Fowler

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By Robbie Fowler

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Paperback (Hardback)

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Football, Biography, Robbie Fowler, Liverpool FC, Leeds United FC, Manchester City FC, England

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Further Details

• Published: 5th May 2006
• ISBN: 0330437631
• Pages: 352

From the Publisher:

Pronounced as the greatest goalscoring 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 realised. 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.

From the Book:

“Fowler on..... attitude
I've always had this idea that you only shout your mouth off when you've got something to shout about, if you do it at all. Later in my career, I've been in England sides in warm-up matches and these kids have come in, and acted like they owned the f***ing place, and played as though everyone should give them the ball, and they'll never pass it back because they are so good. None of them can pass a ball three yards anymore, because they just want to beat twelve men and shoot every time. And you're thinking, they couldn't lace the boots of some of the other players

Fowler on..... drugs
It does happen in football, just like it happens everywhere else. There are players who have admitted to taking them, like Paul Merson and Gazza, and then there have been quite a few who have been caught like Adrian Mutu. I think they catch twenty or thirty a year, taking some drug or another.That's because they test us all, and that includes me. I've been tested loads of times, probably more than most in fact, no doubt because of all the rumours. I've got no problem with that. I reckon I've been tested every year since I came into the game and I've got absolutely nothing to hide.

Fowler on.....Man City

At Manchester City, the fans hated me. F***ing hated me. I arrived with this big price tag and a big reputation, and I was hopeless. I don't mind admitting it either. I was crap when I first got there. You don't mean to be crap of course, you don't think, Right I'm going out there and I'm gonna be f***ing shit today. With me, I think every game this is going to be the one, I'm going out and I'm going to be brilliant, score goals and everyone will be chanting my name. But for a long time at City, it didn't happen for me.”