{"product_id":"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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eFeatured on BBC Radio 2 with Chris Evans \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI am Peter Crouch. This is \u003ci\u003eHow To Be A Footballer\u003c\/i\u003e. Shall we?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCan’t get enough of Crouch? Tune into \u003ci\u003eThat Peter Crouch Podcast \u003c\/i\u003eon Radio 5 Live\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Peter Crouch","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback Trade paperback (US)","offer_id":52333237043360,"sku":"9781785039782","price":9.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/8637\/5072\/files\/BNCImageAPI_a4f52ca2-44ca-4090-85fd-3e8f3ca31aaa.jpg?v=1742072453","url":"https:\/\/rivendell-books.com\/products\/9781785039782","provider":"Rivendell Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}