Similar to his previous two books, and in his typical comedic charm style, Peter provides anecdotes from his playing days to shed light on some of the characters he has encountered behind the scenes of some of English football’s biggest clubs. Just as there are books being written to be turned into screenplays, there are definitely books that are written to be listened to as opposed to read. Considering Crouch is a successful podcaster, it's not surprising that it is such clear audio book material. Football star turned bestselling author Peter Crouch joined The Chris Evans Breakfast Show with Sky to talk about his fourth book, How to be an Ex Footballer.

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The former Liverpool and Spurs player added: “I totally understand the buzz, and when you’re in it every single day, it’s hard to get out of that.” As previously mentioned at the end of my first ever book review, I have happily returned for a third instalment by every football fan’s favourite robot podcast host. Peter Crouch’s 3rd book is another examination of the lives of football players presented in Crouch’s inimitable style. Crouch is an adequate TV pundit, no better or worse than some of his colleagues on BT Sports, but what he does have that some of the others don’t have is a sense of humour. You get the impression he doesn’t take himself too seriously. For that reason he is one of the more entertaining of the bunch. If you don’t agree with his assessment of the game he’ll still make you laugh. man-children are thrown out into the real world, utterly defenceless apart from their multi-million-pound bank accounts.Otherwise, it’s a really interesting look into a number of other peoples post-football careers and pretty touching at times too.

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This was a decent book and certainly there were some touching moments as well as laugh out loud moments.The first truly insider guide to being a Premiership footballer, from Britain's funniest sporting icon Important for audiobook listeners, this book is NOT narrated by Crouchy unlike his others. He’s in the prologue and epilogue, but the rest is narrated by someone else entirely. Crouch uses each of his chapters to discuss a different subject. Where in previous books this would have been topics such as teammates, managers or tactics and told from his own personal experiences; in comparison and as mentioned in the title, this book focuses on the period once the money stops, the crowds go silent and the boots are hung by their laces to answer the question “what does a retired footballer do?”.