Born to Score [Paperback]

The sensational parts of this book have received extensive publicity in the pages of the News of the World. Roy Keane suggested Yorke's motive for penning an autobiography may be a shortage of money. However, Yorke ends his story expressing the hope that a club would provide him with one final season, hope which disappeared in 2009. He might have been better staying in Australia rather than returning for one last hurrah with Sunderland.

The book's title was chosen to match Yorke's playboy image. Birds, Booze and Bed seem to have been his main form of relaxation. When he wasn't playing on the pitch he was playing around off it, most recently with two women before the pregnancy of one made him decide where his responsibilities lay. He also had a well publicised relationship with Katie Price which resulted in the birth of his first son. Price accused Yorke of showing a lack of interest in the boy, who has a variety of disabilities, an accusation which Yorke denies. He considers Price's behaviour to be the main cause of the unresolved friction between them. In addition, he states he was willing to undertake a DNA test to prove (rather than disprove) he was the lad's father but decided to accept his paternity rather than undertake the test.

For those who are interested in celebrity gossip Yorke provides not only chapter and verse but commas and full stops about the various liaisons he did - and did not - have, claiming to have acted as a go between for a number of Manchester United's married players on numerous occasions. There's tales of hiding under beds, Katie Price denying him sex on their first night together while other conquests would be amazed by his ability to get out of bed "after sex to do a hundred sit-ups or press-ups". Gary Neville advised Yorke that night clubs were not the place to meet a girl to settle down with. However, Yorke was only interested in bedding down, not settling down.

Yorke has little good to say about the man management skills of several soccer bosses, including Graeme Souness and Roy Keane and while, for the most part, he praises Alex Ferguson he attributes the Scot's lack of understanding for his drift into heavy drinking when he had outlived his usefulness at Old Trafford. Graham Taylor retains Yorke's respect for spotting his talent and easing him into Premier League football.

The book opens with Yorke's account of his £45,000 watch being stolen and how he chased and then punched the guy who had it. Yorke felt the "kid had shown complete contempt and disrespect for all I had done with my life". If there is a fault with Yorke's account it's that he fails to understand living the playboy celebrity lifestyle attracts parasites looking for a quick killing just as keenly as Yorke was looking for a sexual quickie. One is left with the impression that he thought the world revolved around him and considered women were there for his pleasure. In that respect Yorke appears to have inherited his father's womanising tendencies.

Yorke concludes that life's "far too precious to be lost to bitterness and fighting" but his inability to understand the wider impact of his behaviour cannot hide his failure to consider the interests of others is one of the reasons for the bitterness and fighting. Katie Price's acrimonious divorce from Peter Andre (whom Yorke describes as a muppet) suggests the fault is not all one way. Martin Swain, who appears to have ghost written the book, has done a superb job of allowing Yorke to express his feelings freely. The result is a better than average sporting autobiography and, in all probability, an accurate picture of the man who always had a smile on his face. With that amount of scoring perhaps it's not surprising!! Five stars for a good read.

This book is an Excellent read, Some Stories that leave you Amazed. this man has had the life that most of us can only dream of, Some of the stories about the football and the Women He Bedded are Hilarious, Only Yorkie Could do it, Highly RECOMMEND

Dwight Yorke is the epitome of the playboy footballer who enjoyed himself to the fullest, on and off the pitch. This book reveals all u know and don't know about the carribean kid whos charm and carefree life took him from poverty to riches beyond his wildest dreams. Things start from his early life in tobago, sun sea sand football and cricket to england, Australia and back again in the opposite direction. This book has it all, story of luck, chicks, glory, Man utd, treble, turbulent relationship with Jordan/Katie, love for his son Harvey, living it up in Australia partying his life away, tragedy, world cup glory with T&T etc etc. A fun and enjoyable read from start to finnish. Highly recommended.