Dub Sub Confidential
A Goalkeeper's Life with – and without – the Dubs
«Four decades after Eamon Dunphy published Only a Game?, his seminal book on football, John Leonard has produced the Gaelic football equivalent - only it's better ... This strikingly blunt and honest portrait of the bizarre goings-on in the GAA world includes astute observations not just on modern sport but also modern life.»
Sunday Times Sports Books of the Year
Dub Sub Confidentialis a book about how Gaelic games collide with real life. It brings us inside the Dubs' dressing rooms, training methods and drinking sessions; it traces the exquisite agony of playing second fiddle to a great keeper who never got dropped; and it tells of how John Leonard finally got sober and figured out how to live. Les mer
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Dub Sub Confidentialis a book about how Gaelic games collide with real life. It brings us inside the Dubs' dressing rooms, training methods and drinking sessions; it traces the exquisite agony of playing second fiddle to a great keeper who never got dropped; and it tells of how John Leonard finally got sober and figured out how to live. It is a brilliantly honest and vivid read from a remarkable personality.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 240
- ISBN
- 9780241971666
- Utgivelsesår
- 2016
- Format
- 20 x 13 cm
Anmeldelser
«Four decades after Eamon Dunphy published Only a Game?, his seminal book on football, John Leonard has produced the Gaelic football equivalent - only it's better ... This strikingly blunt and honest portrait of the bizarre goings-on in the GAA world includes astute observations not just on modern sport but also modern life.»
Sunday Times Sports Books of the Year
«As fascinating as its insights into the Dublin dressing room and the big matchdays are, to reduce Dub Sub Confidential to being just a sports or GAA book is to do it an injustice; it is an astonishing, exceptional, visceral account of a confused young man»
Kieran Shannon, Irish Examiner
«Reads like Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas ... a great read»
Ray D'Arcy, RTE Radio 1
«John Leonard's brutally honest account of a road less travelled and his time as understudy to iconic Dubs keeper Stephen Cluxton transcends sport.»
Irish Independent
«Engaging, honest, sad and frightening in places - ultimately raw and real. Couldn't put it down»
Ryle Nugent, RTÉ
«Outstanding. Can't recommend it highly enough. Instant classic.»
Joe Molloy
«The overall feeling of Leonard's sporting life is of a high-wire act. He somehow managed to have a part-time romance with Dublin football while full-bloodedly chasing whatever and whoever was on offer in Dublin after dark ... There is an antic and often jubilant energy to Leonard's writing»
Keith Duggan, Irish Times
«Remarkable ... a stark and searingly honest memoir»
the42.ie
«Students of Gaelic football will be intrigued by his account of the rivalry with Cluxton, arguably the most important player of modern times»
Sunday Times
«A great read. Honest and really well written»
Conor McKeon
«A fine read»
Damian Lawlor
«Compelling and ground-breaking»
Dave Hannigan, Evening Echo
«A must read»
Loaded, Top 10 Books of 2015
«Searingly honest; funny and sad at the same time»
Gavin Cummiskey