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In the blood : my life in and out of football / Pat Spillane with Michael Moynihan.

By: Spillane, Pat [author.].
Contributor(s): Moynihan, Michael [author.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Dublin : Gill Books, 2023Copyright date: ©2023Description: 340 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : portraits (colour) ; 24 cm.Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780717197521 (hardback ).Subject(s): Spillane, Pat | Gaelic football playersDDC classification: 796.337092 SPI
Contents:
Family matters -- Templenoe: the home place -- Living next door to the Bishop -- Stopping the All Blacks in their tracks -- The Klondyke of seventies Ireland -- Learning the ropes -- Unbeatable -- Rats and rehabilitation -- Bonus territory -- Football: how the past informs the future -- Dwyer -- The men in the dressing-room -- Practice doesn't makes perfect, perfect practice does -- The Sunday game: apologising to the nation -- The Sunday game: everyone's a pundit -- Reality and rural Ireland -- Under the microscope -- The people who count.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Barcode
General lending MTU Kerry North Campus Library First Floor Main 796.337092 SPI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 38888000928287
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Pat Spillane is one of the best-known sportspeople in Ireland. Selected for the GAA's Team of the Millennium and winner of eight All-Ireland senior football medals, he is one of the greatest Gaelic footballers ever. Yet that isn't half of the Spillane story.

He has also been one of the most controversial GAA pundits of all time, driving the agenda on The Sunday Game and in The Sunday World for thirty years. His analysis and criticism have been headline news everywhere Gaelic football is discussed, and the terms he coined, such as 'puke football', have entered the Irish lexicon.

Here, Pat reveals the sadness of his childhood when his father died; his dazzling football career and encounters with other immortals, from Mick O'Dwyer onwards; the reality of life as pundit under pressure from managers; and the huge stress of dealing with the machinery of government in the aftermath of his spell with CEDRA, the state advisory group on rural affairs.

Like the man himself, In the Blood is uniquely frank, witty, honest and revealing - and a must-read for GAA fans everywhere.

Family matters -- Templenoe: the home place -- Living next door to the Bishop -- Stopping the All Blacks in their tracks -- The Klondyke of seventies Ireland -- Learning the ropes -- Unbeatable -- Rats and rehabilitation -- Bonus territory -- Football: how the past informs the future -- Dwyer -- The men in the dressing-room -- Practice doesn't makes perfect, perfect practice does -- The Sunday game: apologising to the nation -- The Sunday game: everyone's a pundit -- Reality and rural Ireland -- Under the microscope -- The people who count.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Patrick Spillane is an Irish former Gaelic football pundit and player. His league and championship career at senior level with the Kerry county team spanned seventeen years.

Michael Moynihan is an editor with the Irish Examiner, an author and documentary-maker. He lives in Cork with his wife and children.