{"product_id":"how-to-be-a-footballer-9781785039782","title":"How to Be a Footballer","description":"\u003cb\u003e**Winner of the 2018 Telegraph Sports Book Awards Sports Bestseller of the Year**\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Very funny on almost every page, wonderfully self-deprecating and very sharp on the ludicrous behaviour of the modern player' - \u003ci\u003eSunday Times \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'The funniest man in British sport' - \u003ci\u003eMetro\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eFeatured on BBC Radio 2 with Chris Evans \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eYou become a footballer because you love football. And then you are a footballer, and you're suddenly in the strangest, most baffling world of all. A world where one team-mate comes to training in a bright red suit with matching top-hat, cane and glasses, without any actual glass in them, and another has so many sports cars they forget they have left a Porsche at the train station. Even when their surname is incorporated in the registration plate. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSo walk with me into the dressing-room, to find out which players refuse to touch a football before a game, to discover why a load of millionaires never have any shower-gel, and to hear what Cristiano Ronaldo says when he looks at himself in the mirror. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWe will go into post-match interviews, make fools of ourselves on social media and try to ensure that we never again pay  250 for a haircut that should have cost a tenner. We'll be coached and cajoled by Harry Redknapp, upset Rafa Benitez and be soothed by the sound of an accordion played by Sven-Goran Eriksson's assistant Tord Grip. There will be some very bad music and some very bad decisions. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eI am Peter Crouch. This is \u003ci\u003eHow To Be A Footballer\u003c\/i\u003e. Shall we? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eCan't get enough of Crouch? Tune into \u003ci\u003eThat Peter Crouch Podcast \u003c\/i\u003eon Radio 5 Live\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ebury Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/25\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781785039782\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.53lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.70h x 4.90w x 0.90d","brand":"Peter Crouch","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42059276648629,"sku":"9781785039782","price":21.24,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_78263692-caf1-409a-b6d6-10117254e5ac.jpg?v=1650342246","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/how-to-be-a-footballer-9781785039782","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}