CASH, MUD, AND MADNESS: the Greatest Anecdotes of Premier League

England, 1992. Football was a wounded, cornered animal, gasping for breath in crumbling concrete stadiums. Today, it is a hyper-technological global spectacle where a single player's legs are worth more than the GDP of a small nation. What happened in between? Pure, unadulterated madness.Cash, Mud, and Madness isn't a dry encyclopedia of statistics or a sanitized account of textbook victories. It is an unfiltered journey into the heart of the most ruthless and fascinating league on the planet. You won't find spotless heroes here-only fragile men wrapped in armour of fame and millions.Discover how a university student scammed his way into a Premier League debut by pretending to be George Weah's cousin, the real story behind the slice of pizza slammed into Alex Ferguson's face, Eric Cantona's kung-fu kick to a racist fan, and the multimillionaire striker who set off industrial fireworks in his own bathroom.From rounds of stale pints in dark Yorkshire dressing rooms to Norwegian cyborgs fuelled by raw ox hearts, Robert P. Kennedy dissects how the Premier League devoured its working-class roots to sell its soul and become the world's most profitable circus.Step into the mud. The whistle has already blown.

Pagina's: 146, Paperback, Independently published