Gary Lineker

Skilfully crafted – there is not much more you can ask from a biography * Patrick Barclay * I have full admiration for Gary’s career, both as a goal-scoring footballer and tv front man presenter... Neither role is easy and simple. -- Bob Wilson OBE Gary figured out the secret of goalscoring – where to move, when, and what to do when he got there. Few have grasped it so well. * Alan Smith * Chris Evans has done the hard yards on Lineker’s football career, talking to former team-mates, reporters and several football managers, and taking us in some detail through long-forgotten games, a hat-trick here, a goalless defeat there, but faithfully detailing the life of a hard-working footballer at the highest level. * Roger Alton, The Times * A detailed and well-written biography about the fastest brain in the box. * Barry Davies MBE * Full of pace and style, just like its subject, this book is a vivid, nostalgic reminder of Lineker’s greatness as a player in his golden years * Leo McKinstry * This account is like Lineker the player: fast-paced and never short of entertainment * FourFourTwo * [A] fantastic book about a brilliant life ... immensely readable * Paul Ross, talkSPORT * Evans has done the hard yards on Lineker’s football career … faithfully detailing the life of a hard-working footballer at the highest level * The Sunday Times * Superb ... a brilliant, insightful read from the first page to the last. * Daniel Taylor * Evans has written the comprehensive biography of probably the most prominent figure in English football of the last 40 years. Lineker has been in our lives for as long as many of us can remember, and this tells his story brilliantly. * Nick Miller *