used to try to play him up front. A switch to right back proved the key Mel needed and he soon won over those sceptical fans with some no holds barred displayed. I'm sur ...more
Originally he was a hated player amongst the Kop as Big Jack used to try to play him up front. A switch to right back proved the key Mel needed and he soon won over those sceptical fans with some no holds barred displayed. I'm sur ...more
In a no holds barred account of a footballer's career and troubled retirement, Mel Sterland wears his heart on his sleeve. There are some glorious anecdotes although the sub-Loaded laddishness does pall quite quickly. Amazingly open for a book of this kind - most footballer's autobiographies are anodyne. Several well known figures come in for strident criticism. Sterland was a really under-rated right back in his time for Sheffield Wednesday and Leeds.
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