I Am The Secret Footballer: Lifting the Lid on the Beautiful Game

US: Guardian Faber Publishing, 2013. Paperback. Very Good. This updated edition of the bestselling and wildly popular I Am the Secret Footballer features a new introduction and an additional chapter. The anony mous writer of The Guardian's "Secret Footballer" column gives Premiere Lea gue fans an insider's look into the unseen world of professional football. It is often said that 95% of what happens in football takes place behind cl osed doors. Many of these stories I shouldn't be telling you. But I will. Who is The Secret Footballer? Only a few people know the true identity of t he man inside the game. Whoever he is-and whatever team he plays for-TSF is always honest, fearless and opinionated. Here he takes readers past the lo cker-room door and reveals the inner-workings of a professional club, the e xhilarating highs and crushing lows and what it's really like to do the job most of us can only dream of doing. TSF chronicles the exploits of his Premiership colleagues with a gimlet eye and frank humour. Managers, agents and players are not spared from his observations-their mindsets, their relationships with those outside the sport, their behaviour good and bad. In his inimitable style, TSF recounts entertaining and eyebrow-raising vignettes, naming names and dropping colourful details along the way.