He is straightforward, takes names, points fingers, but hardly speaks with malice, lauds the greats he worked with, and remains upbeat for most parts of the book.

The majority of pages are undamaged with some creasing or tearing, and pencil underlining of text, but this is minimal.

The program was an experiment with the prison authority with an eye to expanding it to other prisons if it was successful. A thoughtful and gripping insight into one of the greatest sports starts of recent years, Ian Wright also frankly discusses how retirements affects footballers, why George Graham deserves a statue and his experience with racism. Wright appears in the Apple TV+ series Ted Lasso, alongside Seema Jaswal as the co-host of the fictional sports show, Forza Love of the Game.

With exquisite wit and a distinctive voice, Ian frankly discusses, among other things, how retirement affects footballers, why George Graham deserves a statue, social media, the importance of music, racism, breaking Arsenal's goal-scoring record, and of course, what he thinks of Tottenham. In each of the seven seasons that followed the 1990 World Cup, Wright never scored fewer than 23 goals a season for his club. More than an autobiography from one of the most loved footballers of the past decade, this book is an essential bedside companion for every Arsenal fan. There’s other topics like his relationships with his family, and his thoughts on racism in football and the organisation Kick It Out. Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH).His troubles with people representing him and opinions about how Black people are treated are also given a lot of inches. Of course, I lost the ball quite a few times because I was so nervous and when I did McMahon really laid into me, loudly saying things like, ‘For fuck’s sake, who are these players? Throughly enjoyed this book as Ian gives an intimate look into his life story and his thoughts on many issues within English football and culture. Since his retirement from football, Wright appeared as a pundit on BBC Sport's International Match of the Day and has been a pundit for the 2002 and 2006 World Cups and Euro 2004.

Biography: Ian Wright, MBE, is an English former professional footballer, turned television and radio personality. This may result in small marks to the dustjacket and title page, please also bear in mind that each signature will be a little different from the one we show here. He's not worried about being totally honest about the people we all know in the football or media world, whether good or bad.I find football autobiographies that are purely chronological quite tedious through the childhood years and even this book dragged in part 2 where Ian fills us in on the areas of life that took him to Palace in the late 80s. Wright said of the incidents, "I felt I was caught up in a war crisis in Kosovo not involved in a football result that wrecked John Barnes' career as Celtic manager.

He started in the 2–0 victory against Cameroon at Wembley [42] and helped England reach the finals of Euro 1992 in Sweden. Ian Wright is such a humble and honest guy who really takes you on a short journey where he tells you his life in and outside Football, the friends he has made, the mistakes he has made and all the good things that come along with it. I wouldn’t do something like that to somebody, in fact very few players would, and it was something I never really forgot.

He made his final international appearance, a month later, in a friendly against the Czech Republic at Wembley. With Arsenal he lifted the Premier League title, both the major domestic cup competitions, and the European Cup Winners Cup. Place of Publication London Date Published 2016 Pages 376 Keywords Non Fiction Autobiography Ian Wright Footballer Size 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. When you consider he raised Shaun (who was not his own) and did so well with his other kids, it's a testament to the man.