What Happens to Footballers When the Game’s Up?
Irish author Alan Gernon’s first book ‘Retired: What Happens to Footballers When the Game’s Up’ has already made the long list for eir Sport Sports Book of the Year and Niall Quinn, who provides the foreword, has called it ‘the most important football book in a long time.’ Here, Alan gives a taster of his work which gives an incredible insight into what happens to players when the curtain comes down on their careers.