How NOT to be a Football Millionaire - Keith Gillespie My Autobiography

Keith Gillespie, a Northern Irish winger who played in the English leagues, tells how he rose from a working-class background to earning large sums in professional football while still a young man. The book looks at the lifestyle that came with sudden money, the choices that drained his savings, and the long struggle to rebuild afterwards.

Read more

Candid and often self-deprecating, it is as much a warning about money as an account of a career on the pitch.

Audience
adult

Click a tag to see books like this one that share it. Point at it (on a phone, tap it) for less of it instead.

Read it? Sign in to help tag it.

Liked How NOT to be a Football Millionaire - Keith Gillespie My Autobiography? Here’s where I’d start.

These suit anyone who liked How NOT to be a Football Millionaire - Keith Gillespie My Autobiography. Sign in and mark a few books for picks shaped around your own taste.

  1. Back From the Brink: The Autobiography Shares sport, football, sports
  2. How Not to Be a Professional Footballer Shares sport, football, nonfiction
  3. Full Time: The Secret Life Of Tony Cascarino Shares sport, football, nonfiction
  4. Barca: A People's Passion Shares sport, football, sports

“People who read How NOT to be a Football Millionaire - Keith Gillespie My Autobiography tend to reach for these next.”

  1. Stillness and Speed: My Story
  2. Craig Bellamy: GoodFella
  3. Addicted
  4. An Epic Swindle: 44 Months with a Pair of Cowboys

“If you want more of the same (biography about sports), start with these.”

  1. Nigel Mansell: My Autobiography
  2. The Final Call: Hockey Stories from a Legend in Stripes
  3. They Call Me Assassin
  4. It's Only a Game

“If it was the sport that hooked you, try one of these.”

  1. The Way It Was
  2. Farewell But Not Goodbye
  3. Gullhanger: Or How I Learned to Love Brighton and Hove Albion
  4. Arsene Wenger: The Inside Story of Arsenal Under Wenger

“These start from a similar idea, even if they go somewhere else with it.”

  1. Friends with Benefits
  2. Red Machine: Liverpool FC in the '80s: The Players' Stories
  3. Fantasy Man: A Former NFL Player's Descent into the Brutality of Fantasy Football
  4. The Stone Cold Truth