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From The Brink - The Autobiography |
| By
Paul McGrath |
Publishers
Century |
2006 |
| Paul
McGrath is Ireland's best loved sportsman and also its least
understood. An iconic football presence during a professional
career stretching over 14 years, he played for his country
in the European Championship finals of 1988 and the World
Cup finals of 1990 and 1994. But, behind the implied glamour
of life in the employ of great English clubs like Manchester
United and Aston Villa, McGrath wrestled with a range of destructive
emotions that made his success in the game little short of
miraculous. That story has until now never been told. It is
a story that runs from a hard, hidden childhood spent in Dublin's
orphanages all the way to the pain of two marriage break-ups
and the struggle to cope with life after football. Quite apart
from his all too public struggle with alcoholism, the story
runs through the surreal highs and calamitous lows of a life
lived habitually on the edge of chaos. It is not just a football
story. It is an extraordinary human story that is certain
to surprise with its candour. Here, for the first time, read
about the father he never met; the mother whose love never
died; the routine loneliness and ritual bullying endured by
a black kid growing up behind closed doors in 1960s Dublin;
the emotional breakdown suffered on leaving that institution;
the recovery that - remarkably - brought him all the way to
Old Trafford; the rollercoaster ride that followed. Here,
the guilt, fear, self-loathing are all laid bare in a story
fired with hope and determination for the future. It may well
be the most candid sports book ever written. Released Oct
06. |
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Ooh
Aah Paul McGrath - The Black Pearl of Inchicore |
| By
Paul McGrath & Cathal Dervan |
Publishers
Mainstream |
1994 |
| Sought
after autobiography of the cult hero defender. Has a few pops
at Sir Alex ! A foreword by his drinking partner, Bryan Robson. |
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