They don't make footballers - and football autobiographies like this any more. The brutally honest, warts-and-all memoir of the talismanic Everton football legend, a notorious hardman and reformed bad boy, the like we may never see
again. Praised by Wayne Rooney and Sir Alex Ferguson as one of the greatest and most passionate players to ever play the game, Duncan Ferguson, or Big Dunc as he is known, is larger than life in every sense. A towering 6’4 inches, old-fashioned centre forward, from the moment Ferguson broke through in British football in the 1990s, he was front and back page news. On the pitch, fans loved him for his roguish charm and his total commitment in every game. Fighting tooth and nail, he was a born leader and took no prisoners. Like his rival Roy Keane, he played close to the limit, and often crossed it. Such as the time he was sentenced to 3 months in Glasgow’s toughest prison for headbutting an opponent – the first and only time a footballer has ever gone to jail for a crime committed on a football pitch. Off the field, he was just as likely to be seen
drinking with fans as he was at training.
From life in prison, to battling alcoholism, partying with African princes and Liverpool gangsters, fighting burglars, to going bankrupt, and then eventually turning his life around through his beloved Everton F.C., BIG DUNC: The Upfront Autobiography, for the first time, sheds light on one of football’s most charismatic but enigmatic and flawed characters. Ferguson is now a pillar of the community in Merseyside, giving back to stricken children who share a similar tough upbringing to his own. This is the story of Ferguson’s rollercoaster ride, and his journey to redemption. Buckle up.
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