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Craig Brown - The Game of My Life Kindle Edition

by Craig Brown (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
3.8 3.8 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
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Craig Brown was the first Scotland manager to take his side to the European Championship and World Cup Finals in succession. He began his career as a professional footballer and was a member of Dundee's championship winning side in 1962, the only time the club has ever won the title. However, a knee injury brought a promising career to a premature end, and it was to be as a manager that Craig's talents really shone through. In this autobiography, he talks about the thrills and spills of this relentlessly demanding job and takes us behind the scenes, into the dressing room with its tensions, decisions and celebrations.
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    John Blake
  5. Publication date
    February 28, 2013
  6. Reading age
    13 years and up
  7. File size
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00ALU7HBO
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ John Blake (February 28, 2013)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 28, 2013
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1552 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 449 pages
  • Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1904034136
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.8 3.8 out of 5 stars 13 ratings

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3.8 out of 5 stars
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jawj
1.0 out of 5 stars There are TWO Craig Browns
Reviewed in the United States on January 15, 2022
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I thought I was buying the autobiography of the humorous British jourrnalist. It turns out there's a football player of the same name. Who knew football players wrote autobiographies?
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CaroleQ
4.0 out of 5 stars The game of my life
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 1, 2019
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Craig Brown - The Game of my Life.

Craig Brown is a former professional footballer whose career was cut short because of a knee injury. He moved into coaching and managing and after a few assistant roles became manager of Clyde FC. He then moved into an assistants role to Scotland manager Andy Roxburgh before becoming manager in his own right after Roxburgh resigned. He led Scotland to the 1996 European Championships and the 1998 World Cup. He resigned as Scotland manager in 2002 and in later years managed Preston, Motherwell and Aberdeen.

As football autobiographies go this one was not bad. It is rich in detail and gives an insight into football in the 1960s in a way that no other book I have read does. It is also full of interesting anecdotes many of which are quite self deprecating to the author. For example when he was a player with Rangers he was wanted by Dundee but Rangers were reluctant to transfer him. This was not because of his playing value to the team but because he was an integral part of the club golf team and they needed him for that role.

This is almost entirely focused on football with little or only fleeting references to his personal life. There is mention of his marriage, children but nothing beyond that. Instead there is both description and analysis of the demands placed on a football manager particularly an international manager. Long hours, constant travelling, press and media demands, club and player expectations on a day-to-day basis. The pressure is significant and brings with it its own consequences. In the later stages of the book Brown describe going to Buckingham Palace to receive an honour. He describes his then adult children accompanying him but there is no mention of his wife. One is left to wonder if his marriage was one of the consequences from the job?

Brown comes across as a likeable, outgoing person though it is worth considering that in all autobiographies the subject is seen from their own perspective. There is evidence of a prickly person at time based on his own description so the content has to be seen as being subjective rather than objective. However it is worth considering that he is the last national team manager to take Scotland to international finals. It is over twenty years since Brown did this and at the time of writing there is little indication that this unfortunate trend will becoming to an end. What is constant though is the negative contents from many of the media about Scotland’s lack of progress. In Brown’s time it was about Scotland’s failure to make the later stages of a tournament. These days it’s all about our inability to qualify for the tournament at all. Ironically in some instances the complainers are the same people. Their complaining skills are well honed now.

Definitely one for the anoraks.
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