"Playing Away" chronicles the off-field antics of football's numerous bad boys, whose behaviour has succeeded in moving football from the back page to the front. From Best to Sven, from Allison to Sir Alex, it is the definitive guide for fans, agents, managers and even unsuspecting partners. As well as recording current scandals including Sol Campbell's gay denials and Ferguson's South African set-up, it puts the record straight on long-running rumours and half-remembered scandals. The myriad revelations include: the bedhopping exploits of 1960s and 1970s superstuds Malcolm Allison, George Best, Alan Hudson and Frank Worthington; the 1980s excesses of Pat Van den Hauwe, Mark Dennis and Peter Shilton; the 1990s naughtiness of Viv Anderson, Bryan Robson and John Barnes; and the post-Millennium madness of cross-dressers Dwight Yorke and Mark Bosnich and the daftest love rat of the lot, Gary Flitcroft.
- ISBN13 9781903813065
- Publish Date 23 September 2004
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 23 February 2016
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Cutting Edge Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 272
- Language English