TITLE: |
Gory Tales - John Gorman The Autobiography |
AUTHOR: |
John Gorman & Kevin Brennan |
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YEAR PUBLISHED: |
2008 |
PUBLISHER: |
Green Umbrella Publishing |
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PRINTED & BOUND BY: |
J. H. Haynes & Co. Ltd., Sparkford |
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FOREWORD BY: |
Glenn Hoddle |
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ISBN: |
978-1-906229-86-3 |
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PRICE: |
£18.99 Hardcover |
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PAGES & ILLUSTRATIONS: |
212 pages containing illustrations |
SIZE: |
248 x 175 x 23 mm |
SYNOPSIS
John
Gorman's story is very much about a football man, but it is also much more than
just that. After a lifetime in the game John thought he had seen and done it
all. He had played, coached and managed at the top and experienced the harsh
realities of survival at the lower end of the scale. There was little in
professional football that he had not had to cope with. But on a cold February
day in 2006 as he gazed lovingly into the weary eyes of his dying wife, Myra, he
knew trying to maintain his ability to think clearly as a manager would be
impossible. Football had always meant so much to him, but love for his wife
meant so much more.
When her
death occurred just a few days later it was the start of one of the bleakest
periods in Gorman's life, losing one job and walking away from another, as he
struggled to cope and come to terms with existing without the woman he had loved
since their teenage years. Gory Tales starts with that traumatic time for
Gorman, expressing all the raw emotion felt by John.
Having
played alongside, coached or managed some of the biggest names British football
has thrown up during the past 40 years, John is able to offer a true insider's
view on the game he has loved since he was a kid. Jock Stein, Kenny Dalglish,
Rodney Marsh, George Best, Gazza, David Beckham and Michael Owen are all names
who have featured in his career, and Gorman's enduring friendship with Glenn
Hoddle, which began back in the 1970s when the two men were players at
Tottenham, allows John 'Gory' Gorman to give a unique insight into the private
man behind the public headlines.
John
reveals the kind of pressures and expectations that come with helping to manage
a big club like Spurs, and is able to give a behind-the-scenes insight into the
contrast of life at a big name outfit like Tottenham, compared to jobs as
manager of Wycombe, Northampton and previous experiences with Swindon Town.
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