A Life in Football: My Autobiography

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In 1996, he starred in a Nike commercial titled "Good vs Evil" in a gladiatorial game set in a Roman amphitheatre. With Arsenal he lifted the Premier League title, both the major domestic cup competitions, and the European Cup Winners Cup.

Despite the fact that his international career spanned eight years, 87 matches and three full-time managers, he only started 17 times and was a used substitute in 16 matches. There is so much detail about his rise to success and how the premiership operated in those early years, I learnt a lot! Please Note: By their very nature, all signed books will have been handled several times before they get to you.

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.

Since October 2020, Wright has co-hosted his own podcast, Wrighty's House, on The Ringer FC, with a rotating panel of guests including Musa Okwonga, Ryan Hunn, Jeanette Kwakye, Flo Lloyd-Hughes, Carl Anka and Mayowa Quadri. p>Read about how we’ll protect and use your data in our Privacy Notice. It’s like a Jamie Vardy style story, although he says it is different because Vardy played in non-league for years, whereas Wright was playing Sunday league - so Wright’s story is more impressive. I remember seeing him at both cup finals in recent years with his Arsenal scarf, despite his media commitments he still had time for us when we chanted his name.K. and preventing them from being thrown away into landfill by getting them back into the hands of book-lovers across the world. Wrighty's characteristic honesty means his book is far more engrossing than most bland football autobiographies. How you can have two polarising opinions about a person / event in the same book, sometimes a few sentences apart is beyond me and grew frustrating with each occurrence. He did become one of us though and I do wish he was in this current side, as all we really need is a lethal finisher and goal poacher. Ex footballer Ian Wright plots his rise from a South London Council Estate to Summariser on ‘ Match of the Day.

When compared to his own home life as a child, you understand the personal trials and tribulations going on inside the man; with the lack of a father figure and a troublesome stepfather.

So many people on here are so wrapped up in their Wenger-hate they simply give the Wigged bastard and Gazidis a free pass, because they think to blame anyone except for Wenger is to somehow be seen as pro-Wenger - which is fucking ludicrous beyond belief. What really surprised me about him is that he grew up a Millwall fan Which is surprising given his later Palace connections and Millwall's. Even as a Manchester United fan, I have always been an admirer of Ian Wright largely because I was a striker for most part of my schoolboy days and Ian Wright caught the eye with a style of play and enthusiasm that wouldn’t be out of place in the school playground or street football court. It's almost perfect and the only small flaw I could find was that there's some repetition across different chapters - but again this is authentic in how people speak as each chapter is like it's own story, so it references other stories in other chapters.

Wright involved with ambitious Ashford" Archived 12 August 2013 at the Wayback Machine NonLeagueDaily. They've got no one to relate to on TV and that's why I've said to them I don't want to do the England games any more. He also appears every Tuesday on The Debate on Sky Sports' Premier League channel, once again teaming up with Kelly Cates.

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. 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. While at Arsenal he shared a room with Dutch footballer Dennis Bergkamp, who had a massive influence on him. He was later signed up by ITV to present his own chat show, Friday Night's All Wright, [65] where he interviewed celebrities such as Elton John, [66] Mariah Carey and Will Smith [67] which ran for two series.