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We All Live in a Perry Groves World (Hardcover)

by Perry Groves (Author), John McShane (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 288 pages
  • Publisher: John Blake Publishing Ltd (20 Oct 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1844543196
  • ISBN-13: 978-1844543199
  • Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.8 x 2.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 226,074 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Perry Groves spent over a decade in the footballing spotlight. Sometimes he was at the top, often he was at the bottom and that's half the reasons the fans loved him so much - and still do. This is the most truthful and hilarious book about professional football you will ever read. Perry Groves was the first signing by the legendary Arsenal manager George Graham, and that unmistakeable figure with his Tin-Tin haircut and cheeky grin was a player in one of the Gunners' greatest sides. Now, he has decided to tell all about his rollercoaster years of booze binges, girl-chasing and gambling sprees. He's a non-stop fund of hilarious anecdotes, recounting top-flight games played with a hangover, 125 mph motorway chases with international stars, visits to a brothel with an England World Cup hero and revealing how one drunken escapade ended with a group of internationals being questioned over an attempted murder charge. This is a unique chance to find out what top-flight footballers really get up to off the field and how they behave when the dressing room door is closed.


About the Author

PERRY GROVES was born in Bow, East London, in 1965 and made his first team debut for Colchester at 16. He signed for Arsenal in 1986 and spent six years at Highbury. His career was ended by injury at Southampton when he was just 28. He lives in East Anglia and works as a sports development manager. He has two teenage sons. JOHN MCSHANE worked as a reporter in Fleet Street covering the Middle East conflict, the troubles in Northern Ireland and civil war in Africa, before becoming associate editor at the Daily Mirror and the Sunday Mirror. He is married with three children and has homes in London and Spain.

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42 of 43 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Are you watching Ashley Cole ?, 18 Nov 2006
Perry Groves is the best illustration of having a modicum of talent, a giant heart, thrilled to get a break and play for the Club you supported as a boy..And be the ultimate two tick pony. El Pel, Tintin, Ginger with the red baboon face, terrible ginger marine haircut, too tight shorts was famed for running up and down the touchline chasing lost causes and giant throw ins.

As Gooners he was just not cool but we took to him because he was like a competition winner who got to live the dream. He was you and I.

Perry couldn't pass, dribble, tackle but he could just run, a true Forrest Gump of First Division football.

He won two major trophies, set up the winner in the 1987 Littlewoods Cup Final and played at Anfield as a sub.

We will tell our grandchildren about him, jokes will be cracked in 30 years time among Arsenal fans. He is a living cult figure. Buy the book, here is a happy and content man, not using his book as a vehicle to whine and whinge at a Club who gave him his dreams. Good on you Perry........... Ashley who ?
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20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Top Stuff, 21 Nov 2006
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Perry Groves...truly, a man amongst men. Hardly the greatest footballer in the world, at least Perry knew his limitations and didn't try to be anything other than what he was. The book is frank, self-deprecating and a thoroughly entertaining read, unlike most football autobiographies.
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Number 1 is Perry Groves, 30 Nov 2006
What an excellent book. Forget the "take yourself too seriously, I wouldn't get out of bed for less than 65 grand a week" prima donna stories and buy this book.

Tales of Mick Hartford and Steve Foster, that night at Anfield and the ginger sub's role in the most famous Arsenal goal of all time, pre-season "bonding" trips, "Peanut" Jimmy Carter not being able to hold his booze with disasterous effects for Perry's trouser legs, playing chicken on jet skis, the Tuesday club and Rodders before he took himself too seriously, the Merse and all.

Buy this book now. Cashley is being well and truley outsold, now on to Fat Frank.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Not a world to be admired
First let's get out straight away that this is not great literature, but then it never sets out to be that.

Upon finishing this book I had mixed feelings. Read more
Published 3 months ago by G. Hill

1.0 out of 5 stars Poor. Very poor.
The best thing I can say about this book is that it didn't take up too much of my time to read it. Groves comes across as a boorish dislikeable fool, a washed up poor excuse for... Read more
Published 6 months ago by Mr. S. A. Davenport

5.0 out of 5 stars Perry Groves we salute you
I actually remember Perry Groves as being a pretty decent player - he may not have been Denis Bergkamp, Andrei Arshavin or even Rocky Rocastle but he was a tireless midfield... Read more
Published 8 months ago by Barney McGrew

2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointed Arsenal fan
Perry Groves enjoyed a five-year spell in the limelight at Arsenal (1986-1991), before injury forced him to wind down prematurely in the reserves and at Southampton. Read more
Published 11 months ago by Mr. Andrew W. Paxman

4.0 out of 5 stars Utterly compelling.
I recived this book about a week ago along with my new arsenal members pack. And finished reading it only a day or two after starting. Read more
Published 12 months ago by L. Upton

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent read
This book just goes to show that you don't need to be a star or an
international to write a good story about life as a professional
footballer. Read more
Published on 17 May 2007 by VM

4.0 out of 5 stars Funny, Whitty Insight To An 80s/90s Unfashionable Footballer
A good book, yes a quick read, but a good quick read.

Funny throughout and a good insight into the life and times of an unfashionable player, playing with a big... Read more
Published on 27 Feb 2007 by Mr. I. J. Houghton

1.0 out of 5 stars Wanted to like it. Didn't.
What's not to like about a C-list Arsenal player writing a book that out-sells Ashley Cole's whinge?

Plenty, unfortunately. Read more
Published on 5 Feb 2007 by D. W. Kessler

5.0 out of 5 stars Ginga Ginga Ginga!!!
I am not an Arsenal fan but i am a football fan. If your in the same boat please do yourself a favour and BUY THIS BOOK!!! Read more
Published on 24 Dec 2006 by SUNDERLAND TILL I DIE

4.0 out of 5 stars Well done Tintin
I only really bought the book as part of an 'unofficial campaign' to outsell 'Cashley', so I was pleasantly surprised to find it was actually a good read. Read more
Published on 17 Dec 2006 by A. Laher

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