Selected Product: | Football and Gangsters: How Organised Crime Controls the Beautiful Game Paperback Edition: New edition Author: Graham Johnson Publisher: Mainstream Publishing Release Date: August 2007 ISBN-10: 1845962478 ISBN-13: 9781845962470 List Price: £7.99 Average Customer Rating: | | The Devil: Britain's Most Feared Underworld Taxman ISBN-10: 1845961781 Druglord: Guns, Powder and Pay-offs ISBN-10: 1845962400 Powder Wars: The Supergrass Who Brought Down Britain's Biggest Drug Dealers ISBN-10: 1840189258 Cocky: The Rise and Fall of Curtis Warren, Britain's Biggest Drugs Baron ISBN-10: 0953084779 Wild Thing: The True Story of Britain's Rightful Guv'nor ISBN-10: 1845962699 |
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Recently, a proposed book dealing with the seamier side of Wayne Rooney's story, Roo Unzipped, was strangled at birth through fear of legal action, but there is plenty here to reveal the dark side behind the boy wonder (little of it of his own doing, to be fair...but the people who surround him are a different matter).
I guess football and crime are both 'bloke' preoccupations, so female readers might get a little bored, but I for one found it (to coin a literary word that sounds as though it ought to have been a football word) 'unputdownable'.
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