Behind Closed Doors – Signed Copy

Gary Lineker and Danny Baker

ISBN: 9781529124361

£20.00

Signed First Edition hardback copy of Behind Closed Doors: Life, Laughs and Football by Gary Lineker and Danny Baker

Hand signed by Gary Lineker and Danny Baker to the title page

Signed at the publisher

 

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Description

Inspired by the No.1 podcast Behind Closed Doors

Would a pre-book team-talk be useful before we begin? A few uplifting words to take with you as you pull on the shirt, tie your boots, perform a few light stretches and get ready to go out there and read this. I ought to be able to help. I’ve sat in enough dressing rooms with enough football managers.

This book is inspired by the stories Danny and I have shared with each other about what life in football is really like. Not the dull-as-dishwater post-match interviews you sometimes see on TV, but the secrets, the superstitions, the laughs and the personalities at the heart of it all.

I’ve looked back at my playing days, prising open the dressing room door to reveal what actually happens in there, not to mention what happens in the tunnel and on the pitch and ‘ with the appropriate pixellation ‘ in the showers afterwards.

Coming at football from the other end of the spectrum, Danny shares stories from a lifetime of following the game as a fan. Both of us reflect, too, from a fair amount of time we’ve spent broadcasting about it.

From yellow cards to world cup trophies (I’ve never been awarded either of them), from the warm-up to the electric nerves of match day, you’ll find it all here, everything you always wanted to know about football, but didn’t realise that you did, including the trials of the penalty shoot-out, the pluses and minuses of open top bus parades and the things nobody tells you about shirt-swapping. There may even be one or two adventures in motivational speaking with Sir Bobby Robson. And yes, I have an inkling we will reveal what it’s actually like to share a bath with Paul Gascoigne.

Is that enough for a team talk? Now go out there and enjoy yourself!

Further Information

Format Hardback
Publisher Cornerstone
Published 19/09/2019
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