One: My Autobiograhy, by Peter Schmeichel

‘Why me? How could a boy from a Copenhagen tower block say I want to be a champion with Manchester United and Denmark and make it happen?’

Peter Schmeichel is a giant of football, who won more Premier League titles (five) than any player in his position and captained Manchester United in the incomparable, last-gasp Treble-clinching win over Bayern Munich in the 1999 Champions League final. ‘I don’t believe a better goalkeeper played the game,’ Sir Alex Ferguson said. 

In it, he takes us inside the remarkable, winning environment of a club that transformed football during the 1990s, and onto the pitch on that crazy, breathless night in Barcelona in 1999. From Ferguson’s unique gifts to Eric Cantona’s unique personality, he delivers a close-up and insightful portrait of United’s golden era.

However, One: My Autobiography goes way beyond the pitch.

Schmeichel has an incredible family story to tell, starting with his father, Antoni, a brilliant Polish jazz musician who battled demons and for years kept a momentous secret from those around him. And he explores what he has been able to pass on to his own son, Kasper – himself a Premier League-winning goalkeeper and number one in the Danish national side.

Peter’s life after football, seldom straightforward, is described with astonishing candour. One: My Autobiography is about football, origins, journeys and legacy.

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Life In A Jungle, by Bruce Grobbelaar

Bruce Grobbelaar is the most decorated goalkeeper in Liverpool FC’s 125-year history.

And yet, question marks have followed him around; question marks about his goalkeeping suitability after arriving on Merseyside; question marks about his integrity after match-fixing allegations were laid against him. Here, Grobbelaar takes you to Africa, where nothing is at it seems; he takes you back to an era when Liverpool ruled Europe; he takes you to the benches of the Anfield dressing room, where only the strongest personalities survived. For the first time, he takes you inside the courtroom, detailing the draining fight to clear his name.

Banksy: The Autobiography of an English Football Hero, by Gordan Banks

For 10 years Gordon Banks was not only England’s Number One but the best keeper in the world – perhaps the best there’s ever been.

He helped lead England to a legendary World Cup victory, and his iconic save from Pele will go down in history as one of the greatest ever made. But with the countless triumphs there also came tragedy; just months after being named footballer of the year his career was abruptly cut short when a car accident left him blind in one eye.

This is more than just a football story: it’s the story of a man who represents all that was admirable about the game in a golden era.

A story of a genuine English hero and a stirring, insider account of the England team’s finest years.

The Gloves Are Off: My Story, by Paddy Kenny

He is the larger-than-life figure who bounced back from rejection at 16 and graduated from parks pitches to become a Premier League goalkeeper and later represent his country.

Paddy Kenny’s career was certainly not straightforward… just like his life. In his autobiography, Kenny lifts the lid on his time on and off the football field – including dressing-room rucks, being beaten for the Premier League’s most famous goal and having his eyebrow bitten off in a curry house, just days before he faced Cristiano Ronaldo, Wayne Rooney and Manchester United. This is Kenny’s story… and the gloves are well and truly off.

Shay: Any Given Saturday, By Shay Given

SHAY GIVEN is one of the game’s good guys: An Irish hero and Premier League marathon man whose goalkeeping career has spanned three decades.

He has played in World Cups and FA Cup finals; shared a dressing room with football greats like Roy Keane, Alan Shearer and Robbie Keane and worked under celebrated managers like Kenny Dalglish, Bobby Robson and Martin O’Neill.

But Shay has had to show courage and strength of mind to get where he wanted in life. At four years old, he cruelly lost his mother to cancer at the age of just 41. Mum Agnes’s dying wish was that Dad Seamus would keep the family together. Seamus kept his word and the Given clan watched with pride as Shay forged a record-breaking career in the sport he loved.

From Donegal to Saipan, Glasgow to Wembley and Tyneside to Paris, it’s been some journey. Shay has seen it all. Glorious highs and desperate lows. Dressing room wind-ups and team-bonding punch-ups. Brutal injuries and crippling self-doubt.

Along the way, he has made so many friends. When one of his closest pals Gary Speed died suddenly in 2011, he was devastated. He played on, doing the only thing he knew to get him through the pain pulling on a shirt and a pair of gloves. Shay loves football for him, nothing can beat the buzz of a Saturday afternoon or the thrill of a big match night under lights. But he has never lost touch with the fans who make the game what it is.

Entertaining, opinionated and inspirational, his long-awaited autobiography ANY GIVEN SATURDAY features a stellar cast of famous football names from the past 25 years. It tugs at the heart strings, bubbles with banter and lets slip secrets behind the big stories. This is a rare journey behind the scenes as told by one of our own.

The Madness Is On The Pitch, by Jens Lehmann

Jen’s Lehmann has been in the top tiers of European football for 23 years!

In this candid autobiography, Jens Lehmann reflects on his 23-year playing career as an elite goalkeeper, performing at the pinnacle of European and International football. In a career spanning four decades, Lehmann was twice voted Europe’s best goalkeeper. He won league titles in both England and Germany, and the UEFA Cup with his boyhood club Schalke.

This extraordinary sportsman has now taken stock to write about his career. Imparting his own dry humour, Lehmann takes us from Schalke to rivals Borussia Dortmund, via Milan. From there he moves to Arsenal before his career comes to a close with Stuttgart in Germany.

The Last Line, by Packie Bonner

Irish national hero, a Celtic great and their most-capped player, Patrick ‘Packie’ Bonner is a goalkeeping legend.

He was Jock Stein’s last signing for the club when he left his native Donegal for the city of Glasgow in 1978, where Packie evolved from being a shy, homesick teenager into a confident, world-class talent and first-choice goalkeeper. Billy McNeill handed him a debut on St Patrick’s Day in 1979, and Packie went on to provide the last line of defence a record 641 times for the club. A seasoned Irish internationalist, Packie was a vital component in the most-celebrated Irish national squad ever, playing in a golden era under the tutelage of the inimitable Jack Charlton.

In The Last Line, Packie shares stories from his incredible career, including his greatest moment in front of a global audience during the Italia ’90 World Cup tournament when he became the penalty shoot-out hero of the nation by saving a spot-kick that took the Irish to the quarter-finals stage in their very first World Cup adventure.

It was an iconic moment that would change his life forever not least because, whilst in Italy, he, along with his teammates, had an audience with another goalkeeper, Pope John Paul II.

Throughout his 80 caps international career, he competed against the very best in the world. Men such as Ruud Gullit, Marco Van Basten, Gheorghe Hagi, Roberto Baggio and Gary Lineker came to know the name, Packie Bonner. Equally, in his glittering Celtic career that included the winning of four Scottish League titles, three Scottish Cups and one Scottish League Cup, Packie Bonner played alongside some great Celtic names like Tommy Burns, Paul McStay, and Murdo Macleod.
Along the way, Packie had to endure a career-threatening back injury, as well as the devastation of a routine save going wrong and costing a goal on the world stage against Holland in 1994, ultimately leading to elimination from the World Cup in America.

More than just the telling of trophies, titles and triumphs, this is the story of a Celtic legend and a true great of Irish International football.

The Autobiography, by Peter Shilton

Peter Shilton is a legend in football. One of the greatest goalkeepers to play in this country, his 25 clean sheets in one season at Nottingham Forest, and 67 throughout a lengthy international career are landmarks in the modern game.

He started out at 15 with Leicester City, achieved fame at Stoke City, then won two European Cups and a League Championship medal with Forest. He’s played in numerous World Cup campaigns (both successful and unsuccessful), was the keeper involved with Maradona’s ‘Hand of God’, and, aged 40, was still playing with Derby County in the First Division while representing England at Italia ’90.

Throughout the nineties he became increasingly embroiled in gambling and related problems which culminated in near bankruptcy. The full story of his financial difficulties, numerous anecdotes concerning the likes of Brian Clough, Peter Taylor and Sir Alf Ramsey; in fact an entire three decades in football is covered in just under 400 pages.

Safe Hands, by David Seaman

David Seaman has been at the centre of the most successful Arsenal side of the postwar period.

He has also made the England goalkeeper’s position his own with a succession of superb games as both player and captain, not least with heroic performances at the focus point of the high-tension penalty shootouts that have dogged England’s progress in recent international competitions. As with Alex Ferguson’s number one bestselling autobiography, this will be a celebration of one of the most successful and high-profile careers in the domestic game. Published in Seaman’s testimonial year at Arsenal (where he is second only to Tony Adams in terms of popularity) this is the story of one of the best-loved people in sport.

Awarded the MBE for services to Sport, a true sportsman with a spotless record and a reputation as one the games most thoughtful characters, Seaman’s extraordinary popularity with both his club supporters, England fans and the population at large, remains enormous. A genuine national sporting hero, his appeal stretches beyond the world of football.

Budgie, The Autobiography of Goalkeeping Legend John Burridge, by John Burridge

John ‘Budgie’ Burridge is a true journeyman pro and a hero to football fans up and down the country.

In a unique career spanning 30 years, Budgie played 771 league games for 29 teams and became the oldest player ever to appear in the Premier League. Highly respected as a goalkeeper, but denounced by many as an ‘oddball’, Budgie was famous for the madcap antics. And the Burridge story was far from over when he finally retired in 1997, at the age of 47. He lapsed into depression and spent months in the Priory Clinic as he struggled badly to cope with the void in his life. He then became player-manager at non-league Blyth Spartans – only to be convicted for dealing in counterfeit leisurewear.

Together with his wife of more than 30 years, Budgie moved to Oman to take up a coaching post with the national team. He sustained serious injuries when he was knocked down by a car in 1999, but is back in rude health and is now a TV pundit and newspaper columnist. Burridge is still fascinating and funny to this day, and this tell-all autobiography reveals the truth behind his astonishing football career.

There To Be Shot At, by Tony Coton

Tony Coton is considered as one of the best goalkeepers never to play for England. In There to be Shot At, he tells his extraordinary life story for the first time.

Born in Tamworth, Coton overcame rejection at Aston Villa and Wolverhampton Wanderers to claim legendary status at three other clubs during a career in football that is now well into its fourth decade.

Tough and uncompromising, Coton was regarded as one of the infamous ‘Birmingham Six’ group during his time as the number 1 at the club he supported as a boy, Birmingham City. He joined Watford during Elton John’s tenure as chairman, where his relationship with future England manager Graham Taylor bloomed.

Coton, though, would not represent his country and here, he explains why. Six tumultuous years at Manchester City ended when he moved to fiercest rivals Manchester United, where he later was appointed as Sir Alex Ferguson’s first goalkeeping coach during the most successful period in the club’s entire history.

A reflective man with strong views on the direction of modern football, Coton deals with the minutiæ of goalkeeping: what it takes to succeed, how to improve – whether, as commentators say, you really need to be mad to be one.

In Where It Hurts, Bryan Gunn

Autobiography of popular ex-Norwich and Scotland goalkeeper Bryan Gunn, one of the great heroes of the game who, since hanging up his gloves, has raised hundreds of thousands of pounds for leukaemia charities in memory of his daughter Francesca. Foreword by Sir Alex Ferguson.