“I thought it would be easy - Lar Corbett, Hurler of the Year, All Ireland winner, three goals in the final. The crowds will surely flock into the pub.”
Surely his admission that he’s unable to write would mean there’ll be a stewards enquiry if he wins this? Usually these prizes stipulate that it should be the writer’s own work?
Damian Lawlor ghost wrote it i believe.
The title is incredibly apt. Tis all in me Head.
Did Cusack win it a few years ago? That book was rubbish too.
I liked Oisin McConvilles one, a good read I thought. Disappointed by Dan Shanahans one. Most GAA autobiographys are not great - Brian Cody’s is meant to be as dull as ditch water.
Brian Cody’s book was extremely wrong. :shakefist:
Dan Shanhan probably had too much input in his book thus making it fairly wrong.
i thought Donal Og’s book was okay tbh, so that probably makes me wrong :lol:
And how in God’s name could you expect it to be anything else?
Do some lads expect GAA autobiographies to be interesting? Most of them are no different from the other, unless there’s a startling revelation like Donal Og coming out. They’re no different to the clatter of rugby players autobiographies I’d guess.
Fair point, it’s just after winning so much you’d imagine there would be something interesting in it. Anyone who read it just says it is an absolute load of tripe. Then again when you hear Cody in any pre or post match interview I should not be surprised.
The characters are dying away in the GAA. All about dull, mundane, cliche ridden “obviously we’re delighted, even though we won by 20 points it was a tough battle out there and we had a bit of luck.”
Most sports autobiographies are boring and rubbish.
You need to read the ones by the less successful/slightly insane lads. Cascarino’s is superb. McGrath’s. I’d like to read the one by former Man City hardman Andy Morrison. Liam Dunne’s is a good read, though it pains me to say it. There’s a heap of good ones.
If Brian Cody wrote me a letter, I’m not sure I’d be arsed reading it. How the fuck could anyone expect his book to be any use.
Wouldnt say that. If the player/manager was boring and rubbish, the book usually is. But there are a lot of decent ones. I loved Maradonas one, the fact he called out so many people and just told it like it was. If he thought someone was a cunt, he called them a cunt.
Written by friend of the forum and enemy of Rachel Wyse, Ewan McKenna.
Yourself and Thraw are right I know, there are some great reads out there, but for the amount of sports autobios that come out most of them ARE boring and rubbish. I’d say +90% of them from Irish sportspeople anyway. The amount of rubbish GAA and rugby ‘stars’ books is insane. Who the fuck decided to publish a Leo Cullen book and what was wrong with them?
Zlatans book is an easy and interesting read. Worth reading alone for the yarns he tells about Mino Raiola
Again, 90% of sportspeople are boring and rubbish. Writing a book wont make it any better. To be honest, I have rarely read any GAA biographies, and no rugby ones. I wouldnt use twitter that much, but I wouldnt follow any of the GAA lads on that either, from what I have seen its usually the same same inane shit you would guess they would all write about.
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Go easy on him Mac, he’s suffered enough from you.
The ******** cunt :shakefist:
The “young one” Dermot is seeing in Fair City at the moment. Wrong.