There isn't a funnier sports book this year - there might not be one for the next decade

Irish Times Books of the Year

Terrific. You will love it. Raw and tender and wild and honest, it will captivate you . . . great stories pack the pages

Sunday Independent

A rollercoaster ride and a great read. It's hard not to love Roddy Collins after reading <i>The Rodfather</i>

- Tadhg Coakley, Irish Examiner

Se alle

Excellent and hilarious

Second Captains

Hard to imagine there'll be a more entertaining sports book for quite a while

Irish Times

A riot!

- Brendan O'Connor,

Fascinating and hilarious. Starts with a bang and never falters. Anarchic and wonderful

- Joe Brolly,

Fantastic. Can't remember a sports book with so many stories to propel it along. There's at least three different movies in it

- Malachy Clerkin,

Candid tales of football, family and everything in between - it's no surprise The Rodfather's memoir is just brilliant

Irish Independent

A big man, with big emotions, and a big life . . . a fascinating read

Sunday Independent

What a great book <i>The Rodfather</i> is. A walk on the wild side of football - and a few other games - terrifying and yet massively entertaining. Paul Howard is the best writer in the country

- Declan Lynch,

Really fabulous

Pat Kenny Show

[<i>The Rodfather</i>] might be the funniest book written since Roddy Doyle's <i>The Van</i> . . .<i> </i>There's a laugh on every page

Irish Examiner

The hilarious memoir from the funniest man in football!

Roddy Collins is a football man - now in the sixth decade of a career as a player (at sixteen clubs), manager (twelve clubs) and commentator. And he is a funny man: an unequalled raconteur with a sharp eye for the absurdities of the professional game and spectacular recall. He has made friends wherever he has gone, along with some high-quality enemies. When John Delaney said he could get Roddy a job if he'd just stop criticising him, Roddy replied that he'd 'rather dig holes in the road'.

Now, with the brilliant Paul Howard, Roddy puts it all down on paper for the first time - the adventures, the rows and the craic - in what is not only one of the funniest but also one of the most eye-opening books ever written about professional football.

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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780241995242
Publisert
2023-05-18
Utgiver
Vendor
Penguin Books Ltd
Vekt
251 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
129 mm
Dybde
20 mm
Aldersnivå
01, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
336

Biographical note

Roddy Collins (Author)
Roddy Collins grew up in Cabra, on the north side of Dublin. In his long career as a player and then manager, he was often injured, many times sacked, and constantly on the move - but somehow always on the right side of football history. Now a beloved pundit and football personality, Roddy Collins lives in Dublin with his family.

Paul Howard (Author)
Paul Howard is a journalist, author and comedy writer best known as the creator of the No 1 bestselling Ross O'Carroll-Kelly series. He has won a record four Irish Book Awards and is a former Irish Sports Journalist of Year and Irish Newspaper Columnist of the Year.