Up Front

My Autobiography

Nonfiction, Sports, Football (Soccer), Biography & Memoir
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Author: Kerry Dixon, John Terry ISBN: 9781786063007
Publisher: John Blake Publication: January 1, 2016
Imprint: John Blake Language: English
Author: Kerry Dixon, John Terry
ISBN: 9781786063007
Publisher: John Blake
Publication: January 1, 2016
Imprint: John Blake
Language: English

Big, blond and a goal-scoring machine, Kerry Dixon delighted Chelsea and England fans during the 1980s. Yet his fall from grace, from the pinnacle of a playing career that had few equals, has been, by his own admission, spectacular. Kerry's life in recent years has been bedeviled with problems with gambling, drugs and, worst of all, a prison sentence in 2015 after he was convicted of grievous bodily harm following a fight in a pub. At that point, he finally hit rock bottom. His memories of playing in a more robust era of the game, before the days of multi-million-pound salaries and all the rest of the modern circus, will appeal to plenty of nostalgic fans, as well as to all those who remember him as one of the game's all-time greats. Equally, his unflinching recollections of his darkest days, culminating in his time in prison, are about as far from the Beautiful Game as anyone can imagine, and as fascinating as they are sometimes uncomfortable. In the end, however, his stunningly successful career at Chelsea has ensured that he remains loved by fans, despite his troubles. The world is all too familiar with tales of once-famous sportsmen and women falling from grace. Kerry Dixon's story, however, is unique at once for its flashes of humor in adversity, its clear-eyed reflections on a different age, when leading players could all too easily be treated as disposable, and for its humility. For Kerry Dixon, as this often moving autobiography shows, the only way is up.

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Big, blond and a goal-scoring machine, Kerry Dixon delighted Chelsea and England fans during the 1980s. Yet his fall from grace, from the pinnacle of a playing career that had few equals, has been, by his own admission, spectacular. Kerry's life in recent years has been bedeviled with problems with gambling, drugs and, worst of all, a prison sentence in 2015 after he was convicted of grievous bodily harm following a fight in a pub. At that point, he finally hit rock bottom. His memories of playing in a more robust era of the game, before the days of multi-million-pound salaries and all the rest of the modern circus, will appeal to plenty of nostalgic fans, as well as to all those who remember him as one of the game's all-time greats. Equally, his unflinching recollections of his darkest days, culminating in his time in prison, are about as far from the Beautiful Game as anyone can imagine, and as fascinating as they are sometimes uncomfortable. In the end, however, his stunningly successful career at Chelsea has ensured that he remains loved by fans, despite his troubles. The world is all too familiar with tales of once-famous sportsmen and women falling from grace. Kerry Dixon's story, however, is unique at once for its flashes of humor in adversity, its clear-eyed reflections on a different age, when leading players could all too easily be treated as disposable, and for its humility. For Kerry Dixon, as this often moving autobiography shows, the only way is up.

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