Fowler: My Autobiography

Robbie Fowler

Jan 2009 · Pan Macmillan

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Fowler: My Autobiography is a personal and honest account of a phenomenal life in football by goal-poacher Robbie Fowler.

Pronounced as the greatest goal scoring talent since Jimmy Greaves, seventeen-year old Robbie Fowler was immediately catapulted to fame and fortune. The thin, baby-faced Toxteth lad, who had trampled the same streets as the rioters, was now a millionaire, an idol and inspiration to every kid who kicked a football. Yet his incredible potential was never quite realized. Injuries and persistent rumours of drug abuse and depression meant that though Fowler remains one of the most celebrated of Premiership stars, he never became the world-beater so many predicted.

This is a fascinating and unbelievably frank insight into the beautiful game, taking us behind the closed doors of professional football to expose what really happens at both club and international level. This is a truthful and candid account of an incredible career, examining not just the records and the glory, but the low points and the miseries of a footballing life that many people now believe somewhere, somehow went wrong.

Brilliance and controversy have stalked Robbie Fowler from his five goal performance in only his second full game for Liverpool, to his snorting of the touchline in the Merseyside derby. In this utterly compelling autobiography, Robbie Fowler looks back on what was, what wasn’t and what might have been. This is the story of one of the game’s true icons, and the story of the modern game itself.

Autoren-Profil

Robbie Fowler was first signed to Liverpool in 1992, on his seventeenth birthday, where he scored an amazing 171 goals in 330 matches. In 2001 he signed for Leeds, but struggled with injury and joined Manchester City two years later. He was the winner of the Young Player of the Year in both 1995 and 1996 and has been capped by England twenty-six times. Fowler: My Autobiography is his candid account of an incredible career. He is married with three daughters.